I'm not sure this sign stealing thing helped players, in fact it looks like it may have hurt. Altuve and Bregman have some pretty strong home road splits over the last few years, and they perform much better on the road.
I'm not sure this sign stealing thing helped players, in fact it looks like it may have hurt. Altuve and Bregman have some pretty strong home road splits over the last few years, and they perform much better on the road.
"Today was the byproduct of us thinking we can come back from anything." - Joey Votto after blowing a 10-1 lead and holding on for the 12-11 win on 8/25/2010.
Revering4Blue (01-17-2020),Wonderful Monds (01-16-2020)
mth123 (01-16-2020),Revering4Blue (01-17-2020)
"Today was the byproduct of us thinking we can come back from anything." - Joey Votto after blowing a 10-1 lead and holding on for the 12-11 win on 8/25/2010.
Wonderful Monds (01-16-2020)
Well the guy who basically orchestrated the whole thing did win the the 2018 world series. People who say this is not an advantage is fullish. Anyone who has played any level of baseball, knows it is easier to hit if you know the pitch that is coming. In this instance I don't care what the numbers say. They didn't go to all this trouble because it didn't work.
Stealing signs is part of the game because it gives your team an advantage, but this was blatant cheating that everyone involved knew was cheating. Baseball is letting them off easy.
Old school 1983 (02-08-2020)
The thing I see players talking about on Twitter is unfairness to the pitchers. Many pitchers are a bad week or game away from being released or demoted. That can mean tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands that season, and perhaps millions of dollars lost in following seasons because the opposing team wasn't playing fairly.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
I am not. He hit better on the road than at home last year.
Last edited by Sparky; 01-16-2020 at 06:01 PM.
If you people didn't have something to worry about I'd be worried (LOL)
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goreds2 (02-08-2020)
NO
Last edited by goreds2; 02-08-2020 at 11:05 AM.
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BEETTLEBUG (02-16-2020)
but did it really cost any pitchers if the splits are as claimed in the thread? I am not suggesting it should be allowed or the parties should not be punished....but I find it mostly uninteresting because I assume many teams have some internal things going on that would not be viewed within the spirit of the game.
According to a new report the cheating was happening at home as well as on the road using the “code breaker” program.
https://www.sportingnews.com/au/mlb/...s18x1gbyd3szym
If this is allowed to progress that is where you can really make some owners think twice about turning a blind eye.
Originally Posted by teamselig
In the immortal words of my own daughter 20 years ago over some really unimportant thing, and I quote, "omg!"
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