They were using video feed of the catcher’s signs in real time and then signaling the batter while he was in the box if off speed or fastball was coming. The Astro’s 2017 chase rate on breaking balls was supposedly pretty low at home.
What no one seems to mentioning is just how dumb are catchers and pitchers? It is down to stubbornness, laziness or dumbness that all catcher’s signs don’t have changing pre-decided indicators that change the signs or the sign order with today’s technology. You base it on inning number or the score or number of outs or anything else that changes.
Freegards
What no one seems to mentioning is just how dumb are catchers and pitchers?
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Just to ‘prove’ that all bad news isn’t all that bad,
Just how brilliant are/were the Nationals this year, going 4-0 in the ‘den of iniquity’?
Reading about how ‘nasty’ the Astros are/have been recently and threatening to strip them of titles, firing managers and other managers who may have KNOWN about it, just proves that the Washington National feat has to be one of the greatest in sports history.
Like ‘we’ say about steroids...
Steroids may give one more power and/or upper body strength but if you don’t have the hand-eye coordination and know how to swing, the steroids just bulk one up.
Food for thought???
Bo Porter the current pre/post game announcer for the Nationals was Houston Mgr 2013-14 and was Nationals 3rd base coach prior to that..
Washington & Houston share the same spring training facilities.
Might make one wonder if Washington hadn’t heard of or even ‘known’ of the scandal and used it to their advantage in the World Series?
ahh...
too much flipping work for a baseball game
That is what Alex Wood did for LA in game four of the '17 WS in Houston. He suspected they were cheating. By doing this he was able to pitch 5.2 no hit innings before giving up a run. LA eventually won, 6-2.