Hmmm, it seems like MLB might have a new controversy they are going to need to navigate. Bradford William Davis of eyeblack got hold of emails between MLB, league-commissioned scientists, and Rawlings leadership where it appears MLB has been attempting to engineer a "home run rate."
On October 17, 2019, current executive vice president Morgan Sword, instructed Rawlings executives to build and maintain a baseball capable of supporting what he called a “target leaguewide home run rate,” an email you can read in full here:
It has been known that MLB was tinkering with the baseball, but back in 2019 that was not the case. 2019 was an experience as a baseball fan, as the balls FLEW that year, with 14 teams setting home run records and 1200 more home runs happening that year. Then in 2020 we had a "dead" ball. Rather than make one ball or the other, or hell even a combo of the two, MLB instead kept producing the 2019 and 2020 balls, with the writer actually helping in an investigation (led by Dr. Meredith Wills, an independent astrophysicist and researcher) which showed that MLB was juicing and deadening its games.
They did not stop the investigation there, though, and continued to follow the trail.
Then, using batch codes printed underneath each Rawlings’ baseball’s leather cover, Wills also revealed when the manufacturer’s Turrialba, Costa Rica factory made each baseball. By identifying when the plant made juiced balls, and when it assembled dead ones, Wills successfully reverse-engineered the company’s production schedule and showed how methodically MLB switched between making its two baseballs.
As a result of the investigation, Davis and Wills were able to forensically prove that MLB was lying when they said that the two balls being used were due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The "old" balls were not old inventory like Commissioner Manfred said and were actually balls made in 2020 and 2021 (while this study was being done).
The graph below shows the drag these balls have, and since June, you can see it has absolutely cratered. It is getting closer and closer to the 2019 level and bucks the trend of stability and being within a narrow range.
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