- "Black Jack" McDowell believes at least one case of this went back into the 1980's with Tony LaRussa in Chicago with the White Sox! (ESPN)
McDowell never played in Chicago (White Sox) under LaRussa when he managed there, but, the year after, when he came, he saw a system in which a camera was focused on the catcher, and a light was being toggled, apparently by the next day's starting pitcher, in center field near the batter's eye!
LaRussa is now a senior advisor for the Angels, after winning a World Series with the McGwire A's and two in St. Louis. That brings all of them into question.
And the biggest problem that could come of this -- even more than the fines and suspensions -- is what McDowell told WFNZ in Charlotte, NC:
"You know how it used to be taken care of?" McDowell said in the radio interview. "If they were stealing signs from second base, you just had the catcher call a breaking ball and then throw your fastball off someone's neck and just say, 'Oh, you're gonna keep trying to pick up signs, guys? What's it going to be?'"It's gonna be someone is going to get 100 MPH off the dome this year and never get up.
- More discussion of the 2017 #HoustonStrong World Series.
Now, Darvish is questioning whether, instead, they got his signs in Game 3 and basically used that, as much as feasible, to rock Darvish in the Series. (ESPN)
My anonymous friend -- who, until MLB exposed itself as MAGA-LB, was a Dodgers fan -- notes these numbers from Clayton Kershaw in the 2017 Series:
11 innings at home: ERA 0.81
4+ innings on the road: 11.58
There can be no doubt remaining that the Houston Astros won a World Series and two American League Championships due to sign-stealing.
Is it going to take someone taking 100 off the dome and never getting up for someone to do something REAL about it???
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