DUNEDIN, Fla. — The memo on “sticky stuff,” to all 30 clubs was a clear warning to pitchers everywhere. • Inspections of pitchers would be “more vigilant and unpredictable” than in the past. • ...

Dwight "Doc" Gooden pitching for the New York Mets. The former Cy Young winner says pitchers using sticky substances—legal or otherwise—has "been going on forever." The only foreign substance ...

First it was steroids, then it was sign-stealing and now it’s the “glue ball”. Major league baseball once again is at the center of an on-the-field scandal with broad off-the-field implications for ...

Two weeks ago, when New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole didn’t deny using Spider Tack to increase his spin on pitches, it was a big day in baseball. Clips of him sputtering through an interminable ...

Armed with a fastball that can hum at 100 mph into the late innings, and an array of other plus-pitches, New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole’s talent, and ability to create spin on the baseball, has made ...

While most major league pitchers use some sort of grip enhancer to improve spin rates, there’s one sticky substance many of them feel is a step too far. “Get Spider Tack out of the game and I don’t ...