Major League Baseball is Rigged?

I really don’t care if the balls are juiced or not. Baseball has been my favorite sport since I learned the game when I was around 8 years old. I will always love baseball ⚾️. I don’t love everything (such as the ghost runner at 2nd base in extra innings) but that’s not going to stop my love of the game.

We just need to bring steroids back for baseball.

Finally been saying this forever 🙌 👏 Great work 🎉 I am so sick of the comparison of Ohtani is new Babe Ruth? Go look at the stats and Ohtani has barely been around. And MLB and Yankees calling Stanton Lou Gehrig 😂 🤢🤮 So tired of the corruption and the blatant disrespect of our Legends and modern real Legends! Even Mookie Betts was sick of hearing about how great Ohtani is! Mookie is a all around better player than Ohtani...... Average doesn't matter defense doesn't matter evidently being a real ball player doesn't matter just HR???? Just to push Ohtani Judge Jerseys and make billions BS! So many great players being treated like garbage.

INSTEAD OF CHANGING THE BASEBALLS, MAYBE THEY COULD'VE JUST MOVED THE PITCHERS MOUND A LITTLE BACK SO THAT BATTERS HAVE MORE TIME TO REACT TO PITCHES AND PICTHES HAVE MORE TIME TO BREAK

"At a reported 42 years old.." 😂😂😂

is major league baseball rigged? dodgers pay a 1/2 a billion dollar contract for one player that is differed a decade into the future....the mets pay 765 million for one player for 15 years adding to their nearly double than average team annual spending....nope not rigged at all nothing to see here move along.

Well, baseball is a game of numbers: if the balls were juiced (and there's every reason to believe they were), no single team or player gained a competitive advantage over another, since all hitters and pitchers would have been in the same boat. Both teams in a given team would have had multiple home runs and strikeouts. Cy Young and MVP awards are relative: they're determined on the basis of your own numbers against those of your peers -- not of legendary players from the past. It's a well-known fact that in the 1960's, the strike zone was larger and the pitching mound was higher: hence, low ERAs.

I will never understand the point of view that HRs are more exciting than diving plays and close tag outs at the base/plate. The increase in "true outcomes" is really turning me off to the mlb and I would almost rather watch little league

I watched for about 5 minutes and then remembered USA is a fake ass bunch of people. Nothing new.

Manfred is a clown ruining baseball. This probably goes much deeper than any of us realize.

As far as I'm concerned, and I'm a life-long huge baseball fan, the only thing wrong with baseball still and has been is Rob Manfred.

Ask chatgpt what happened when the NFL was sued for being rigged.

This past postseason especially in the NLCS there was an EXPLOSION of offense . There were 6 grand slams hit. I can't even remember what the lowest scoring game was the World Series.

Two thumbs way up. Now all MLB needs to do is use superballs for the cores, because we all want to see 600 foot homers! 😏 Liked & subscribed.

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There have been scandals and cheating in Major League Baseball from the beginning. This is not a secret.

Call me a fool for being a Mets fan who wants to retain Pete Alonso, a current free agent

Well, call me a fool for wanting to retain Alonso, not for the first part

Anyway, I have to now voice my possibly quantifiable doubt that Alonso's sluggy-ness has been declining due to his skills decreasing

So, Judge sets the rookie HR record, subsequently eclipsed 2 years later by Alonso

3 years later, Judge legitimately, allegedly - that is, in a non-steroid fashion - breaks Maris' HR record.

Meanwhile, Alonso's power numbers continue to slide down

Now we find out Judge was being fed special pro-HR balls, while Alonso gets the balls which are now found to be less juiced than 2019, when he set the rookie record with 53 HRs

What a MESS!

And I say this to not in any way cast aspersions at Judge, a fantastic player and high-quality human being

Let I ask all of yous:

Would Judge have agreed to attempt to break the record with balls juiced especially for him and nobody else?

I'll answer:

HELL NO!

I'm really angered, although the word I want to use is the colloquial term for urinated

Actually, this post - ideally - would be filled with actual cuss words, but then yootoob's autocratic CensorBots would pounce on me and punish me for being a bad boy

Anyway, heading into September of 2024, there was still a non-zero chance for the CLEAR AND OBVIOUS NL MVP to actually win the award, namely Francisco Lindor

And this post is not intended to argue this point, given that I'm right, and you're the opposite of right, and I thereby dismiss you with my middle fanger

But then Lindor injured his back, missed around 10 games

Meanwhile Ohtarnicle put up some stupid September numbers - didn't he hit 3 homers and drive in 10 runs IN ONE GAME?!?!?!

Well, even though I had to concede that Lindor did not deserve to be the first NLMVP to win in a Mets uniform, I was still very disappointed

Might have to do with the fact that I don't think that Ohtarnicle is the greatest thing since sliced hokkaido

Now we find out that there was possibly/probably/likely/definitely/absolutely a reason that Ohtarnicle put up those stupid September numbers

I wonder if anybody else realizes how these MLB slobs/executives have screwed up the game

I am filled with doubt that baseball game results are legitimate

HOWEVER

In this here comment section, nobody else seems to share my concerns

They say, and I might add not as eloquently as I now will

"Well, everybody has to deal with the same randomly juiced randomly used balls, so I'm OK with it because

I LOVE MLB AND MLB LOVES ME!!!"

When people think about the term “rigging” they think some Soprano BS with shady characters telling players to take dives and that’s RARELY how rigging and corruption ACTUALLY happens. They usually tell you they are doing it. What actually happens in the example of MLB are rule changes and equipment changes. That IS rigging! All the new rules about pitching changes and pitch clocks and the stuff they do to the ball and getting rid of the shift. That IS rigging and it’s deemed “legit.”

Makes you wonder about the huge contracts that MLB has with Draft Kings and other sports books.

I feel like the humidors don't get enough discussion. Storing the balls with a humidor is supposed to "normalize" the balls, but it's easy to see how they might be contributing to more inconsistencies from park to park.

the explanation for Pujols doesn't make sense. If he hit more HRs with the juiced commemorative balls in 2022, why didn't he hit more HRs with the juiced balls around 2016-2021? The video even says he struggled then with an average of 20 HRs.

How can you say Ortiz had an “inexplicable” surge in power in 2016 when in 2013 he had 30, 2014 he had 35 2015 he had 37 how is 38 an inexplicable power surge?

The theory I heard was the pill was more preciously centered now and thus created less wobble, which would decrease drag.

It's never a good sign when a company doesn't let a 3rd party test their product. If everything is legit, that 3rd party can only strengthen your case of legitness. As long as the 3rd party is legit itself and not biased against the company. All the more reason to encourage many 3rd parties to test your product and put all the conspiracies to rest.

Honestly, let em use juiced balls…but let pitchers use tack to even the playing field back out…as a lifelong baseball fan, who cares?? I just want to see good baseball, but when you handicap one side to stack the field for the other…it loses its appeal

We want to see the best athletes in the game play to the limits of the games abilities…that’s why fans didn’t care about the steroid use (we all knew it, didn’t matter) until mlb said no, and we were like “yeah, that’s cheating” (I get that one, keep it out of the game) but if it’s standardized across the board, it doesn’t matter 🤷‍♂️ you’re measured to the same metrics across the field still

There shouldn’t be any doubt that they’re messing with the balls to make the game more exciting and pad stats. It’s common sense. I don’t care about this much, or steroids. It’s the history of elite competition

Great stuff bro 👌

so what im hearing is that... we need to let the roids be legal, let the sticky stuff come back, and juic the balls and bats... imagine the 10,000 HR insanity...

It seemed suspicious to me at the time when Boone brought out Nestor, someone one who hadn't pitched in a month. No Surprise, he threw two meatballs, and Shohei didnt get hod of his properly/verdugo made that catch and all that; but I cant help wondering if it was setup for the "hero" hit from Ohtani. He didnt and Freddie stepped up; but Ohtani was way bigger before the WS (more non baseball fans know Freddie now ). Things that make you go hmmm.

Deferred contracts for insane amounts, gambling, money laundering from the Caribbean. Why wouldn’t it be rigged?

Lmaooo the Kermit Cole stray is wild😂😂

“Reported 42 years old”😂

I love how most people have this subconscious bias that people with certain areas of academic study and profession are somehow unlike everyone else, that is, potentially corrupt/corruptible and when hired to be on 'panels' to 'study' xyz and reach conclusions that the people that hired them are massively financially incentivized for them to reach aren't frequently influenced by that. It's like a huge-dollar 'forensic scientist' used as a hired gun in a trial: who's side do you think their scientific inquiry is going to benefit? If MLB, a big pharma, food, you name it huge-dollar business/industry hire an 'expert' or 'experts' to look into something they WILL know beforehand and find what conclusion their employer wants, using 'science-y' sounding quasi science designed to obfuscate and mislead. If not, they won't be in the VERY lucrative field of 'expert in xyz for hire' much longer. C'mon people. How do they not knows this?

BTW the misuse of 'conspiracy' when really meaning 'hypothesis' or if more advanced, 'theory' or even frankly 'observation plus deduction/induction plus adult common sense' is an obvious rhetorical tactic, and I'm not clear why it's used so much here. Habit? And hopefully enough people know about the history of the creation of 'conspiracy theory', a term unused and unheard of prior to its invention out of whole cloth in the late 60's (in the face of fierce public questioning of 'official' conclusions re: the series of high-profile 60's assassinations, JKF, MLK, RFK, Malcolm X) as a delegitimization/marginalization tactic used when versions of reality are presented that are inconvenient, or worse, to the powerful. Prior to its effective introduction, citizens were EXPECTED to be skeptical of official narratives and open to better,, more logically and factually sound possible ones, which when presented with expected their serious and deep investigation of. That is, what's now dismissed, waved away, as 'conspiracy theory'. Credit where due...it sure worked.

Steroids era joker, players are faster you need to have the talent , so what why was just a few players why was not every players? that theory is ridiculous

I will attest that storage methods of any leather have drastic effects on their condition. But you can see it in the stress across the laces and stitch holes. They spent millions to perpetuate a lie when they could just be up front about it and give the players a chance to adapt instead of calling them crazy and publishing false "scientific studies".

Wow, great video. First time I've found your channel and you definitely earned my subscription. Hope this video blows up, it deserves a LOT more views. Very nice work putting all that together.

Oh wow. This got a lot juicier than I first expected. Nice work. Hopefully this picks up some traction. Amazingly researched!

Follow the balls during the game….. game can be rigged, by when and which team gets to hit juiced balls.. umpires are in on it

Whenever sports talk radio is more about betting than actual sports........................you know all games in all sports are rigged.

The debate was over when they bought Rawlings.

Cry about it it is rigged so be it

You know I get (though don't like) the periods of Dead v. Live Balls in swaths of seasons. But I am a strongly against one thing: different baseballs within the same season, or even specific games or even hitters. I'm a strong proponent of a level playing field: everyone plays under the exact same criteria or standards. That's what sports should be. Think NASCAR's supposed same cars standards (a different issue worth debating). It's one thing to use different baseballs to level the playing field (if that's possible). But to use different baseballs in given situations to alter outcomes of games is the very definition of deception and hypocrisy.

Being a lifelong Yankees fan, I love Aaron Judge. And I know he's a special player. But now I can't help but think that by MLB appearing to help him (and certain others) to put balls in the seats so the league can get eyeballs on the games is, though no fault of his own, not in essence tarnishing HIS legacy.

There are plenty of fans who will never acknowledge Barry Bonds as MLB's all-time home run leader (personally I regard him as the leader, steroids or not). While Judge or Ohtani have no direct role in this level of deception, knowing what we know now about the current baseballs, how can we look upon what these two stars are producing with a clear conscious?

Rigged... No, too many moving parts. Heavily influenced? "Absolutely". Altruism doesn't exist alongside that much money and power. Lol

(Thanx for citing your sources, data should matter for both sides of the argument. Lol)

you are missing a big thing ohtani balls were exchanged only in that game after the 49th hr they started using it so it was probably used for 1 at bat where he hit 50th then it went back to normal accq to what he is saying it took a little bit of time to exchange baseball and he probably dind't want to waste other teams time

Why didn’t you factor in pitching velocity also rising which basic physics would indicate further hit balls ie more homers..

Albert just always was good in St. Louis. If he never left I’m now of the mindset he never gets hurt and would have 800+ HRs.

this was really good

What are your thoughts? Do you think MLB could be rigged?