Cole, who became a central figure in the sticky-substance controversy last season, said he doesn’t expect the renewed focus to have a significant impact on him.
“Not much,’’ Cole said after he allowed a pair of homers, struck out five and threw 50 pitches in two-plus innings in a 7-4 win over the Pirates on Sunday at Steinbrenner Field. Gerrit Cole doesn’t expect MLB’s new foreign substance policy to affect him.There will also be two kinds of rosin used by pitchers throughout the league: one that is powdery to eliminate sweat and one that is tacky to improve grip if it’s cold.
And for the umpires, it will make it easier to determine whether there is something illegal on a pitcher’s hand. At least part of the reason for the increased attention on foreign substances after the crackdown had an immediate impact on pitchers in June and July of last season, is that spin rates across the league began to rise again in the latter part of 2021 — although not to the heights of earlier in the season.
He then missed two weeks due to a bout with COVID and from his return from the IL to the end of the regular season, it bumped up to 2,422. During that nine-start span, Cole pitched to a 3.53 ERA in 51 innings. “I thought my stuff was pretty good,’’ the right-hander said. “[For] the first game, pretty good.” He noted that he just missed with some pitches early in counts, which caused him to pitch from behind at times.
“I’ve got good enough stuff to compete,’’ Cole said. “I’ve just got to get it in the zone and control more of those counts.” “He didn’t have his strike-throwing or command exactly like he’s going to,’’ Boone said. “His delivery was smooth and he had life on his fastball.”
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