[TwoBit]

I wouldn't be surprised if the MLB secretly notified the teams that they have x days to stop it because enforcement will commence thereafter. That way the MLB still looks clean but they get rid of the problem. MLB is very concerned about their image.

[monocasa]

Yeah, that's sort of what he was hinting. They probably won't announce anything, but it'll be clear in retrospect from the stats. They're already having to account for it in their data models during training.

[NaOH]

MLB has been very clear about their intentions, if not yet the specifics: From four days ago:

>It’s been less than a week since Major League Baseball made known that it will begin to crack down on the use of foreign substances by pitchers...

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/06/mlb-gerrit-cole-trevo...

Some of the expected specifics to be enacted:

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/06/latest-on-mlbs-crackd...