A “smoking gun” in the Astros sign-stealing scandal might have been found, per a late Saturday night report by Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich in The Athletic.
Rosenthal and Drellich report:
An Astros front-office executive wrote about the team’s desire to steal signs in an August 2017 email that was obtained by The Athletic. As the club discussed its advance scouting plans ahead of the playoffs, the executive asked the team’s scouts to pursue sign stealing from the stands, and suggested cameras could be used to do so.
“One thing in specific we are looking for is picking up signs coming out of the dugout,” the email’s sender wrote in a message from August of 2017.