Posted on 11/12/2019 11:21:56 AM PST by big'ol_freeper
Following accusations of sign-stealing during this year's postseason, one former Houston Astros pitcher said members of the organization devised a system in 2017 to steal signals from opposing teams.
Per The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich, Mike Fiers and three other people who were with the organization in 2017 said the Astros developed a system for home games that was aided by a television camera set up in the outfield.
"That's not playing the game the right way," said Fiers. "They were advanced and willing to go above and beyond to win."
Rosenthal and Drellich reported the system began early in 2017 and involved "at least two uniformed Astros" players who got together to plan out how to do it.
(Excerpt) Read more at bleacherreport.com ...
The Patriots of MLB.
Who do they think they are? The New England Patriots?
Who do they think they are? Bill Belichick?
I happen to have just finished reading the original post on TheAthletic.com and while the report appears fairly definitive and damning, the author didn’t bother to discuss results.
The ‘when’ and ‘where’ parts of this involved home games during 2017... a year in which the Astros were 15 games above .500 at home, but 25 games over .500 when on the road... and this scheme could not be employed during road games.
Additionally, as a team, they hit .279 at home and .284 on the road in 2017. There were also a few road games in which they would have been in National League (non-DH) parks, which might have dragged the team avg. down slightly.
So if this was really happening, it kinda had a reverse impact on Houston... they played better when they didn’t use it!
Yet they lost every World Series home game and ultimately lost the World Series.
Besides, an unwritten rule in baseball is it ain’t cheating if you don’t get caught. Twas always thus, should always be.
I’ll bet the dodgers are pissed right now.
The problem with the Dodgers is that they weren’t that good, you play half the games against your division, there was only one team other than LA that had a .500 record, so yes they had a good record.
The division Washington was in had four teams out of five over .500. I think it’s easier to win against bad opponents.
So did the Nats. A very odd occurrence for a 7 game series.
So did the Nats. A very odd occurrence for a 7 game series.
Of course it can’t happen except in a 7 game series.
Signs Schmigns
You either hit it, or you don’t.
At a gazillion $s/yr, .250 isn’t too much to expect.
Well, anything can happen in a short series.
read. check dates. reflect. then post.
. . . and please try to do all of that before you drop dead from terminal rationalization.
Thus all comes down to banging on a trash can?
That’s weak.
Yep. 2017 is hard to get over.
I just always assume there’s something sketchy going on in baseball.
Stealing signs isnt new to baseball. But this takes it to a whole new level.
If a man is on second, he will look the way the catcher is setting up to telegraph to the hitter where the pitcher is going to trow.
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