Edwin Díaz's suspension has made MLB's unscientific methodology regarding sticky substances a talking point again. And yet, pitchers aren't as unhappy as one might think.
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball's approach to banning, or even limiting, the use of sticky substances for pitchers is subjective and unscientific, at best. The lack of a controlled and unflappable methodology for ejecting and suspending pitchers who are deemed by umpires to have pitching hands that are too sticky became a talking point again this week after Mets closer Edwin Díaz was ejected on Sunday.
They check hands all the time,' Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said of MLB umpires. 'They felt it was a little too much. As far as sending other players to wash their hands, I think coloring has something to do with it. But not as much as the stickiness . Vic at the time felt like not only the coloring , but it was a little too sticky there. That's why he made the decision.
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