re: DAT Off-season Thread: YWCHA Edition

quote:

---

How about you tell us more about what "everyone else" did.

---

The media narrative now is, “The other teams were using the baserunner method (the dugout gets the video feed and signals it to the second baseman, who signals it to the batter), whereas the Astros were signaling in live video feed at any given time during the game.”

The argument here is that teams only had a baserunner on 19.7 percent of the time, whereas the Astros could employ their method 100 percent of the time, so what the Astros were doing was five times worse than the other teams who used electronic sign stealing.

There was a particular entry in Evan Drellich’s book that went into detail about Correa leaning forward on second to signal to Yuli that a fastball was coming, and Yuli hit a grand slam because of it. Drellich praised this, even though it’s still illegal, and bashed the trash can and massage gun against a door method.

Evan went on to say in an interview with 97.5 in Houston that the other teams were doing an 85 in a 75, whereas the Astros were doing a 130 in a 75.

So it’s basically up to you, “Are there different degrees in cheating?” or “Is cheating, no matter how egregious one method is compared to another, the same across the board?”