When Mets closer Edwin Diaz was ejected on Sunday night before throwing a pitch, he became the third Mets pitcher in the last year and change to fall victim to MLB's arbitrary sticky stuff rules. The ...

Pitchers’ use of sticky stuff — even the performance-enhancing superglue — and the forthcoming crackdown isn’t really a cheating scandal, it’s a belated reckoning that has more to do with aesthetics ...

MLB Rumors: The New York Mets are more willing to trade Justin Verlander as the deadline approaches. However, a report on ‘sticky stuff’ from The Athletic could bring everything to a halt. Justin ...

Diaz automatically gets a 10-game suspension for failing the sticky stuff check but afterwards was adamant his usual routine didn't change. Of course, there is always the possibility the sticky stuff ...

CHICAGO — The Mets are becoming all too familiar with sticky stuff ejections. Edwin Diaz became the third Mets pitcher in a year to be ejected for sticky stuff when he was tossed after a routine check ...

New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz served a 10-game suspension earlier this season after he was ejected for "sticky stuff," a rule prohibiting players from using any foreign substance to "discolor or ...

PITTSBURGH — Baseball poses a lot of questions that don’t have clear answers. The one the Mets have been grappling with over the last year and a half is, how sticky is too sticky? The Mets have to ...

Add another Mets pitcher to the list of those ejected for sticky substances. During Triple-A Syracuse’s game against the Yankees’ Scranton/Wilkes-Barre affiliate on Wednesday night, Jeff Brigham was ...

As MLB’s crackdown on foreign substances begins Monday, all eyes will be trained on pitchers and umpires trying to navigate a midseason sea change, and on the effects the sudden end of a longstanding ...