Don’t Worry About the Vase likes the idea of the Goldilocks baseballs in post-season games:

As someone who has previously gambled on the number of runs in various baseball games, I was not even a little bit surprised to see MLB differentially using different baseballs based on when they would benefit from having more exciting games.

I also mostly do not mind it, especially with regard to the postseason. Thanks to various dynamics of teams, incentives and scheduling, and the ability to run your pitchers in an unsustainable way because there is no tomorrow, postseason baseball games do not have enough offense in them. It is not good for the game. You want the opposite, where the games the diehards watch can be quick pitchers’ duals that true fans appreciate and then you put a more superficially exciting face forward for the public, and those who don’t care about either team still playing, at the finish line. I’d prefer that they not pretend they are not doing it, but I understand why they can’t come out and say it.

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Maybe MLB should randomly assign one of the three types of balls to every game, and not tell the teams which one they are getting. This might prevent hitters and pitchers from falling into undesirable patterns, like swinging for the fences because the ball is juiced.