Quote Originally Posted by yanks12025 View Post
Joel,
The mlb hologram says "Game Used" not "Game Issued". Mlb has a policy saying they have to see it be taken out of play to put "Game Used" and if not, it's labeled as "Game Issued". So if they didn't see it taken out of play on the 31st, then they would have labeled it differently.
I 2nd this statement.

In fact there is a thread here somewhere about this exact issue concerning jerseys and if memory serves, its states that per MLB Authentication policy, the authenticator must see the player take of the item as they leave the field to be tagged as Game Used otherwise it gets a Game Issued designation regardless of how much use it shows.

This was brought up because someone was asking about having MLB change a description that stated Game Issued and the response from MLB was that if they didn't see it removed, it could not be tagged as Game USED and many people applauded MLB's strict adherence to their policies to eliminate any questions of impropriety.