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dark vengeance
This will sound crazy but they should have known this could happen and put surgical glue on the nail to give it strength. Cover it with clear nail polish and most likely no problem.
jimmertee
I wonder what he baseball/sports doctors think of your suggestion? Sounds good to me, but who knows considering the torque that he puts on that arm/hand.
edreed20
Can they though or would that be deemed a foreign substance?
jimmertee
I think that as long as it was medical and he didn’t use it to “doctor” the ball, it would be okay.
tharrie0820
no foreign substances at all are allowed on thr mound
jimmertee
Pitchers are allowed to spray on suntan spray or lotion and anti bug spray or lotion. Combined with sweat, pitchers use these by touching their skin in order to create a stickiness in order to grip the ball better. No canisters of these are allowed on the mound, but SOME applied substances are allowed and I suggest that a nail polish or hard glue keeping a nail together, since it has been applied to the body like suntan or anitbug, would be allowed. Another substance that is allowed is hair gel/treatment. Many pitchers will run their hands through their hair after this has been applied in order to pick up stickiness for a better grip. Good question to ask MLB though.
davidcoonce74
Pitchers are actually not allowed to do that. No applied substances are allowed. It’s sort of an unwritten rule – pitchers do it all the time and managers and umpires let it pass unless it’s obvious. Beecause literally everybody does it. But it’s still illegal.
Ted
Remember in the playoffs when Trevor Bauer’s stitches opened up on his finger and blood was pouring off? He hasn’t been allowed to use any kind of glue to hold the stitches in place.
I’d also wager that most pitchers want the tactile sense on their finger. If they can’t pitch with a bare fingertip that day they might be better off missing the start.
Iron Mike
didn’t Brian Wilson used to paint his nails when he pitched for the Giants?
BuxBombers
Jello. Lots and lots of jello. Look it up…
lesterdnightfly
Myth perpetrated by the people who deal in cow’s hooves.
davidcoonce74
You can’t have glue or any other substance on your hand while pitching.
dark vengeance
You can’t have a wet glue but a dried colorless glue covered by a clear nail polish would work. Just polish all the nails so it looks normal. If it was done before his nail split it would have been ok. I would bet they glued the nail after or ripped it out completely which will take around a month possibly more to grow in.