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Earlier this week, Major League Baseball cracked down on pitcher-friendly foreign substances like mixing sunscreen with rosin. Now Rays ace Tyler Glasnow is blaming his partially torn UCL on the new regulations.
This is getting ugly, fast.
I don’t care how much I want the Yankees to win. Tyler Glasnow going down with an elbow injury is sad. pic.twitter.com/C1wIHSgcv0
— Joe (YankeesRBW) (@Yankeelibrarian) June 15, 2021
“I just threw 80 something innings and you just told me I can’t use anything. I have to change everything. I truly believe 100 percent that’s why I got hurt,” Glasnow said. “I’m frustrated MLB doesn’t understand. You can’t just tell us to use nothing. It’s crazy.”
“I don’t want this to happen to anyone else. My lifelong dream is to win a Cy Young and be an all-star and now it’s just s*** on. Now it’s over. Now I have to try to rehab to come back in the playoffs. I’m clearly frustrated. You can’t just tell us to use nothing. It’s crazy.”
Glasnow just gave a very honest rant:
— Tricia Whitaker (@TriciaWhitaker) June 15, 2021
“I just threw 80 something innings & you just told me I can’t use anything. I have to change everything.
I truly believe 100% that’s why I got hurt. I’m frustrated MLB doesn’t understand. You can’t just tell us to use nothing. It’s crazy.”
“I don’t want this to happen to anyone else.
— Tricia Whitaker (@TriciaWhitaker) June 15, 2021
My life long dream is I wanna win a CY young & be an all star & now it’s just sh** on. Now it’s over. Now I have to try to rehab to come back in the playoffs. I’m clearly frustrated. You can’t just tell us to use nothing. It’s crazy.” https://t.co/VFqZ3OWlvr
He absolutely should be livid
Glasnow’s entire point is that pitching with and without grip enhancing substances is noticably different. So much so that he’s making statements on the stress he felt post substance-less pitching. And not only was it different, but he got hurt immediately, and that should alarm the rest of baseball.
It probably already has. It just needs to be made clear to those of us that spectate these world class athletes.
Outkick’s David J. Chao weighed in on Twitter about a daunting possibility for the Rays flamethrower down the road(look away Rays fans).
I hope to be wrong but these “partial” elbow ligament injuries don’t typically end well. Might get thru for a bit but long term surgery is likely. https://t.co/sAJj38RgiI
— David J. Chao – ProFootballDoc (@ProFootballDoc) June 15, 2021
Pro Football Doc is merely echoing the doom and gloom Glasnow quotes earlier. “It’s all over” could have been his way of saying his elbow is in danger of operation, and that’s worst case scenario for Tampa. And if Glasnow wants a Cy Young or all-star appearance, Tommy John surgery is a year-long sentence to the sidelines.
Obviously we hope everything works out in Tyler Glasnow’s favor, but one thing’s for certain: The players are not happy about the recent rule changes. Let another pitcher go down with an arm injury or a pitch to slip and take out a defenseless hitter — we might have an all out war.
