And the bottom line is MLB has warned teams explicitly for years about doing this very thing.
“And the bottom line is MLB has warned teams explicitly for years about doing this very thing.”
From the beginning of baseball, a man on 2nd base has endeavored to convey the called pitch to the batter. They’ve developed innumerable schemes and signs for it. It’s expected, and it’s unreliable.
But putting a hidden camera, giving a TV view of signs in real time is a whole nuther level of dirty. They can see every sign in every situation and begin building a database to decode the entire signing scheme and it’s rotations.
And they can play it back over and over to be sure, comparing the signs to the resultant pitch, or the Manager’s signs to the steal/non-steal etc.
By the time you’re 1/2 through the season, you know with relative certainty what the other team intends to do in the moment and it’s easy to convey that info to players on the field with your own signs, or miniature electronic devices.
The advantage in a game that truly is decided in millimeters and milliseconds is incalculable. But very big.
Filthy, Rotten. Far worse than the gamblers and the dopers.
Especially in the commissioner’s memo after the Apple Watch scandal.