{"id":203307,"date":"2025-09-05T21:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203307\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T21:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:28:17","slug":"mlb-rules-astros-taylor-trammells-confiscated-bat-was-illegal-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203307\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB rules Astros\u2019 Taylor Trammell\u2019s confiscated bat was illegal: Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Major League Baseball has ruled that Houston Astros outfielder Taylor Trammell\u2019s bat, which was confiscated in the ninth inning<\/a> of Thursday night\u2019s game against the New York Yankees, was technically illegal.<\/p>\n

But the league office determined that Trammell\u2019s bat did not give him a competitive advantage, and the umpires treated the situation like \u201can impermissible glove color or design and told the player that he was no longer permitted to use the bat,\u201d according to a major-league source.<\/p>\n

MLB\u2019s bat supplier regulations, shared with The Athletic, state that a two-color bat must be divided into two sections, each of one solid color. The dividing point between each of the color sections must start 18 inches from the knob end of the bat, or next to the 1-inch solid color ring, if applicable. Multi-colored bats are only permitted if the color transition occurs at the 18-inch mark from the knob.<\/p>\n

Trammell had discoloration on the barrel of his bat, which prompted Yankees manager Aaron Boone to ask the umpires to examine it after the Astros outfielder hit a double.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankly, that was something hard for me to do, because I don\u2019t think Taylor was up to anything \u2014\u00a0I really don\u2019t,\u201d Boone said Friday. \u201cBut it was brought to my attention and something that looked not right and, I think, not within the rules. So in the moment, I felt a duty to at least check in for my team. I\u2019m frankly satisfied with the ruling, the explanation, what have you. I don\u2019t think Taylor was up to no good at all. I do feel like in the moment that I had a duty to at least check.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trammell told reporters after the game that he had used that bat for \u201ca long time,\u201d and that he takes batting practice with it and had it with him when he was with Triple-A Sugar Land. He said because he doesn\u2019t have a gloss finish on his bat, the paint wears down over time.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy biggest problem is, I feel kind of defensive right now, more so (it is) testing my character of, like, I\u2019m going to willingly do that,\u201d Trammell said Thursday. \u201cI\u2019m kind of lost on that thing. I think if anybody knows me, knows that I\u2019m never going to cheat any turns or anything like that. I have no idea. That\u2019s baffling to me that it was even checked. They didn\u2019t like it. Sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trammell played five games for the Yankees last year before being released. He has a 90 wRC+<\/a> for the Astros in 44 games this season.<\/p>\n

(Photo of umpires Adrian Johnson and Ramon De Jesus examining Taylor Trammell\u2019s bat: Alex Slitz \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Major League Baseball has ruled that Houston Astros outfielder Taylor Trammell\u2019s bat, which was confiscated…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2382,1266,2228,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-203307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-houston-astros","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-yankees","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115153817092017260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}