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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rays pitcher <keyword id="4404384" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="tyler-glasnow">Tyler Glasnow</keyword> blamed his elbow injury on throwing without any sticky substances.</li><li>Glasnow said he had to change his grip and mechanics and woke up incredibly sore.</li><li><keyword id="133010" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="MLB">MLB</keyword> has begun a crackdown on sticky substances which Glasnow said should wait until the offseason.</li></ul>Amid <a href="https://www.insider.com/mlb-to-screen-pitchers-to-catch-people-using-banned-substances-2021-6">MLB's crackdown on pitchers using sticky substances</a> to better grip the baseball, <keyword id="1348949" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tampa-Bay-Rays">Tampa Bay Rays</keyword> ace Tyler Glasnow stood up for his preference to use such substances.Pitchers have been alleged to use substances like pine tar, sunscreen, rosin, and Spider Tack to better grip the ball. That enhanced grip allows them to have better command on their pitches, even increasing the spin rate to make it harder for batters to hit.MLB prohibits doctoring the ball in any way. As strikeouts sky-rocketed this season, the league has made an effort to crack down on the use of sticky substances.On Tuesday, Glasnow, who ranks second in strikeouts this season, blamed the crackdown on an elbow injury that will keep him out indefinitely."I 100% believe that contributed to me getting hurt," Glasnow said of the crackdown. "No doubt. Without a doubt."Glasnow told reporters that he has used sunscreen and rosin to better grip the ball and laughed at the idea that it's a rare practice."It's ridiculous that it seems like this whole public perception of like, 'Oh, it's just a select few people.' Your favorite pitcher 50 years ago was probably using something, too."If you felt these balls, how inconsistent they were, you have to use something."Glasnow went on to explain how during an outing against the Washington Nationals on June 8, he tried pitching without any sticky substances. He said while he pitched well, the next day he felt incredible soreness in his arm."I threw to the Nationals with nothing ... I did well against the Nationals. Probably one of my best starts I had all year," Glasnow said. "I woke up the next day and was like, I am sore in places that I didn't even know I had muscles. I felt completely different."Glasnow said that without any substances for grip, he had to change the grip on his pitches, digging the ball deeper into his hand and gripping it harder."I'm not a doctor - I know you guys probably know that. But I'm taking a fastball, I'm squeezing the ball twice as hard. So all of this - I'm recruiting all of these muscles," Glasnow said, flexing his forearm. "And I'm taking my arm as hard as I can, throwing the ball. So I'm going from, like, a flexed muscle to letting the ball go.He added: "Waking up, I was like, okay, this sucks. Something is weird here. And then that same feeling is persisting all week long. I go into my start [Monday] and that same feeling, it pops, or whatever the hell happened to my elbow."Glasnow said that MLB implementing the changes midseason gives pitchers little time to adjust."Do it in the offseason. Give us a chance to adjust to it. But I just threw 80 innings, then you tell me I can't use anything in the middle of the year. I have to change everything I've been doing the entire season. I'm telling you I truly believe that's why I got hurt."There is little agreement on the subject across MLB. Some <a href="https://www.insider.com/mlb-batters-accuse-pitchers-using-substances-cheating-2021-6">hitters have complained</a> that they have faced increasingly unhittable pitches, arguing that sticky substances should be banned.Others, like Mets first baseman Pete Alonso, have said pitchers should be allowed to use substances to grip the balls to reduce the risk of batters being hit by pitches. The concern about wild pitches has been a frequent argument to allow certain substances."The only thing I learned was that it hurts to throw a ball in the middle of the season from having something to not having something," Glasnow said.Watch a clip of his comments below:

One of MLB's best pitchers gave an eye-opening explanation of why he likes using banned sticky substances while pitching

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow apparently had quite a strange pre-game ritual.</li><li>According to ESPN's Jeff Passan, Glasnow would look at a picture of 'pharma bro' <keyword id="3069421" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Martin-Shkreli">Martin Shkreli</keyword> before starts to get himself angry and ready to pitch.</li><li>Glasnow has since moved on to other motivations as a part of his pregame routine, but Passan says the Rays pitcher "still thinks Martin Shkreli is a turd."</li></ul>Professional athletes have some pretty strange pregame routines.Some may eat the same meal before every game. Others have a lucky shirt or a routine with tying their shoes before taking the field.But <keyword id="1348949" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tampa-Bay-Rays">Tampa Bay Rays</keyword> pitcher Tyler Glasnow may have had the strangest pregame routine in all of <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sports">sports</keyword>. According to ESPN's Jeff Passan, Glasnow would look at a picture of "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli before games to make himself angry and ready to pitch.Shkreli <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-memo-price-gouging-on-turing-and-valeant-2016-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">became infamous in 2015</a> after his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired an antiparasitic drug and raised its price by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/a-62-year-old-drug-just-rose-in-price-by-5455-and-its-getting-hillary-clintons-attention-2015-9">5,000%</a>. Shkreli is <a href="https://www.insider.com/martin-shkreli-prison-sentence-for-securities-fraud-2018-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently serving seven years in prison</a> after being convicted of securities fraud.On Twitter, fans were largely in favor of Glasnow's unorthodox methods of pregame motivation.Whatever it takes to get your fastball to 97 miles per hour.

Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow once used a picture of 'pharma bro' Martin Shkreli to make himself angry before games

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole said gripping the baseball is "so hard" after his most recent start.</li><li><keyword id="133010" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="MLB">MLB</keyword> recently cracked down on pitchers using banned substances, which Cole was suspected of using.</li><li>Cole makes $36 million a year as part of a $324 million contract to pitch for the Yankees.</li></ul>Gerrit Cole, a pitcher for the <keyword id="130401" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-York-Yankees">New York Yankees</keyword>, really wants Major League Baseball to ease up on its ban on sticky substances.Cole addressed MLB's <a href="https://www.insider.com/mlb-to-screen-pitchers-to-catch-people-using-banned-substances-2021-6">new policy</a>, which harshly punishes players caught using foreign substances, after his start against the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday and asked the league to work out a new approach with consultation from pitchers."It's so hard to grip the ball!" Cole said during a virtual press conference. "For Pete's sake, it's part of the reason why almost every player on the field has had something, regardless if they're a pitcher or not, to help them control the ball."I don't have a solution, but again, we are aligned in a lot of areas with the commissioner's office on this. Please, just talk to us. Please, just work with us. I know you have the hammer here, but we've been living in a gray area for so long. I would just hate to see players get hurt. I would hate to see balls start flying at people's heads," he added.Cole, who makes $36 million a year as part of a $324 million contract for the Yankees, was outwardly emotional when he spoke on the topic on Wednesday night."I was messing with [my grip] all night. To make a drastic change in the middle of the season is going to be challenging for a lot of people," he said. "I would encourage the commissioner's office to continue to talk with us, please, because we're the ones that throw the ball. They don't. And we're the experts in this situation."Cole has been a suspected user of banned sticky substances since MLB began its investigation into the issue in May. He gave <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-gerrit-cole-awkwardly-answers-question-spider-tack-2021-6">an awkward nonanswer</a> when he was asked by a reporter whether he'd ever used the substances on June 8, and Minnesota Twins slugger Josh Donaldson <a href="https://www.insider.com/mlb-batters-accuse-pitchers-using-substances-cheating-2021-6">accused Cole</a> of using the substances on May 26.On Monday, Brian Harkins, a former Los Angeles Angels employee, released apparent text messages with Cole, in which the pitcher asked Harkins to supply him with the substances, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CQG0R1xBL6R/">Sports Illustrated</a> reported.But Cole is not the first pitcher suspected of using the substances to speak out against MLB for its new penalties.Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow also argued on behalf of using <a href="https://www.insider.com/tyler-glasnow-explains-using-sticky-substances-while-pitching-2021-6">sticky substances</a> on Tuesday, and even blamed his recent elbow injury."I 100% believe that contributed to me getting hurt," Glasnow said of the crackdown. "No doubt. Without a doubt."Cole said he's discussed the issue with Glasnow and has sympathy for his latest injury."I feel for the guy in that situation," Cole said of Glasnow. "We're all out there trying to compete, and he's working his tail off trying to compete for his team. And it's just an unfortunate, it's just - yeah, man, that's a bummer."But Cole's own Yankees teammate Giancarlo Stanton has publicly taken the <a href="https://www.insider.com/mlb-batters-accuse-pitchers-using-substances-cheating-2021-6">opposing stance</a> on the situation. Stanton said he's seeing pitches this year that he hasn't seen before and thinks MLB is right to stop the use of the substances.

Yankees $324 million pitcher Gerrit Cole says gripping the baseball is too hard, begs MLB to let him use banned substances

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer has been <a href="https://www.insider.com/mlb-batters-accuse-pitchers-using-substances-cheating-2021-6">suspected of using banned substances</a> to improve his pitching.</li><li><keyword id="133010" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="MLB">MLB</keyword> recently cracked down on enforcing the ban on those substances, introducing harsh penalties.</li><li>During "Sunday Night Baseball" on ESPN, Bauer explained how players use the substances.</li></ul>Trevor Bauer, a pitcher for the <keyword id="218010" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Los-Angeles-Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</keyword>, explained during a national broadcast on Sunday how pitchers used banned sticky substances.Bauer, who's been <a href="https://www.insider.com/mlb-batters-accuse-pitchers-using-substances-cheating-2021-6">suspected of using the banned substances</a>, said in a live interview with ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball" during the Dodgers' game against the <keyword id="23408" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Chicago-Cubs">Chicago Cubs</keyword> that the substances help improve grip and spin rate."It also keeps the ball stuck to your fingers longer so that you can actually apply the force in a way that's tangential to the surface of the ball, which increases spin," Bauer said, adding: "It's unclear whether the majority of the spin-rate increase comes from the position that it allows you to get to or the increased friction on the ball, or if it's a combination of both. But that's really where the performance enhancement comes from."MLB recently cracked down on pitchers using foreign substances with <a href="https://www.insider.com/mlb-to-screen-pitchers-to-catch-people-using-banned-substances-2021-6">a new policy</a> requiring umpires to regularly <a href="https://www.insider.com/mets-pitcher-forced-to-unbuckle-belt-during-standing-ovation-2021-6">search players</a> for the substances and imposing harsh penalties for those caught using them.Bauer has called the new MLB policy "a mess.""MLB was telling players and teams for three or four months already this year: 'Do not change anything. We're not going to enforce it this year' ... And now all of a sudden it's like, oh, ha ha, everything's changing," Bauer said during an interview with SportsNet Los Angeles earlier this month.He added: "They haven't thought through a lot of these things. They just made the umpires judge, jury, and executioner.""The best analogy for this is you have basically people who have never seen traffic before, have now been given no radar guns, and have been told, 'Hey, you're supposed to tell who's speeding and who's not,'" he said.Bauer will make $38 million this year as part of a three-year, $102 million contract with the Dodgers.Other star pitchers have spoken out against the policy, including the <keyword id="130401" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-York-Yankees">New York Yankees</keyword>' <a href="https://www.insider.com/gerrit-cole-begs-mlb-to-let-pitchers-use-banned-substances-2021-6">Gerrit Cole</a> and the <keyword id="1348949" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tampa-Bay-Rays">Tampa Bay Rays</keyword>' <a href="https://www.insider.com/tyler-glasnow-explains-using-sticky-substances-while-pitching-2021-6">Tyler Glasnow</a>.Other pitchers have expressed their grievances on the field with reactions to the inspections, including one player who <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-max-scherzer-sergio-romo-take-pants-off-foreign-substances-2021-6">started to take off his pants</a> when umpires approached him.

Dodgers $102 million pitcher Trevor Bauer gave a lecture during a nationally televised game on how sticky stuff helps pitchers

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="133010" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="MLB">MLB</keyword>'s new policy against banned foreign substances has led to visceral reactions from players.</li><li>A former executive says the policy is just a symptom of a power struggle between owners and players.</li><li>He says it will lead to a work stoppage, and each side will use the policy to justify other demands.</li></ul>Major League Baseball's new policy banning sticky substances is just a guise for a greater power struggle between players and owners and could ultimately lead to a work stoppage, according to former Miami Marlins president David Samson."There's no question in my mind," Samson said during "<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dan-le-batard-show-with-stugotz/id934820588">The Dan Le Batard Show</a>." "But be clear, it's not a warning that a work stoppage is coming, it's a warning that if a work stoppage does come, it's because of the other side. The players are positioning us to believe that the owners are being unreasonable. The owners are positioning us to believe that the players are being unreasonable."If Samson is correct, it would be MLB's ninth work stoppage since 1972. This time around, MLB's new banned substances policies would be the driving reason. The new policies require umpires to inspect pitchers for banned substances like pine tar and rosin and punish those caught using them.The policies have already sparked a conflict between players and the league offices.Several pitchers have spoken out against MLB for instituting the change, including <a href="https://www.insider.com/gerrit-cole-begs-mlb-to-let-pitchers-use-banned-substances-2021-6">Gerrit Cole </a>of the <keyword id="130401" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-York-Yankees">New York Yankees</keyword>, <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-mlb-pitchers-banned-substances-2021-6">Trevor Bauer</a> of the <keyword id="218010" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Los-Angeles-Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</keyword>, and <a href="https://www.insider.com/tyler-glasnow-explains-using-sticky-substances-while-pitching-2021-6">Tyler Glasnow</a> of the <keyword id="1348949" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tampa-Bay-Rays">Tampa Bay Rays</keyword>. Other pitchers have expressed their grievances on the field with reactions to the inspections, including one player who <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-max-scherzer-sergio-romo-take-pants-off-foreign-substances-2021-6">started to take off his pants</a> when umpires approached him.But Samson thinks that's just a symptom of a greater disagreement.<h2>Players want big changes to contract deadlines, according to Samson</h2>Samson said the entire substance situation is a product of intentional conflict created by a select group of unnamed team owners, unnamed players' agents, and MLB Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark.The reasons behind the conflict are statutes that favor teams over players in the last three collective bargaining agreements passed in 2007, 2012, and 2017. The statutes include salary arbitration protocols - which is when a neutral arbitrator determines a player's salary for the final years of their rookie contract - and service time manipulation practices - which is when teams keep players in the lower minor league system longer to increase the length of their rookie contracts. "This is what everyone has been waiting for if you're a player," Samson said. "The sticky substances, it's all a fugazi, it's meant to distract you from what's really going on behind the scenes, which is an effort from the owners to not give away anything they've gained in the last two or three agreements." The current collective bargaining agreement will expire at the end of the 2021 season. Owners are looking to keep those statutes in place, while players are looking for reform, according to Samson. "The owners, last time, were forced to give up all sorts of many meaningless things that players wanted like food and chefs and planes and game times," Samson said. "Now the <keyword id="6357801" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="union">union</keyword> wants something totally different. They want players to be called up earlier, and they want players to be eligible for arbitration earlier."The <a href="https://d39ba378-ae47-4003-86d3-147e4fa6e51b.filesusr.com/ugd/b0a4c2_95883690627349e0a5203f61b93715b5.pdf">current systems</a> allow teams to extend players' deadline for arbitration and free-agent eligibility by keeping them on minor league rosters for extended thresholds of the season. These systems have prevented players from qualifying for arbitration and free agency after spending the expected amount of time on a team's system, giving teams more payroll flexibility over the years. Samson believes those systems, and the contrasting objectives of players and owners in changing or maintaining those systems, are the underlying reasons for the new banned substance policies.

Former MLB executive says the new sticky-stuff policy is part of a bigger power struggle and will lead to a work stoppage

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul><li>The Tampa Bay Rays were temporarily left without a single starting pitcher on their active roster after trading away ace Chris Archer ahead of the deadline.</li><li>While most teams might see this as a problem, the Rays have embraced unorthodox pitching arrangements all season.</li><li>The Rays' willingness to throw traditional baseball methodology out the window has made them one of the most compelling teams to watch. </li></ul>With the AL East now a two-horse race between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, the Tampa Bay Rays were left to try and reload at the deadline, trading away ace starter Chris Archer to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for younger talents Austin Meadows and Tyler Glasnow.While there's nothing strange about a team that is out of the playoff hunt trading away their top pitcher, the move did put the Rays in a rather odd position - thanks to Archer's departure and a slew of injuries, Tampa Bay was left without a single true starting pitcher on their roster.Coming into the 2018 season, the Rays had just three true starting pitchers on their roster - Archer, Jake Faria, and Blake Snell. The day that Archer was traded, both Faria and Snell were already on the 10-day DL, leaving the Rays without a single starter.The problem didn't last long, as Faria was ready to return to the team just a day later, but in all likelihood, the Rays didn't see the situation as much of a problem either way.After the Rays' top three starting pitchers, they have been quite experimental on the mound this year, using platoons of middle and long relievers to get through games. They even toyed with the idea of an "opening" pitcher, with reliever Sergio Romo&#xa0;became the first pitcher since 1980 to start and pitch at least one inning on consecutive days earlier in the year.Since the Archer trade, <a href="http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/team/depth_chart/index.jsp?c_id=tb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Rays have adjusted their roster to look a bit less absurd</a>. Faria is back in the rotation, and Snell is set to return on Saturday. Glasnow, who was a reliever for the Pirates, has shifted roles for Tampa Bay, and made his first start of the 2018 season on Wednesday, pitching for three innings while allowing just one run and notching five strikeouts, to help the Rays en route to a 7-2 win over the Angels.Now 20 games back on the division, the Rays season certainly hasn't gone the way they've hoped, but they have undeniably been one of the most entertaining groups to watch in all of baseball.<div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lebron-james-spends-millions-cleveland-cavs-nba-finals-champions-2016-6">How LeBron James makes and spends his millions</a></h3> <div> </div> </div></hr>

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One of MLB's best pitchers gave an eye-opening explanation of why he likes using banned sticky substances while pitching

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