I am 20 seconds in. I have never heard of this woman. But if she is a any type of thorn to bobby boy, she is my hero and will have my forever respect and gratitude.
Of course you did Zack! 🤣😂 How many baseballs did you get from her for your ALREADY massive collection? How many balls from your collection did you hustle and trample kids for? 🤔🤔🙄🙄
I don’t need a scientist to tell me that mlb was juicing the balls! The fact that they put all of em under lock and key and kept the balls out of the hands of researchers should tell you everything.
Just grab a ball, on center grip, throw it like a football, stiff wrist...from all arm angles...That's the Roger Beshens influenced football slider from 2018 and the one Ohtani throws. Sweeper is my football slider. I got 8500 tweet since May 2018 about it. Some ML pitchers told me what game they threw it. I taught hundreds of ML pitchers, Glasnow, Musgrove, Taillon, Kuhl, Crick, Flaherty, Jordan Hicks...dozens more in 2018 that's when I taught these guys.
The Pujols surge at the end of the season was strange. Kinda felt like he was being served up meatballs to get to 700, which is probably the case but mlb could have easily influenced it by making sure he got the denser balls as well. he also had the grandfathered “illegal” bat that everyone was crying about in the World Series. This isn’t a Pujols issue, it’s mlb doing what they can to appeal to casual fans. “DINGERS!!!”
Excellent point. I'm a Cards fan and loved seeing it, but I can easily see this being done. Who knows? And you know what else they could do? Feed specific teams these baseballs and maybe not the other during the same game. Or, both teams to screw over/unders with betting.
Yeah. It's weird that they don't understand how this works.. When you focus on attracting casual fans, you tend to ignore and push away real fans. And naturally, casual fans are just that and dont stick around.. They're really pushing away actual fans for people who dont care about the game..
The balls and the fact MLB stopped drug testing due to the lockout for three and a half months. Pujols decline was mostly due to injuries that didn't seem to be an issue in that final season...people thing PED use is mainly to get jacked but most are used to recover from injuries faster.
This reminds me very much of the 90's Sosa-McGwire home run chase. MLB lapped up the attention and cast dispersions at reporters asking about bottles of Andro in their lockers. With waning relevance in the sports landscape, the league WANTED stars chasing big milestones for headlines. If they could put their finger on the scales, they damn well certainly would.
Nailed it here with your comment. Baseball desperately needed the PR boost after the strike debacle and they set up the perfect storm to get us back.... Roids + Juiced Balls + Home Runs = Getting The Fans Back To The Ballpark & Watching On TV.
The ball was also changed during the strike. It changed manufacturing countries during that time frame. After the strike they wanted to bring fans back into the sport. Which is why more than just juiced players were hitting record numbers of HRs
I’ve been saying this for some time. I’ve been an avid baseball fan for decades. The home run is becoming too common. There was a very special feeling that came with home runs when they were less prevalent. I honestly miss that feeling.
Right on. I was just saying the same thing to my dad. At this point, they may as well just have home run derbies because nobody cares about the actual game play.
I guess it’s different for everybody but I love the new baseball, all the new rules make the game actually watchable like who wants to watch a 4 hour game for the game to still be 0-0 or 1-1, that’s mainly why baseball was dying
This has been going on since at least the late 90s early 2000s. As my friends and I would go to a lot of A’s games and we would get to the stadium early to watch BP and between that and foul balls and in game HRs after a few seasons we had a’lot of MLB balls. After a while we had so many MLB balls we would take them to our local fields and play with them along with our everyday standard sporting good baseballs. When one of us would ripped an unusually far HR almost every time it was with the official MLB balls…
Not entirely. Pujols entering the HR Derby did something too. I'm sure there were situations where the ball played a part but ever since the derby his timing was way more direct. Him entering the HR Derby was the best thing that's happened to baseball in recent times
It's ultimately about money, juice the balls juice the attendance , more fans more money more jerseys are sold, hats etc. They were trying to adjust their strategies as the season went on like juiced balls for historic homerun hitters then altered balls when they had few pitchers in big games get more strike outs , but mostly these changes benefited hitters as there clearly is a crack down against pitchers ie: spit balls resin patches and anything to get a advantage or edge to counter the juiced balls that the hitters enjoyed. Now as we know they are inspecting pitchers gloves and hands at the end of each inning. Baseball can be a boring drawn out game and at some level you would understand why they play around like this but at the same time it's hypocritical of MLB to juice balls but crack down on juiced bats or scuffed balls that some pitchers use to do in the old days or maybe they still do. Notice there are no more 20 game winners in baseball that use to be a true measure of a ace pitcher now it's specialist relievers, designated hitters ( which I like) but you get the point tinkering can lead to failure or miss trust the only winners in this is MLB just look at their profits, but what really bothers me is the leagues behavior and denials they are no different than politicians who can't go an hour without lying to somebody.
I find this story very interesting. In my youth the balls would stay in play until the cover was knocked off or the stitching popped. Pitchers said as the game continued the covers became just loose enough the leather could be pushed to make it less aerodynamic. That gave off-speed and junk ball pitchers a greater advantage. Sliders, screwballs, and knuckleballs had an unique place in their bag of tricks. The ball manufacturing changed somewhere between the 80s and 2000s. The current controversy would not be such a big deal if the balls changed just once. Three times in five years is a big difference. Making the ball slightly smaller and causing injury to pitchers is enough to cry "Foul Ball" on the commissioner, the league, and the owners who sat back idly watching all this happen. The league has enough multi-million dollar pitchers that could file a class action lawsuit.
Lawsuit for what, MLB can make the baseball however they want, it's their league, and their ball. They also swept the Astros cheating in 2019 under the rug. The Nationals were told by multiple teams the Astros were stealing signs at home in 2019, so they used a system of switching signs every inning and the Astros couldn't hit at home, lost all 4 games. Also, rumor was for games in Washington the Astros had people on a hotel roof terrace across the street from center field watching the catcher with binoculars and stealing signs....the Astros hit the cover off the bsll in Washington and won all those games(3). I would call that BS except for the fact I worked on that building when it was being built and yes, you can see home plate from the roof terrace. The Nationals won that World Series.
The juiced balls don't only benefit the hitter but they work against the pitcher. Lower seams, less drag, less possible movement and velocity from the pitcher. So even though players like Judge hit no doubters, the actual pitch was less effective and likely seen better by the batter.
"Lower seams, less drag, less possible movement and velocity from the pitcher" That's not how it works. Less drag produces less movement, but also more velocity.
The shape and size of the ball may have also contributed to the insane amount of Tommy John surgeries across the same span. Smaller balls and flatter seams make breaking pitches much more difficult to throw
What I don't understand is why wouldn't they just let the batters cork their bats instead. How can you condemn one guy for hitting with a corked bat and celebrate another for hitting a juiced ball? There is no difference morally and ethically. You're manipulating the equipment from original design to improve the distance a ball will travel while being hit. Wouldn't the ball juicing be the most morally corrupt of the two principles because not only are you giving the batter an advantage, but you're also disable the pitchers ability to throw and causing them injuries? Corking a bat doesn't affect the pitcher at all.
They made this way worse than what it could have been. All they had to say is they were experimenting with different balls and to get accurate data for pros the need the pros to use them and they are adjusting according to the data. Controversy gone
Not just that but they literally put the balls under lock and key and even wouldnt let researchers do it. I honestly am starting to feel all sports are pretty corrupt. The nfl literally said fuck and made a bunch of rules to take most of the defense and running game out the league. Hockey would be really hard to do. Idek how you could in hockey because there’s not much margin there. Unless you literally had the players in on it. Which no matter how anyone tries to argue sports are staged, you wouldnt be able to keep thousand of players a year shut up forever.
@@Tampafan33 Not just that but the NFL changed from being a sports league to a sports entertainment league about a decade ago because a class action lawsuit that was being threatened by a group of gamblers looking into whether they colluded with outcomes of games through officiating, by changing their definition from sports league to sports entertainment, it means even if they are colluding into games outcomes, then gamblers cant sue because they are sports entertainment which by its definition does not guarantee that the outcomes are not fixed, only other major sports league that uses that same definition is the WWE.
2:50 _"When baseballs get used, the outside of the ball starts to wear down. The leather gets rougher. The seams get higher. And the ball starts to lose its shape. These things all add drag to the ball. Which means that the ball isn't able to travel through the air as well. But if you're able to keep the ball rounder and more compact, you can get a few feet of extra distance on any fly ball."_ When I was a kid, the same ball stayed in play, inning to inning, until it was hit into the seats. Now they switch balls after nearly every pitch. Why is that? Is that MLB's idea? Because it fits perfectly into the theory mentioned here.
yup - definitely. I'd even go further and invite this woman to help with the 'research'... all in efforts to speed up the game, make it more exciting / entertaining of course.
Thanks for this man! Earned a sub from me. My kiddo and I have had many a discussion of the blankery around the ball. We both agree that integrity in sports is at an all time low and keeps going down.
Oh sh*t I've been wanting to learn more about the "juiced balls". Thanks for this. IIRC the MLB was switching up the balls without notice during the 2021 season which makes the Braves WS victory even more impressive in my mind 😁
Damnit, I love this channel. I love how you'll be making a super professional and educational video and just randomly drop in "moot fuckin point." Never change. This is what sports channels need.
I've seen more homeruns hit by batters way out in front and completely off balance the last few years than the previous 30 years combined. That's all i need to know.
I just bumped into this video...great job! I am a _very_ tough marker, but this is very impressive. Informative, well-paced, and absolutely brilliant use of B-roll, particularly when showing outfielders initially going too deep in the 2019 World Series. I'm very impressed, and look forward to watching more of your videos.
Let’s not forget, at this time was also fighting unstable pitchers. Smaller seams and smoother balls means less movement on the balls. Which was a problem with the new RPMs the pitchers were reaching.
As a kid, I was primarily a pitcher A "juiced" ball can be dangerous in several ways, less reaction time for the pitcher on balls lined back to the mound, denser impact on hit batters, and pitcher's injuring their arms overthrowing as they try to compensate If Major League Baseball finds an acceptable ball for competition, then PLEASE keep it consistent Both for reasonable competition, and for player safety
@LouieiuoL1223 not every comment, ("glory days" I guess 🤭) but just for context A pitcher is the closest player in front of the batter, so a juiced ball will affect him 1st
I remember pitchers feeling the balls, and knowing they were wrong, too dense or small, several years ago. There are even clips of pitchers refusing to use certain balls and calling it out as juiced, and causing big drama. The umps were suspiciously fast to replace the ball, and the teams were quick to retrieve the ball (destroy the evidence).
It’s PAST TIME to REMOVE the WHOLE MLB board. The research is BEYOND refutable. ALL 30 teams should be calling an emergency meeting to make this happen. It’s OBVIOUS the commissioner is NOT qualified to do the job. His actions should be considered GROSS INCOMPETENCE !!
I am a 'light' fan of baseball and played all bases in High School. First I have heard of this issue and is quite dis-heartening. With all the corruption We hear around the world , I hate to see this type [or any] of greed/corruption in America.
Balls were always juiced every few decades or so, beginning in 1920. Before that, it was the 'dead ball" era. Babe Ruth hit a record 60 homers in 1927. The other significant decade was 1960s, when Roger Maris broke the record with 61 in 1961. It went slightly up and down the next few decades, until the steroid era of the late 90s - early 00s threw everything off kilter.
This story shows us how probably most _everything_ has been corrupted in the United States. It's a microcosm of how our government "works" (for some). In fact, corruption seems to be the _only thing_ that "trickles down" from that very same source. MLB baseball "scientists" are like Big Oil "scientists" are like Big Pharma "scientists." 😝
You sweet soul, Las Vegas and sports are entertainment. Sports betting has replaced the stock market at this point. It's insane how normalized it is now players are getting suspended like a it's a hot piss test for betting on how many yards thierteam will rush....it's controlled.
Is this also why we have tons of pitchers consistently throwing 100 mph now? Seemed like we had just a handful that could do that every once in a while back in the 90s.
This is PRECISELY why. COLLEGE kids hit triple digits like it's Sunday in the park. Back in the '60s and '70s, maybe Nolan Ryan hit 99. Virtually NO one could touch the century mark. These juiced balls in college combined with the BB core bats threaten to ruin the game but worse, possibly kill someone with the speed the ball comes off the bat.
Manfred is using different balls in the post season so they can influence who wins in October. They juiced Judge’s 2022 balls and Pujols too. This is a threat to the game more so than the black sox scandal or Pete Rose betting on games. Changing the balls in games, in season, and most likely to control who wins. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is giving teams like SD and the Mets more deadballs to punish them for spending big in free agency and driving up player salaries.
@@scottb3034 Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, but it’s in the owners best interest to keep salaries down. That’s why they got angry at Cohen after agreeing to a deal with Carlos Correa.
@@SeanMc8181 No, it's in their best interest to keep revenues up, fans engaged, work stoppages to a minimum, etc. and a big step toward that is providing some contractual monetary concessions to some of the elite players. The Yankees, who are the most profitable franchise in baseball, have had no issues with their policy to overpay players. Revenue sharing not only limits profits a bit for bigger franchises but makes smaller markets more lucrative and competitive IN SPENDING....on contracts...so everyone gets a piece of the pie and it is designed to make big contracts less of an issue. If it ever were an issue they'd push hard to put in a hard salary cap in the CBA. The MLB also gets much more of the revenue than the MLBPA, they aren't hurting for revenues overall as a league. The only reason they truly care about suppressing salaries is extreme greed....not because of their fiscal health. And the owners aren't pissed at Cohen for Correa's contract which was not even the biggest in the league (and they won't be pissed when Ohtani resets the market very soon). They are pissed at Cohen because he is an abrasive douche that's also pretty controversial away from the MLB (heck, he's basically a criminal) while most owners are conservative. NBA owners hated Mark Cuban and NFL owners despised Al Davis for a long time for their brashness. Even all that said, they would NOT punish one of their own under pretty much any circumstance and it would never happen after a contract (didn't happen when the Padres signed Machado nor when the Phillies signed Harper...nor when the Rangers signed A-Rod....then the Yankees when they resigned A-Rod, Angels when they kept Trout, etc).
A baseball fan in Congress should introduce a bill to remove baseball's exemption in light of the issue with the ball and MLB's reticence to be honest about it and set it right. While "The Diamond" doesn't want to imply nefarious intent, it cannot be ruled out.
MLB with Bud Selig as commissioner turned a blind eye towards PED's during the 90's because the Bonds, Sosa and Mcguire homerun derbys were bringing more fans to the parks. Even when it became obvious what was going on MLB denied everything. Not until the public backlash became so severe did it force MLB to change. The backlash was very severe as we now have a generation of players that have hall of fame career numbers who will not be voted into the hall of fame, at least not during their lifetimes. This is the big black mark on Seligs tenure. Fast forward to today, since MLB can no longer allow the juicing of players, it has found a way to juice the baseball. It appears the current commissioner wants to add his own black mark to his tenure. Homers bring fans to the parks (at least that is how MLB sees it). The current dimensions of most new ballparks are very hitter friendly, combine this with a juiced baseball and you can see why pitching staffs are under a lot of stress. Personally, I hate cheap home runs as it really takes away from the game. A homerun should signify a real athletic accomplishment and that is what is being threatened. It removes the elite athlete level of performance. It is the equivalent of having an 8ft basket for NBA players. MLB should publish a standard of performance for the baseball that is timeless. The beauty of baseball is that it has a timeless aspect to it. Then let the athletes perform. A juiced golf ball has really ruined professional golf, lets prevent this from happening to Baseball. Having an average player belt 30 plus home runs is not good for baseball but that is becoming the new norm. All MLB needs to do is have sample batches of balls independently tested during the season to keep tolerances and performance within a range. Consistent performance is what the sport and fans deserve and want. If MLB is going to continue with the farce of a juiced ball then they might as well go all in with aluminum bats painted to look like wooden ones.
Bonds gets all the hate because he is both abrasive as heck and black. Playing for the Giants of all teams doesn't help as the Giants are the black sheep of the high end market.
@@FinalB055 I don't think it's any one reason but a combination. First and probably most important is that FOX NEWS and right-wing media smears San Francisco at least once a week as a exhibit A in the failure of Liberal policies. Meanwhile, the Giants staff are rather into more left-wing talking points while majority owner Charles Johnson is a major Republican simp. At the same time, San Francisco itself is a dive in many areas with homeless camps on major streets and under most overhangs while poor people are begging for money to get a meal or get wasted. Add to all of that, is the complete lack of any coverage from national baseball media because it is on the west coast and unlike the Dodgers or Padres who not only buy a lot of media puff pieces but also sport national superstars, compared to the Giants who don't have those superstars and refuse to buy media presence and you end up with the black sheep of the high-end market. If the Giants want a superstar then they would have to pay at least 10 percent more than another team to land them and with how overinflated the top-end market is and the Giants thrift spending, I just don't think it will be possible to buy a superstar. All of these things leave the Giants polorized to where you love them or hate them and that is a terrible place to be.
Manfred's dodging of questions about the baseballs gives a 'where there's smoke there's fire' look to the whole thing, and unfortunately casts a shade over player accomplishments. I have no doubt that Judge is a great power hitter, but his two greatest power-hitting seasons come in ones notorious for ball issues, with one of them including questions about balls pitched specifically to him. And Pujols... well he sure made an incredible comeback last year after so many poor ones. Highest AVG since 2014, highest HR/AB since 2016... Hard to believe it's all coincidence.
I have been yelling from the mountaintops about the juiced ball since 1995. After baseball lost the world series in 94, suddenly 21 players hit 30+ homeruns. In 96, that number jumps to 43 players. In 1998, 13 guys hit over 40 with 4 hitting 50+. Shortly after, baseball found a scapegoat in steroid abuse. And sure thats part of it, but guys like Ken Griffey Jr, who was squeaky clean hit 56 two years in a row. Between 1977 and 1990 exactly zero major leaguers hit 50 or more homers. I contend that the ball was juiced in the early 90s, then after the strike, mlb tightened it even further. They then again reverted to a dead ball after the steroid scandal in order to clearly lay blame on PEDs. My 2 cents.
Imagine being so bad that you're becoming a worse commissioner than BUD SELIG. Although that's obviously from the fan perspective, he's a mouthpiece for the owners at the end of the day. And in that regard, he's doing a damn good job.
Yeah…😅 two years ago I put out a video about how people forget how bad Bud Selig was, and I said that kindred wasn’t the worst *yet*. But now, he just keeps pushing himself closer to that line every day
Great Video man you come off really well not robotic but still being able to keep a facinating and coherent story in a well researched and facinating plot
I can’t find info re: Montana state university at Bozeman’s accreditation in either a masters or PhD program for Physics. Main campus has a PHD in philosophy and an MS in Physics On their website. Has anyone ever actually looked at this? What was her defense in out of curiosity? I see her focus but I can’t find a paper. Which is normally available given PHD students are published and professors to some degree during studies. I figured someone found the answer and I’ve been digging for a while.
Yeah, if Judge had hit 62 dingers an average of 455 feet it would have totally made the difference. That extra 5 feet and one close-call Homer absolutely swung it. I get hating the Yankees but Judge had a phenomenal season and baseball was never not going to acknowledge that. Breaking a record that old and that storied (basically the most renowned in sports) made him a shoo-in. Ohtani will win plenty of MVPs, Judge did something that he (nor anyone) won't be able to repeat for a long while. Let him have it
We can (quietly) assume that they are giving the Cardinals pitchers the juiced balls, and their opponents the dead balls. I only half kid. That bullpen is atrocious and their starters are very mid.
The fact manfred thought he could change the ball and no one would figure it out shows what he thinks of us as fans. He then tries to whitewash any proof that even a 10 yr old could see and feel in ball differences.
Forever, it seems, I was always wondering how so many foul balls that were SMOKED line drives that you have about one second to react to, were not causing more accidental injuries or wprse even to fans along the sidelines. I think it was because(my thinking about this) my grandfather, my dad, and my brother and myself were at a day game in `78 or 79 at Yankee Stadium sitting in right field about 10 rows back from that low wall, the shortest distance from HP, it was nuts. Reggie Jackson hit a line drive home run right at us, the ball was at us before I could hear the report from his bat!! My grandfather instinctively put up his right hand to grab the ball. The sound of it hitting his hand was like a slap to the face from friggin Thor, or a person hitting water flat faced from 20 ft. in the air!! He cursed instantly and loud, and I never heard him curse in my life. My dad was sure his hand was broken all over. But grandpa just shook his hand and blew on it for a while, no broken bones. So how do people way closer and not giving full attention not get outright killed? With the ball so hard and tightly wound, I know a pitcher will die very soon from a comebacker screaming right at his face at 120 mph. My dear baseball friends, It is just a matter of time. I think , before this season ends, a pitcher will get hit and lose his life. I hope I am wrong. I pray that I am wrong!
I recently worked for Rawlings in Washington Missouri, and it's funny you bring this up, because there were old balls that were to never be touched, but if you took one out it was blatantly obvious something was much different. The balls are all made in Porto Rico and are stamped when they get to the warehouse. They did it all to sensationalize the sport
The only part of this that matters AT ALL is the fact that it makes it easier to rig games. If all the balls were the same it wouldnt matter if they were juiced. MLB can make the balls however they want. But we dont need certain teams potentially gaining an advantage, especially with sports gambling being so big. Umpires do it. Tell me the guy who called a balk in the 7-7 HOU/LAD game the other day wasnt up to something potentially. Anyone watch the old Livan Hernandez playoff game vs ATL? It was clear.
Parallel to the Volkswagen diesel scandal. Reminds me of the line in Casablanca: "I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find gambling going on in this establishment."
In 2018 I introduced My Football Slider to MLB Pitchers, this deadly slider cut down on home runs and pitchers K per IP went from 8 to 12 in many cases. I taught Glasnow, Musgrove, Taillon, Kuhl, Crick, Flaherty, Fried, Jordan Hicks and dozens of others, to try my Grip, Tilt and Wrist action to help them go from avg ML pitchers to Elite. I told them Try my On center grip, Throw it like a football, Stiff wrist....I changed the MLB landscape starting in May 2018. Ohtani throws the Roger Beshens influenced football slider they now call the sweeper. I taught Joe MAddon it in Chicago back in May 2018 along with Aaron Boone. I also taught Matt Blake and Ethan Katz my football slider in May 2018, they got hired to exclusively teach my football slider. In May 2018 I exposed the Andrew Miller slider we are seeing everyone throw it from all arm angles. The Sweeper is the Roger Beshens Football slider. If you have any question I have every answer cause I created what's happening in MLB with this football slider.
@@f430ferrari5 Why not? They're both tall slugging Right Fielders and Yankees named after Judge Judy. It's an easy mistake to make (I can't believe I remembered David was his first name though considering I regularly forget the names of people I actually know 😂)
My youngest brother hit an old baseball and uncorked it till it fell apart! We search for the middle cork and he hit it and from the houseyard to the cow pasture! It took 3/4 of an hour to find the cork of the baseball! There was alot of string though! This was about 25 years ago!
Great video, very eye opening! From the data you have presented and from understanding MLB is a business that generates enormous amounts of wealth for people it is only logical that they the powers that be would want to deliberately engineer the ball to achieve results to the game that will increase revenue for people. From a purists point of view this is utterly shameful and tarnishes the game, and all statistics during these periods of time.
I remember “juiced ball” was behind all of the offence in the 1990s. Turns out the ball wasn’t juiced, the players were. I’m thinking the same thing is going on today.
When they shutdown sports during the plandemic I went from a season ticket holder in baseball to not watching baseball at all. Best decision of my life.
Yep, same here. And the fact that they shove gay groomers in people's faces makes that decision even more sensible. At age 52 I've got a lot of great baseball memories, but I'm never going back.
Yeah, I am going to make the comment: If you don’t believe that Manfred had “goldilocks” balls for Judge and Pujols to hit on purpose, then you’re incredibly ignorant. Manfred wanted Pujols to smash home runs for ratings, and, again, for ratings, he wanted Judge to break the AL home run record. And, given how Judge has already been caught cheating this year against the Blue Jays, he knew damn well about the balls. Manfred is single-handedly ruining baseball. He needs to be fired.
This was a very good video. This matter should have been discussed more. But many journalists are Yankee fans in the east coast and didn’t wanted to cover anything that would risk another asterisks beside THIS record. (Could have been opposite if there was a battle and the contender were not yankee..) other wise this Goldilocks balls News have had exploded in the media. And besides, if it was an accident or production backlog due to pandemic, WHY, WHY did Manfred ever needed to deny so much if he was innocent. So MLB hanky panky and media
I don't believe Judge or players really knew but I know the organization had to know and actually approve the balls... No way the organization didnt know about this.
It ALL comes down to money..... you can bet on runs with more predictability than shut outs. You can see the shift as now, despite having many factors that slow down the game such as challenges, checking for stick-um, etc. they sped pitchers up with the pitch clock in order to stress them out and keep them from using sticky substances, which gives advantage to the offense, not defense just like every other sport
Not only can MLB manipulate the type of ball supplied to the games, but the ball clubs can also manipulate which balls are used. Within the supply of balls, there is variation. The club can put a clubhouse worker in charge of choosing the balls, and can alter them with temperature, handling, moisture content, storage conditions, etc. It is a known practice for a century. Second, I remember reading Justin Verlander's comments in 2019 and they only made sense and were reasonable. MLB thinks they are getting more fans with this nonsense, but they are only driving away their base fans. (Also, ESPN is only a cheerleader for MLB for the last 15 years. Their coverage makes me watch less baseball, not more.)
MLB robbed Ohtani of a second straight MVP. He should have had a three-peat MVP at the end of this season. Judge got a bunch of free home runs. He shouldn’t have gotten MVP over Ohtani even without his asterisk performance.
Considering rob Manfred is the guy that when he was asked if he’d strip the trophy from the PROVEN TO HAVE CHEATED Houston astros team, he said “it’s just a piece of metal” I’m not surprised that he has 0 integrity in every facet of his job.
I think this reveals how much of an advantage the Yankees have over everyone... Many things that add up. (To be clear, this is speculation, but it makes sense) 1. The Yankees have become a brand. The logo is a global symbol. It benefits MLB if the Yankees win. 2. Since the introduction of replay review, calls can't go in the Yankees favor as often. In 2009 the replay review was very new and it wasn't as evolved as it is now, but since then the Yankees haven't won a WS. 3. "Juiced balls" for Judge... Yankees (the face of baseball) needs something to keep fans, global appearance, what more than a homerun chase to try to break a record? It's good for business as mentioned in my 1st point.. I wouldn't be surprised if behind closed doors, MLB & the Yankees are cheating and it's revealed years down the road.
It's already been proven they were. The organization, and MLB, fought tooth and nail to keep the report from being released. They were literally court-ordered to release the letter documenting their cheating process, after which the media went full cover-up mode, and intentionally downplayed the issue. Case in point: you didn't know about it, and mindless New Yorkers will probably start screaming at me here for suggesting the team did anything wrong. Here's the worst part: Houston, everyone's favorite punching bag, did not begin their shenanigans until after they acquired a veteran Yankees player. The player in question pressured the team into adopting a method to steals signs, declaring them to be "behind the times" (which hints at a lot more things, but I digress). The Yankees essentially exported their cheating to Houston, then proceeded to claim innocence all while berating and/or physically assaulting anyone affiliated with the Astros organization. Then there's all the nonsense with the juiced balls and all the titles they won with juiced lineups. New York and their supporters (fans and media) suck.
Strike outs were up and batting averages were lower. So it also shows more players swing for the fences on every pitch and not change according to pitch count.
From his book "The Physics of Baseball" (1987), Robert Kemp Adair says that the stitches on a baseball act the same way as dimples on a golf ball: they induce turbulence at baseball velocities (50 MPH to 120 MPH), which decreases air resistance. In other words, lower seams do not inherently make baseballs travel further.
You sound like a young man. The truth is there has been variation of juiced baseballs since 1994. Also a reduced strike zone which really caused an offensive explosion. For one season I would love to see baseballs that were used in the 1960's and 1970's.
Definitely interesting! My personal opinion is that as long as they are all within regulation, I do not see a problem. Thanks for putting this together.
The mlb is as crooked as a dog's leg. These guys keep Pete rose out of the hall for betting on basketball yet they are caught literally trying to rig outcomes and are put in charge of investigating themselves and surprise, surprise. No wrongdoing was found. It's obvious that they were trying to script storybook endings in the cases of Pujols and Judge. Which if you think about it as far as someone betting on another sport. What they did is far worse. They are trying to script history. Knowing the revenues that would come with said script. If I was Shohei Ohtani, I would be furious to hear about the leagues tampering as it cost him back to back MVP titles. Let's face it he should have gotten MVP anyways but everyone kept saying Judge is doing something that hasn't been done in 60yrs. But it had been done, just not in the AL. My rebuttal is that Ohtani was doing things that had never been done before... The man could have won the Cy Young. A truer dual threat doesn't exist. The name of the award is most valuable player. That describes Ohtani to a tee. Imagine if he had a team around him last year. Unlike Judge who has played on an all-star team every year.
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I am 20 seconds in. I have never heard of this woman. But if she is a any type of thorn to bobby boy, she is my hero and will have my forever respect and gratitude.
Just another nosey broad
Women don't belong in men's sports.
Understand that if you disagree with me now, you will change your mind like I did if you have a worthwhile mind.
meredith wills is an iconic whistle blower
The problem with MLB is MLB
Yes.
Well said
Yea they’re not very transparent about anything
"fans" are just as a problem
The problem with rich people is people being rich.
I’ve met Dr. Wills and she’s super nice and crazy knowledgeable. Glad to see this video (and that it’s getting lots of views).
Of course you did Zack! 🤣😂 How many baseballs did you get from her for your ALREADY massive collection? How many balls from your collection did you hustle and trample kids for? 🤔🤔🙄🙄
I don’t need a scientist to tell me that mlb was juicing the balls! The fact that they put all of em under lock and key and kept the balls out of the hands of researchers should tell you everything.
Facts.
I don’t need another nosey broad to tell Me that
Yep, really as simple as that. If they were innocent, it would have been handled very differently.
No shit, hiding anything guys? Obvious fucks
Just grab a ball, on center grip, throw it like a football, stiff wrist...from all arm angles...That's the Roger Beshens influenced football slider from 2018 and the one Ohtani throws. Sweeper is my football slider. I got 8500 tweet since May 2018 about it. Some ML pitchers told me what game they threw it. I taught hundreds of ML pitchers, Glasnow, Musgrove, Taillon, Kuhl, Crick, Flaherty, Jordan Hicks...dozens more in 2018 that's when I taught these guys.
😂
The Pujols surge at the end of the season was strange. Kinda felt like he was being served up meatballs to get to 700, which is probably the case but mlb could have easily influenced it by making sure he got the denser balls as well. he also had the grandfathered “illegal” bat that everyone was crying about in the World Series. This isn’t a Pujols issue, it’s mlb doing what they can to appeal to casual fans. “DINGERS!!!”
Excellent point. I'm a Cards fan and loved seeing it, but I can easily see this being done. Who knows? And you know what else they could do? Feed specific teams these baseballs and maybe not the other during the same game. Or, both teams to screw over/unders with betting.
@@sortofanoakyafterbirth3661 now you're catching on
Yeah. It's weird that they don't understand how this works..
When you focus on attracting casual fans, you tend to ignore and push away real fans. And naturally, casual fans are just that and dont stick around..
They're really pushing away actual fans for people who dont care about the game..
The balls and the fact MLB stopped drug testing due to the lockout for three and a half months. Pujols decline was mostly due to injuries that didn't seem to be an issue in that final season...people thing PED use is mainly to get jacked but most are used to recover from injuries faster.
@@dokkwalk *Hmmm... sounds **_JUST_** like the current Bud Light fiasco.*
Manfred was betting on games, knowing where the juiced balls were being used. If the truth came out, he would be banned from baseball for life.
Kudos to Dr. Wills research. I am not a baseball fanatic but the truth is more than apparent. The commissioner should be shown the door.
This reminds me very much of the 90's Sosa-McGwire home run chase. MLB lapped up the attention and cast dispersions at reporters asking about bottles of Andro in their lockers. With waning relevance in the sports landscape, the league WANTED stars chasing big milestones for headlines. If they could put their finger on the scales, they damn well certainly would.
And when it was all said and done fed Alex Rodriguez to the wolves to try to save face
*aspersions (not dispersions) FTFY
Nailed it here with your comment. Baseball desperately needed the PR boost after the strike debacle and they set up the perfect storm to get us back....
Roids + Juiced Balls + Home Runs = Getting The Fans Back To The Ballpark & Watching On TV.
The ball was also changed during the strike. It changed manufacturing countries during that time frame. After the strike they wanted to bring fans back into the sport. Which is why more than just juiced players were hitting record numbers of HRs
I’ve been saying this for some time. I’ve been an avid baseball fan for decades. The home run is becoming too common. There was a very special feeling that came with home runs when they were less prevalent. I honestly miss that feeling.
Right on. I was just saying the same thing to my dad. At this point, they may as well just have home run derbies because nobody cares about the actual game play.
I guess it’s different for everybody but I love the new baseball, all the new rules make the game actually watchable like who wants to watch a 4 hour game for the game to still be 0-0 or 1-1, that’s mainly why baseball was dying
This has been going on since at least the late 90s early 2000s. As my friends and I would go to a lot of A’s games and we would get to the stadium early to watch BP and between that and foul balls and in game HRs after a few seasons we had a’lot of MLB balls.
After a while we had so many MLB balls we would take them to our local fields and play with them along with our everyday standard sporting good baseballs.
When one of us would ripped an unusually far HR almost every time it was with the official MLB balls…
I also spent a lot of time at the coliseum during that era. I miss the $2 Dew Zone tickets.
This explains Pujols power surge the 2nd half of last season. He was hitting but not bombing them like he did later in the year.
Not entirely. Pujols entering the HR Derby did something too. I'm sure there were situations where the ball played a part but ever since the derby his timing was way more direct. Him entering the HR Derby was the best thing that's happened to baseball in recent times
It's ultimately about money, juice the balls juice the attendance , more fans more money more jerseys are sold, hats etc. They were trying to adjust their strategies as the season went on like juiced balls for historic homerun hitters then altered balls when they had few pitchers in big games get more strike outs , but mostly these changes benefited hitters as there clearly is a crack down against pitchers ie: spit balls resin patches and anything to get a advantage or edge to counter the juiced balls that the hitters enjoyed. Now as we know they are inspecting pitchers gloves and hands at the end of each inning. Baseball can be a boring drawn out game and at some level you would understand why they play around like this but at the same time it's hypocritical of MLB to juice balls but crack down on juiced bats or scuffed balls that some pitchers use to do in the old days or maybe they still do. Notice there are no more 20 game winners in baseball that use to be a true measure of a ace pitcher now it's specialist relievers, designated hitters ( which I like) but you get the point tinkering can lead to failure or miss trust the only winners in this is MLB just look at their profits, but what really bothers me is the leagues behavior and denials they are no different than politicians who can't go an hour without lying to somebody.
Except attendances are down down down and more and more people aren’t watching on tv
I find this story very interesting. In my youth the balls would stay in play until the cover was knocked off or the stitching popped. Pitchers said as the game continued the covers became just loose enough the leather could be pushed to make it less aerodynamic. That gave off-speed and junk ball pitchers a greater advantage. Sliders, screwballs, and knuckleballs had an unique place in their bag of tricks. The ball manufacturing changed somewhere between the 80s and 2000s. The current controversy would not be such a big deal if the balls changed just once. Three times in five years is a big difference. Making the ball slightly smaller and causing injury to pitchers is enough to cry "Foul Ball" on the commissioner, the league, and the owners who sat back idly watching all this happen. The league has enough multi-million dollar pitchers that could file a class action lawsuit.
Lawsuit for what, MLB can make the baseball however they want, it's their league, and their ball.
They also swept the Astros cheating in 2019 under the rug. The Nationals were told by multiple teams the Astros were stealing signs at home in 2019, so they used a system of switching signs every inning and the Astros couldn't hit at home, lost all 4 games. Also, rumor was for games in Washington the Astros had people on a hotel roof terrace across the street from center field watching the catcher with binoculars and stealing signs....the Astros hit the cover off the bsll in Washington and won all those games(3). I would call that BS except for the fact I worked on that building when it was being built and yes, you can see home plate from the roof terrace.
The Nationals won that World Series.
Yup now there is a new ball for every single pitch thrown it's ridiculous
Just keep the ball in play until it's knocked out of the stadium
Hey amazing video man! This was incredibly well narrated, edited, and paced. Keep it up.
Well said
The juiced balls don't only benefit the hitter but they work against the pitcher. Lower seams, less drag, less possible movement and velocity from the pitcher. So even though players like Judge hit no doubters, the actual pitch was less effective and likely seen better by the batter.
Dumbest take I've ever read. Pitchers are throwing harder than ever lmao.
Offense is up a bit only because of the rule changes this year
"Lower seams, less drag, less possible movement and velocity from the pitcher" That's not how it works. Less drag produces less movement, but also more velocity.
The shape and size of the ball may have also contributed to the insane amount of Tommy John surgeries across the same span. Smaller balls and flatter seams make breaking pitches much more difficult to throw
What I don't understand is why wouldn't they just let the batters cork their bats instead. How can you condemn one guy for hitting with a corked bat and celebrate another for hitting a juiced ball? There is no difference morally and ethically. You're manipulating the equipment from original design to improve the distance a ball will travel while being hit. Wouldn't the ball juicing be the most morally corrupt of the two principles because not only are you giving the batter an advantage, but you're also disable the pitchers ability to throw and causing them injuries? Corking a bat doesn't affect the pitcher at all.
They made this way worse than what it could have been. All they had to say is they were experimenting with different balls and to get accurate data for pros the need the pros to use them and they are adjusting according to the data. Controversy gone
yeah lol literally transparency would solve everything
Not just that but they literally put the balls under lock and key and even wouldnt let researchers do it. I honestly am starting to feel all sports are pretty corrupt. The nfl literally said fuck and made a bunch of rules to take most of the defense and running game out the league. Hockey would be really hard to do. Idek how you could in hockey because there’s not much margin there. Unless you literally had the players in on it. Which no matter how anyone tries to argue sports are staged, you wouldnt be able to keep thousand of players a year shut up forever.
@@Tampafan33 Not just that but the NFL changed from being a sports league to a sports entertainment league about a decade ago because a class action lawsuit that was being threatened by a group of gamblers looking into whether they colluded with outcomes of games through officiating, by changing their definition from sports league to sports entertainment, it means even if they are colluding into games outcomes, then gamblers cant sue because they are sports entertainment which by its definition does not guarantee that the outcomes are not fixed, only other major sports league that uses that same definition is the WWE.
2:50 _"When baseballs get used, the outside of the ball starts to wear down. The leather gets rougher. The seams get higher. And the ball starts to lose its shape. These things all add drag to the ball. Which means that the ball isn't able to travel through the air as well. But if you're able to keep the ball rounder and more compact, you can get a few feet of extra distance on any fly ball."_
When I was a kid, the same ball stayed in play, inning to inning, until it was hit into the seats. Now they switch balls after nearly every pitch. Why is that? Is that MLB's idea? Because it fits perfectly into the theory mentioned here.
yup - definitely. I'd even go further and invite this woman to help with the 'research'... all in efforts to speed up the game, make it more exciting / entertaining of course.
Thanks for this man! Earned a sub from me. My kiddo and I have had many a discussion of the blankery around the ball. We both agree that integrity in sports is at an all time low and keeps going down.
@johndoh4573yes.
@johndoh4573Because it’s so ridiculous 😂😂😂. Baseball thrives when it’s bush league.
Oh sh*t I've been wanting to learn more about the "juiced balls". Thanks for this. IIRC the MLB was switching up the balls without notice during the 2021 season which makes the Braves WS victory even more impressive in my mind 😁
I think it’s more impressive that they actually beat the Astros straight up lol, as far as the ball was concerned, they all faced the same issues
If Soler's ball ever lands, maybe someone can test it
What’s crazy is even with juiced balls , the home run record wasn’t broken. Guess juiced guys beat juiced balls 😂
But doesn’t that mean the mlb could’ve juiced balls for the Braves and not Astros? I’m sure they didn’t want the Astros to win for PR reasons
Imagine if the balls were juiced in the 90s…
The league totals would be interesting
If anyone thinks MLB haven't done it on purpose they have rocks in their heads
Damnit, I love this channel. I love how you'll be making a super professional and educational video and just randomly drop in "moot fuckin point." Never change. This is what sports channels need.
@@realtalk4596 Yeahhhhhh; Astro-physicians are quite stupid people…
I've seen more homeruns hit by batters way out in front and completely off balance the last few years than the previous 30 years combined. That's all i need to know.
I just bumped into this video...great job! I am a _very_ tough marker, but this is very impressive. Informative, well-paced, and absolutely brilliant use of B-roll, particularly when showing outfielders initially going too deep in the 2019 World Series. I'm very impressed, and look forward to watching more of your videos.
Ohtani is the only one that is negatively affected by this ball incidents in 2022. In other words, he was robbed.
Thats why he is ROB Manfred…
Lmfaoooo you really live in delusion…
The funny thing in '98 they want you to concentrate on the players that were "juiced" when in fact the home run race happened because of juiced balls.
Judge benefited from juiced balls as he received the majority of them. Just shows how even more amazing Shohei is with his regular 450 ft HRs.
Let’s not forget, at this time was also fighting unstable pitchers. Smaller seams and smoother balls means less movement on the balls. Which was a problem with the new RPMs the pitchers were reaching.
As a kid, I was primarily a pitcher
A "juiced" ball can be dangerous in several ways, less reaction time for the pitcher on balls lined back to the mound, denser impact on hit batters, and pitcher's injuring their arms overthrowing as they try to compensate
If Major League Baseball finds an acceptable ball for competition, then PLEASE keep it consistent
Both for reasonable competition, and for player safety
Nah. Let them have golf ball physics and aluminum bats. Want to see some 700 foot dingers.
@David.. sorry, as a former pitcher I have to say nope to both
Do you start every comment with you’re a former pitcher ?
@LouieiuoL1223 not every comment, ("glory days" I guess 🤭) but just for context
A pitcher is the closest player in front of the batter, so a juiced ball will affect him 1st
People don’t watch baseball for the pitching lol…… if they do ? Then I’m sorry
I remember pitchers feeling the balls, and knowing they were wrong, too dense or small, several years ago. There are even clips of pitchers refusing to use certain balls and calling it out as juiced, and causing big drama. The umps were suspiciously fast to replace the ball, and the teams were quick to retrieve the ball (destroy the evidence).
I believe a main reason Mlb can't admit juicing the ball is it might affect a judge's $$$ decision if a fan gets hit by a foul line drive.
Speaking of judge... they gave him a specific box of balls to sign 🤨
It’s PAST TIME to REMOVE the WHOLE MLB board. The research is BEYOND refutable. ALL 30 teams should be calling an emergency meeting to make this happen. It’s OBVIOUS the commissioner is NOT qualified to do the job. His actions should be considered GROSS INCOMPETENCE !!
I’ve been waiting for a video like this!! Can’t believe there is no independent organizations that can keep these professional leagues honest.
I am a 'light' fan of baseball and played all bases in High School. First I have heard of this issue and is quite dis-heartening. With all the corruption We hear around the world , I hate to see this type [or any] of greed/corruption in America.
Balls were always juiced every few decades or so, beginning in 1920. Before that, it was the 'dead ball" era. Babe Ruth hit a record 60 homers in 1927. The other significant decade was 1960s, when Roger Maris broke the record with 61 in 1961. It went slightly up and down the next few decades, until the steroid era of the late 90s - early 00s threw everything off kilter.
This story shows us how probably most _everything_ has been corrupted in the United States. It's a microcosm of how our government "works" (for some). In fact, corruption seems to be the _only thing_ that "trickles down" from that very same source.
MLB baseball "scientists" are like Big Oil "scientists" are like Big Pharma "scientists." 😝
You sweet soul, Las Vegas and sports are entertainment. Sports betting has replaced the stock market at this point. It's insane how normalized it is now players are getting suspended like a it's a hot piss test for betting on how many yards thierteam will rush....it's controlled.
You hate to see this in America? My guy, you haven't been paying attention then.
Is this also why we have tons of pitchers consistently throwing 100 mph now? Seemed like we had just a handful that could do that every once in a while back in the 90s.
This is PRECISELY why. COLLEGE kids hit triple digits like it's Sunday in the park. Back in the '60s and '70s, maybe Nolan Ryan hit 99. Virtually NO one could touch the century mark. These juiced balls in college combined with the BB core bats threaten to ruin the game but worse, possibly kill someone with the speed the ball comes off the bat.
I really think that is the reason! Not an anomaly any more….
Never give an organization all facets of production, doesnt end well
Manfred is the head of a crime syndicate, the bugsy Siegel of baseball
Manfred is using different balls in the post season so they can influence who wins in October. They juiced Judge’s 2022 balls and Pujols too. This is a threat to the game more so than the black sox scandal or Pete Rose betting on games. Changing the balls in games, in season, and most likely to control who wins. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is giving teams like SD and the Mets more deadballs to punish them for spending big in free agency and driving up player salaries.
.....what? Manfred wouldn't punish them for spending and the owners who employ him certainly wouldn't allow him to do that...
@@scottb3034 Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, but it’s in the owners best interest to keep salaries down. That’s why they got angry at Cohen after agreeing to a deal with Carlos Correa.
@@SeanMc8181 No, it's in their best interest to keep revenues up, fans engaged, work stoppages to a minimum, etc. and a big step toward that is providing some contractual monetary concessions to some of the elite players. The Yankees, who are the most profitable franchise in baseball, have had no issues with their policy to overpay players. Revenue sharing not only limits profits a bit for bigger franchises but makes smaller markets more lucrative and competitive IN SPENDING....on contracts...so everyone gets a piece of the pie and it is designed to make big contracts less of an issue. If it ever were an issue they'd push hard to put in a hard salary cap in the CBA. The MLB also gets much more of the revenue than the MLBPA, they aren't hurting for revenues overall as a league. The only reason they truly care about suppressing salaries is extreme greed....not because of their fiscal health.
And the owners aren't pissed at Cohen for Correa's contract which was not even the biggest in the league (and they won't be pissed when Ohtani resets the market very soon). They are pissed at Cohen because he is an abrasive douche that's also pretty controversial away from the MLB (heck, he's basically a criminal) while most owners are conservative. NBA owners hated Mark Cuban and NFL owners despised Al Davis for a long time for their brashness. Even all that said, they would NOT punish one of their own under pretty much any circumstance and it would never happen after a contract (didn't happen when the Padres signed Machado nor when the Phillies signed Harper...nor when the Rangers signed A-Rod....then the Yankees when they resigned A-Rod, Angels when they kept Trout, etc).
@@scottb3034 He Misses Bud the Mobster and Small Market Clubs being the losers and Big Market teams being the Winners.
I'm not a baseball fan, I'm more a knowledgeable underdog against a tyrannical system fan. And deammmnn you outlined the story quite well!
Glad I found this video in my recommendations! Very well put together video and highly informative.
Thank you, appreciate the kind words!
Fascinating. Brilliant presentation. Excellent work!
A baseball fan in Congress should introduce a bill to remove baseball's exemption in light of the issue with the ball and MLB's reticence to be honest about it and set it right. While "The Diamond" doesn't want to imply nefarious intent, it cannot be ruled out.
MLB with Bud Selig as commissioner turned a blind eye towards PED's during the 90's because the Bonds, Sosa and Mcguire homerun derbys were bringing more fans to the parks. Even when it became obvious what was going on MLB denied everything. Not until the public backlash became so severe did it force MLB to change. The backlash was very severe as we now have a generation of players that have hall of fame career numbers who will not be voted into the hall of fame, at least not during their lifetimes. This is the big black mark on Seligs tenure. Fast forward to today, since MLB can no longer allow the juicing of players, it has found a way to juice the baseball. It appears the current commissioner wants to add his own black mark to his tenure. Homers bring fans to the parks (at least that is how MLB sees it). The current dimensions of most new ballparks are very hitter friendly, combine this with a juiced baseball and you can see why pitching staffs are under a lot of stress. Personally, I hate cheap home runs as it really takes away from the game. A homerun should signify a real athletic accomplishment and that is what is being threatened. It removes the elite athlete level of performance. It is the equivalent of having an 8ft basket for NBA players. MLB should publish a standard of performance for the baseball that is timeless. The beauty of baseball is that it has a timeless aspect to it. Then let the athletes perform. A juiced golf ball has really ruined professional golf, lets prevent this from happening to Baseball. Having an average player belt 30 plus home runs is not good for baseball but that is becoming the new norm. All MLB needs to do is have sample batches of balls independently tested during the season to keep tolerances and performance within a range. Consistent performance is what the sport and fans deserve and want. If MLB is going to continue with the farce of a juiced ball then they might as well go all in with aluminum bats painted to look like wooden ones.
MLB: Barry Bonds shouldn't be in the HoF because we think he juiced. MLB: The Barry Bonds era helped save baseball. We should juice the balls.
Bonds gets all the hate because he is both abrasive as heck and black. Playing for the Giants of all teams doesn't help as the Giants are the black sheep of the high end market.
@@Redpoppy80 I have noticed that. Why are they the black sheep?
@@FinalB055 I don't think it's any one reason but a combination. First and probably most important is that FOX NEWS and right-wing media smears San Francisco at least once a week as a exhibit A in the failure of Liberal policies. Meanwhile, the Giants staff are rather into more left-wing talking points while majority owner Charles Johnson is a major Republican simp. At the same time, San Francisco itself is a dive in many areas with homeless camps on major streets and under most overhangs while poor people are begging for money to get a meal or get wasted. Add to all of that, is the complete lack of any coverage from national baseball media because it is on the west coast and unlike the Dodgers or Padres who not only buy a lot of media puff pieces but also sport national superstars, compared to the Giants who don't have those superstars and refuse to buy media presence and you end up with the black sheep of the high-end market.
If the Giants want a superstar then they would have to pay at least 10 percent more than another team to land them and with how overinflated the top-end market is and the Giants thrift spending, I just don't think it will be possible to buy a superstar. All of these things leave the Giants polorized to where you love them or hate them and that is a terrible place to be.
@@Redpoppy80I'm pretty sure race had nothing to do with it...
@@randomstuff508 Oh it does.
Manfred's dodging of questions about the baseballs gives a 'where there's smoke there's fire' look to the whole thing, and unfortunately casts a shade over player accomplishments. I have no doubt that Judge is a great power hitter, but his two greatest power-hitting seasons come in ones notorious for ball issues, with one of them including questions about balls pitched specifically to him. And Pujols... well he sure made an incredible comeback last year after so many poor ones. Highest AVG since 2014, highest HR/AB since 2016... Hard to believe it's all coincidence.
I have been yelling from the mountaintops about the juiced ball since 1995. After baseball lost the world series in 94, suddenly 21 players hit 30+ homeruns. In 96, that number jumps to 43 players. In 1998, 13 guys hit over 40 with 4 hitting 50+. Shortly after, baseball found a scapegoat in steroid abuse. And sure thats part of it, but guys like Ken Griffey Jr, who was squeaky clean hit 56 two years in a row. Between 1977 and 1990 exactly zero major leaguers hit 50 or more homers. I contend that the ball was juiced in the early 90s, then after the strike, mlb tightened it even further. They then again reverted to a dead ball after the steroid scandal in order to clearly lay blame on PEDs. My 2 cents.
Jesus. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I wouldn't put it past them. MLB has always been the most mafia-like of all the major US sports.
George Foster hit 50 in 1977.
@delarel Foster was the man. And nobody hit 50 after him until Cecil Fielder in 1990. Baseball went back and forth between juiced and dead ball eras.
Imagine being so bad that you're becoming a worse commissioner than BUD SELIG. Although that's obviously from the fan perspective, he's a mouthpiece for the owners at the end of the day. And in that regard, he's doing a damn good job.
Yeah…😅 two years ago I put out a video about how people forget how bad Bud Selig was, and I said that kindred wasn’t the worst *yet*. But now, he just keeps pushing himself closer to that line every day
There has a never, in my lifetime, been a league commissioner, for any major US sports league, that was NOT a bag of shit.
Manfred was betting on games, knowing where the juiced balls were being used. If the truth came out, he would be banned from baseball for life.
And Selig had both juiced balls and players.
Great Video man you come off really well not robotic but still being able to keep a facinating and coherent story in a well researched and facinating plot
I can’t find info re: Montana state university at Bozeman’s accreditation in either a masters or PhD program for Physics. Main campus has a PHD in philosophy and an MS in Physics On their website. Has anyone ever actually looked at this? What was her defense in out of curiosity? I see her focus but I can’t find a paper. Which is normally available given PHD students are published and professors to some degree during studies. I figured someone found the answer and I’ve been digging for a while.
Juiced balls in Yankee Stadium surely impacted the MVP race.
Yeah, if Judge had hit 62 dingers an average of 455 feet it would have totally made the difference. That extra 5 feet and one close-call Homer absolutely swung it.
I get hating the Yankees but Judge had a phenomenal season and baseball was never not going to acknowledge that. Breaking a record that old and that storied (basically the most renowned in sports) made him a shoo-in. Ohtani will win plenty of MVPs, Judge did something that he (nor anyone) won't be able to repeat for a long while. Let him have it
Big cards fan here. been crying all season so far. glad i found your channel to cheer me up
We can (quietly) assume that they are giving the Cardinals pitchers the juiced balls, and their opponents the dead balls.
I only half kid. That bullpen is atrocious and their starters are very mid.
The fact manfred thought he could change the ball and no one would figure it out shows what he thinks of us as fans. He then tries to whitewash any proof that even a 10 yr old could see and feel in ball differences.
This should be investigated by Congress as fraudulent practices
Forever, it seems, I was always wondering how so many foul balls that were SMOKED line drives that you have about one second to react to, were not causing more accidental injuries or wprse even to fans along the sidelines. I think it was because(my thinking about this) my grandfather, my dad, and my brother and myself were at a day game in `78 or 79 at Yankee Stadium sitting in right field about 10 rows back from that low wall, the shortest distance from HP, it was nuts. Reggie Jackson hit a line drive home run right at us, the ball was at us before I could hear the report from his bat!! My grandfather instinctively put up his right hand to grab the ball. The sound of it hitting his hand was like a slap to the face from friggin Thor, or a person hitting water flat faced from 20 ft. in the air!! He cursed instantly and loud, and I never heard him curse in my life. My dad was sure his hand was broken all over. But grandpa just shook his hand and blew on it for a while, no broken bones. So how do people way closer and not giving full attention not get outright killed? With the ball so hard and tightly wound, I know a pitcher will die very soon from a comebacker screaming right at his face at 120 mph. My dear baseball friends, It is just a matter of time. I think , before this season ends, a pitcher will get hit and lose his life. I hope I am wrong. I pray that I am wrong!
I recently worked for Rawlings in Washington Missouri, and it's funny you bring this up, because there were old balls that were to never be touched, but if you took one out it was blatantly obvious something was much different. The balls are all made in Porto Rico and are stamped when they get to the warehouse. They did it all to sensationalize the sport
The only part of this that matters AT ALL is the fact that it makes it easier to rig games. If all the balls were the same it wouldnt matter if they were juiced. MLB can make the balls however they want. But we dont need certain teams potentially gaining an advantage, especially with sports gambling being so big. Umpires do it. Tell me the guy who called a balk in the 7-7 HOU/LAD game the other day wasnt up to something potentially. Anyone watch the old Livan Hernandez playoff game vs ATL? It was clear.
Parallel to the Volkswagen diesel scandal. Reminds me of the line in Casablanca: "I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find gambling going on in this establishment."
huh, and I thought only the cops got to investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing
In 2018 I introduced My Football Slider to MLB Pitchers, this deadly slider cut down on home runs and pitchers K per IP went from 8 to 12 in many cases. I taught Glasnow, Musgrove, Taillon, Kuhl, Crick, Flaherty, Fried, Jordan Hicks and dozens of others, to try my Grip, Tilt and Wrist action to help them go from avg ML pitchers to Elite. I told them Try my On center grip, Throw it like a football, Stiff wrist....I changed the MLB landscape starting in May 2018. Ohtani throws the Roger Beshens influenced football slider they now call the sweeper. I taught Joe MAddon it in Chicago back in May 2018 along with Aaron Boone. I also taught Matt Blake and Ethan Katz my football slider in May 2018, they got hired to exclusively teach my football slider. In May 2018 I exposed the Andrew Miller slider we are seeing everyone throw it from all arm angles. The Sweeper is the Roger Beshens Football slider. If you have any question I have every answer cause I created what's happening in MLB with this football slider.
Justice was coddled.
Shohei Ohtani real MVP. 👍
I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets Aaron Judge and David Justice mixed up now and again 😂
@@qwerty722 🤣🤣🤣. Thanks. Sho got no Justice and got Judged wrong last year. 😁
@@qwerty722 I can’t believe I did that. 😂
@@f430ferrari5 Why not? They're both tall slugging Right Fielders and Yankees named after Judge Judy. It's an easy mistake to make (I can't believe I remembered David was his first name though considering I regularly forget the names of people I actually know 😂)
My youngest brother hit an old baseball and uncorked it till it fell apart! We search for the middle cork and he hit it and from the houseyard to the cow pasture! It took 3/4 of an hour to find the cork of the baseball! There was alot of string though! This was about 25 years ago!
Home runs are boring.
Great video, very eye opening! From the data you have presented and from understanding MLB is a business that generates enormous amounts of wealth for people it is only logical that they the powers that be would want to deliberately engineer the ball to achieve results to the game that will increase revenue for people. From a purists point of view this is utterly shameful and tarnishes the game, and all statistics during these periods of time.
If I were commissioner, I’d hire Dr. Wills as MLB quality control guru.
I remember “juiced ball” was behind all of the offence in the 1990s. Turns out the ball wasn’t juiced, the players were. I’m thinking the same thing is going on today.
Did anyone notice that dudes cocaine nails putting those baseballs together at the end of the video..? Haha
When they shutdown sports during the plandemic I went from a season ticket holder in baseball to not watching baseball at all. Best decision of my life.
Yep, same here. And the fact that they shove gay groomers in people's faces makes that decision even more sensible. At age 52 I've got a lot of great baseball memories, but I'm never going back.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant. All MLB had to do is let everyone check the balls. But the secrecy is just a red flag.
Yeah, I am going to make the comment: If you don’t believe that Manfred had “goldilocks” balls for Judge and Pujols to hit on purpose, then you’re incredibly ignorant. Manfred wanted Pujols to smash home runs for ratings, and, again, for ratings, he wanted Judge to break the AL home run record. And, given how Judge has already been caught cheating this year against the Blue Jays, he knew damn well about the balls. Manfred is single-handedly ruining baseball. He needs to be fired.
This was a very good video. This matter should have been discussed more. But many journalists are Yankee fans in the east coast and didn’t wanted to cover anything that would risk another asterisks beside THIS record. (Could have been opposite if there was a battle and the contender were not yankee..) other wise this Goldilocks balls News have had exploded in the media. And besides, if it was an accident or production backlog due to pandemic, WHY, WHY did Manfred ever needed to deny so much if he was innocent.
So MLB hanky panky and media
They were still using it last year in several Yankees games all to benefit Judge.
Pujols
Proof? Or you just salty
Dumb take
first video I've seen from you and its top tier quality, very well done
Now look what Ohtani is doing this year. Makes you wonder if the Angels are getting the juiced ball this year.
If the players didn't have any knowledge beforehand that the balls were juiced, then you really can't say that they were cheating.
I don't believe Judge or players really knew but I know the organization had to know and actually approve the balls... No way the organization didnt know about this.
The MLB didn't overlook it. They knew it all along.
Gotta love fellow women baseball fans and rebels. Anarchy in the MLB (I doubt she’s a fellow Anarchist but who knows)!
It ALL comes down to money..... you can bet on runs with more predictability than shut outs. You can see the shift as now, despite having many factors that slow down the game such as challenges, checking for stick-um, etc. they sped pitchers up with the pitch clock in order to stress them out and keep them from using sticky substances, which gives advantage to the offense, not defense just like every other sport
Ye man field gave the Yankees the juiced. Balls so he admitted this so shouldn't he take away Aaron judges hr record
Not only can MLB manipulate the type of ball supplied to the games, but the ball clubs can also manipulate which balls are used. Within the supply of balls, there is variation. The club can put a clubhouse worker in charge of choosing the balls, and can alter them with temperature, handling, moisture content, storage conditions, etc. It is a known practice for a century.
Second, I remember reading Justin Verlander's comments in 2019 and they only made sense and were reasonable. MLB thinks they are getting more fans with this nonsense, but they are only driving away their base fans. (Also, ESPN is only a cheerleader for MLB for the last 15 years. Their coverage makes me watch less baseball, not more.)
Judge is a cheater. Idk about Pujols.
Lmaoooo your average smooth brain Yankee hater
Commissioner Manfred seems awfully crooked,
MLB robbed Ohtani of a second straight MVP. He should have had a three-peat MVP at the end of this season. Judge got a bunch of free home runs. He shouldn’t have gotten MVP over Ohtani even without his asterisk performance.
cry more, little girl
As someone who doesn’t watch baseball, is the MLB fixing games or just trying to make the sport more interesting?
Considering rob Manfred is the guy that when he was asked if he’d strip the trophy from the PROVEN TO HAVE CHEATED Houston astros team, he said “it’s just a piece of metal” I’m not surprised that he has 0 integrity in every facet of his job.
Oh yeah the Astros was doing the same thing as other teams but Yankees paid man field to cover there cheating up so did the dodgers
NOTHING in our world surprises me anymore … LITERALLY!!! 🥴
I think this reveals how much of an advantage the Yankees have over everyone... Many things that add up. (To be clear, this is speculation, but it makes sense)
1. The Yankees have become a brand. The logo is a global symbol. It benefits MLB if the Yankees win.
2. Since the introduction of replay review, calls can't go in the Yankees favor as often. In 2009 the replay review was very new and it wasn't as evolved as it is now, but since then the Yankees haven't won a WS.
3. "Juiced balls" for Judge... Yankees (the face of baseball) needs something to keep fans, global appearance, what more than a homerun chase to try to break a record? It's good for business as mentioned in my 1st point..
I wouldn't be surprised if behind closed doors, MLB & the Yankees are cheating and it's revealed years down the road.
It's already been proven they were. The organization, and MLB, fought tooth and nail to keep the report from being released. They were literally court-ordered to release the letter documenting their cheating process, after which the media went full cover-up mode, and intentionally downplayed the issue. Case in point: you didn't know about it, and mindless New Yorkers will probably start screaming at me here for suggesting the team did anything wrong.
Here's the worst part: Houston, everyone's favorite punching bag, did not begin their shenanigans until after they acquired a veteran Yankees player. The player in question pressured the team into adopting a method to steals signs, declaring them to be "behind the times" (which hints at a lot more things, but I digress). The Yankees essentially exported their cheating to Houston, then proceeded to claim innocence all while berating and/or physically assaulting anyone affiliated with the Astros organization.
Then there's all the nonsense with the juiced balls and all the titles they won with juiced lineups.
New York and their supporters (fans and media) suck.
Why is it a problem when the ball is the same for everyone?
Judge's team record is a joke.
Awesome job. Such a great channel!
If I remember correctly, Rob Manfred also took issue with the reporter who discovered Mark McGwire’s steroid use.
Strike outs were up and batting averages were lower. So it also shows more players swing for the fences on every pitch and not change according to pitch count.
Great username
Outstanding video summary on this issue !
I would think that pitchers would almost immediately notice any slight difference in a baseball.
Sounds like the Canadian government. We investigated ourselves and found no conflict of interest or suspicious behaviour.
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I'm surprised that people are surprised that pro sports are crooked!
From his book "The Physics of Baseball" (1987), Robert Kemp Adair says that the stitches on a baseball act the same way as dimples on a golf ball: they induce turbulence at baseball velocities (50 MPH to 120 MPH), which decreases air resistance. In other words, lower seams do not inherently make baseballs travel further.
Ohtani should of been MVP again.
This was a well informed and fluid documentary. You have a new subscriber.
You sound like a young man. The truth is there has been variation of juiced baseballs since 1994. Also a reduced strike zone which really caused an offensive explosion. For one season I would love to see baseballs that were used in the 1960's and 1970's.
Don't forget the rabbit ball in 1987. Wade Boggs hit 24 jacks that year.
Definitely interesting! My personal opinion is that as long as they are all within regulation, I do not see a problem. Thanks for putting this together.
The mlb is as crooked as a dog's leg. These guys keep Pete rose out of the hall for betting on basketball yet they are caught literally trying to rig outcomes and are put in charge of investigating themselves and surprise, surprise. No wrongdoing was found. It's obvious that they were trying to script storybook endings in the cases of Pujols and Judge. Which if you think about it as far as someone betting on another sport. What they did is far worse. They are trying to script history. Knowing the revenues that would come with said script. If I was Shohei Ohtani, I would be furious to hear about the leagues tampering as it cost him back to back MVP titles. Let's face it he should have gotten MVP anyways but everyone kept saying Judge is doing something that hasn't been done in 60yrs. But it had been done, just not in the AL. My rebuttal is that Ohtani was doing things that had never been done before... The man could have won the Cy Young. A truer dual threat doesn't exist. The name of the award is most valuable player. That describes Ohtani to a tee. Imagine if he had a team around him last year. Unlike Judge who has played on an all-star team every year.