In the wake of the alleged Jose Valverde spitball thing, the first question many people asked me was whether MLB can or would do anything about it. ?My guess, based on recent history, is that they probably can do something but probably won?t either, for a couple of reasons.
The history: in game 3 of the 2009 ALCS, there was video that kinda maybe sorta showed Mariano Rivera spitting on the ball. After that began to circulate, MLB reviewed it and issued a statement calling the video ?inconclusive? and letting the matter rest. ?While MLB discipline is nothing if not inconsistent, that implies that, had the video been more conclusive, they could have and would have done something about it.
I can?t find the video of the Rivera incident, but I do remember it and my memory of it was that it was far more ambiguous than Valverde?s thing, so perhaps baseball will review this one too and do something about it. ?It?s possible, however, that even if they do think it?s conclusive that they do nothing to Valverde for fear of wading into ? shock! ? more replay and second-guessing of umpires and all of that. ?As it stands, I can?t remember an incident that did not get noted on the field in some way during the game that later led to discipline based on video alone.
In any event, that?s the context. Baseball should probably look into it based on their looking into the Rivera thing from 2009. ?But it?s doubtful that anything ? except maybe a memo to the umpires to watch Valverde more closely going forward ? will happen as a result.
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