I get the logic of it, though. For pitchers, spin rate is en vogue, and using grip enhancing substances to increase the spin rate is a legitimate and effective tool (as our good buddy Bauer pointed out then demonstrated). If the foreign substance issue was truly just a matter of gripping the ball better, I wouldn't really pay any attention to it, but we've seen this phenomenon with spin rates increasing year over year by huge amounts recently.
If it's getting to the point where the advantage pitchers are gaining is so great that the hitters just can't keep up, I would say it's worth looking into. And I think we're about at that point. The solution IMO is to provide some better version of rosin for the pitchers to use, or doing something to the baseballs to make them less slick beforehand (beyond just rubbing with the mud). I want pitchers to control the ball, of course, but I think it's getting silly where almost every pitcher not only throws in the mid-to-high nineties with movement, but also has at least one breaking ball that's disgusting. The hitters stand no chance. And then it's also becoming a bit like the PED situation where pitchers feel compelled to use some type of substance even if they don't otherwise need it, because if they're not adding a few hundred RPMs to their pitches then they're falling behind.
I don't think it's quite as big of a deal as it's being made out to be, but I do think that MLB should try to rein it in a bit and maybe establish some uniformity so pitchers can comfortably grip the ball but also aren't dramatically improving their results at the same time.
