I want to know what happened to "There's No Crying in Baseball" because right now the Mets are crying. In recent years there has been a lot of speculation that MLB has made changes to the ball in attempt to cut back on record setting home run seasons. Maybe it's true, it is possible since the league owns the company that makes the official ball, Rawlings.
The Mets are an interesting statistic with hit-by-pitch an it is hard to ignore and Mets starter Chris Bassitt isn't mincing words about it.
"MLB has a very big problem with the baseballs," Bassitt said. "They are bad. Everyone knows it. Every pitcher in the league knows it. MLB doesn’t give a damn about it. They don’t care. We have told them our problems with them. They don’t care."
"I know guys around the league have been talking, so (those comments) didn’t really surprise me," Taillon said. "But I don’t think this is some grand scheme by MLB trying to mess up the game or anything. I think they’re trying their best to find a sweet spot here with the ball, and hopefully we can get there."
So Taillon says it hasn't impacted his game and Aaron Boone is also saying that it isn't a "big" topic of conversation in the clubhouse. Are the doctored balls possible? Sure, MLB and Rawlings are undeniably intertwined and maybe that is an issue to address. Maybe that would calm some tension.
Or maybe it won't. Maybe the Mets will continue to cry. Maybe other teams will cry with them. Now we will all sit back and see if the Mets continue to be leaders in the hit-by-pitch category. We will have to wait and see....and hopefully hear less crying for crying out loud!
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