Major League Baseball is going through a reckoning, from cracking down on pitchers using “sticky stuff” to fans still smarting from the Houston Astros cheating scandal.
Well, it turns out this might just be the tip of the iceberg. According to MLB analyst and podcast host Ryan M. Spaeder, courtesy of an epic Twitter thread, the Astros’ cheating was not at all exclusive to them.
The Royals were the first team with a full analytics and video department close by their dugout, doing so in 2015, their World Series Championship year. How they used it, I do not know.