There’s something up with the baseballs.

They’ve been juiced at times — much to the dismay of Gary Cohen and Joe Davis — and other times, balls that should be landing 450 feet deep into the bleachers are dying at the warning track. It doesn’t add up. And Andrew McCutchen wants answers.

The 38-year-old McCutchen, who is no stranger to beefing with sports media personalities, seemed to ruffle the feathers of David Samson. Admittedly, it’s not hard to get the former Miami Marlins president riled up — just ask Jeff Passan. But in this instance, McCutchen’s crime was merely passing along something he’d heard about the balls.

That apparently struck a nerve, and McCutchen responded by telling the Meadowlark Media personality to stay in his lane and stick to podcasting.

This all started two Fridays ago when Juan Soto hit what looked like a game-tying home run until it died at the warning track. The ball traveled just 357 feet despite being scorched at 110.8 mph with a 22° launch angle.

Juan Soto’s 357 foot 8th inning flyout was hit 110.8 MPH with a 22° launch angle.

In 2025, batted balls with an exit velocity of 110-111 MPH and a 20-25 degree launch angle average 393 feet and are a HR 62.9% of the time.

Statcast era averages: 411 feet, 85.9% HR rate

— Justin Nicosia (@justinnicosia20) June 14, 2025

McCutchen saw it and chimed in with what he says Major League Baseball told him.

I was told by a rep for MLB that the balls are indeed different this year. They stated “higher seams” which produces more drag on baseball, causing baseballs to not travel as far as they should. When asked why, I was told “every baseball is hand sewn so no ball is the same.” When… https://t.co/StaUR45PFv

— Andrew McCutchen (@TheCUTCH22) June 14, 2025

He added that when he asked if anything could be done to fix it, he was told there was “nothing” that could be done this season, but MLB is “working hard on getting to the bottom of why the seams are higher.”

“I would like to find this ‘Deep Throat’ within baseball because I would like to be the one to tell Andrew McCutchen that your source stinks!” Samson replied on his Nothing Personal show. “And I’m not one — really, I hear from people in baseball quite a bit. They don’t exactly view me as their go-to friend of the court. But I can assure you in this case, whoever Andrew McCutchen is speaking to, that person doesn’t know squat about squat.”

McCutchen fired back, calling Samson’s claim laughable and making it clear his “source” is none other than the MLB Commissioner himself, backed by dozens of witnesses. He told Samson to stick to his “lil channel” and finished with a GIF of The Rock saying, “know your role and shut your mouth.”

My source stinks David? What a laughable thing to say when my “source” is The Commissioner of MLB and I have 27 witnesses to back that up. So stick to ur lil channel and do this… pic.twitter.com/0IjGu6lHse

— Andrew McCutchen (@TheCUTCH22) June 22, 2025

The truth almost certainly lies somewhere in-between. Samson doesn’t exactly have a spotless track record on these sorts of things, while McCutchen is a 17-year MLB vet. He’s not about to fabricate conversations with Rob Manfred and risk his credibility. If McCutchen says he spoke to the commissioner, you have to take him at his word.

And even if you don’t, everyone and their mother can see there’s something going on with the baseballs.