Anthony Rizzo said during a Podcast appearance this week that he could tell the difference in the baseballs used by Major League Baseball last season.
\"I would take the balls this year and feel on them and be like, \'Man, this seems harder,\'\" Rizzo said on Compound Podcast, hosted by his former Chicago Cubs teammate Ian Happ.
\"And then you take some of them and you\'re like, \'Feel how soft this is compared to what they were.\' It\'s crazy.\"
Happ agreed with Rizzo. He added: \"They started flying in the middle of the year and you\'re like, what\'s going on?\"
Rizzo and Happ\'s comments come in the wake of Bradford William Davis\' Business Insider report concerning Major League Baseball\'s usage of two different baseballs during the 2021 season.