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During spring training before the 2023 MLB season, MLB allowed pitchers to wear PitchCom wristbands so they could call their own pitches. [4] As spring training ended, MLB allowed pitchers to request pitches on PitchCom during the 2023 regular season. [5] PitchCom also began to be used in the KBO League from July 2024. [6]
The first major-league player to wear spectacles was Will 'Whoop-La' White in 1878–86. [4] [5] Only pitchers dared wear glasses while playing until the early 1920s, when George 'Specs' Toporcer of the St. Louis Cardinals became the first outfielder to sport eyewear. Bespectacled pitchers are less rare as they have less need to field the ball.
Why MLB spring training matters more to catchers and pitchers: 'It’s the most important [relationship] on the field'
In 2013, per the new MLB-MLBPA Collective Bargaining Agreement, MLB players were required to wear the new Rawlings S100 Pro Comp. [25] In 2018, several Major League Baseball players including Mike Trout and Bryce Harper began wearing the C-flap, an attachment to the earflap covering the jaw, invented by Markwort. The C-flap has caught on ...
Dominance in defeat. That’s how Corbin Burnes, the consensus top free-agent pitcher this winter, ended his 2024 season. In Game 1 of the wild-card series against the visiting Kansas City Royals ...
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As the youngest of the ace trio, Burnes remains in strong position to land the rare seven-year free-agent deal for a starting pitcher, possibly even in the range of the $245 million deal that ...
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