The integrity of Major League Baseball has been compromised in recent seasons due to two electronic sign-stealing scandals — the Houston Astros in 2017 and the Boston Red Sox in 2018 — with both teams going on to defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series those years.
The Astros’ cheating was more egregious as they planted a camera in center field to pick catchers’ signs and then relayed them to hitters at the plate in real time by banging on a trash can.
The Red Sox used their replay operator to decode signs with a runner on second base, which could then be relayed to the hitter.