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Just in time for July 4, we've got a fresh baseball beef grilling up. Josh Donaldson has been one of baseball's most vocal critics about pitchers using sticky stuff to gain an…

Every salad needs some dressing. Bryce Harper's flowing mane has been one of baseball's most analyzed heads of hair since his arrival in the sport in 2012. With 242 career home runs,…

Rich Schultz/Getty ImagesIt took all of two days for Major League Baseball's new ban on foreign substances to go from potential embarrassment to actual embarrassment.The ban had a smooth…

Say it ain't so, Joe. Max Scherzer was checked for sticky stuff three times on Tuesday night, the second day of MLB's sweeping enforcement of its new policy against pitchers using…

Not even the best pitcher in MLB is immune from the league's new rule mandating umpires check for illegal sticky substances on pitchers' persons. And, it appears, the umpires are very…

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Gerrit Cole vs. the New York baseball writers is becoming one of MLB's best rivalries. The Yankees pitcher parried another round of questions from them about sticky substances and spin rates…

Baseball players have known for quite a while that some type of crackdown on the use of sticky substances by pitchers was coming. They just didn’t know what it would look like. What…

The next month will be a messy disaster for Major League Baseball, as the crackdown on sticky substances begins in earnest June 21.  The official release went out at noon ET on Tuesday, a…

Since the season began in April, Major League Baseball’s umpires and league officials have been collecting baseballs by the thousands. Balls from games are inspected, with the most…