Umpires Checking For Substances Is Slowing Down Baseball Trevor Bauer warned us this would happen. Umpires are stopping pitchers in their tracks after every inning to check for foreign substances. It is absolutely ridiculous and is digging a deeper hole for the widely-despised MLB commissioner Rob Manfred. Rule 3.01 has been around for a while … Continue reading Umpires Checking For Substances Is Slowing Down Baseball