McCovey Chronicles · Jan 14, 2020
Tuesday BP: Here comes the Astros fallout
Troy Taormina-USA TODAY SportsWhat a wild, wild offseason.
Back in November, The Athletic released an in-depth report about how the Houston Astros - winners of the 2017 World Series - were taking a truly modern approach to sign stealing. Houston was using a live feed of the center field camera to determine the pitches that were about to be thrown. A trash can was then banged on in the clubhouse, loud enough to echo onto the field, to alert batters as to what pitches they might be facing.
It was a wild story in which a team took an ago-old baseball tradition (cheating), and multiplied it to a level previously unheard of.