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Originally Posted by dsvitak
What's the deal with Scherzer?
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The headline was "To boost Mets and sustain greatness, Max Scherzer needs to adjust to new rules."
To the extent that the following is true, he has no excuse:
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Here’s Scherzer’s problem, even if, as he said, a league official after the third inning witnessed him washing his hands with alcohol underneath the stands: A memo the league sent to all 30 clubs in spring training, detailing a more aggressive crackdown on sticky stuff, made clear that rosin in certain instances would qualify as an illegal substance.
Scherzer said after he washed his hand, he applied rosin and grabbed sweat before going back out to the mound. The only approved rosin bag, however, is the one umpires inspect before the game and is brought by the game compliance officer to the mound. Any rosin Scherzer used in the tunnel would not have been approved.
“Please keep in mind that player use of rosin always must be consistent with the requirements and expectations of the Official Baseball Rules,” the memo said. “When used excessively or otherwise misapplied, i.e. the gloves or other parts of the uniform, rosin may be determined by the umpires to be a prohibited foreign substance, the use of which may subject a player to ejection and discipline.”
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