CalvinBall wrote:would the batter hear the trashcan?

CalvinBall wrote:would the batter hear the trashcan?

Pitching for the White Sox in 2017, Danny Farquhar made two mid-September appearances at Minute Maid Park, just before the playoffs. One Astros source recalled that Farquhar appeared to visibly notice what the Astros were up to.

Farquhar, the source remembered, pointed to his ear on the mound.

“There was a banging from the dugout, almost like a bat hitting the bat rack every time a changeup signal got put down,” said Farquhar, who is now the pitching coach with the White Sox’s High-A affiliate in Winston-Salem, N.C. “After the third one, I stepped off. I was throwing some really good changeups and they were getting fouled off. After the third bang, I stepped off.”

Farquhar said he and his catcher changed the signs to the more complex kind used when a runner is on second base — a situation where base runners have long been able to legally relay signs, using their own eyes.

“The banging stopped,” Farquhar said. “My assumption was they were picking it up from the video and relaying the signs to the dugout. … That was my theory on the whole thing. It made me very upset. I was so angry, so mad, that the media didn’t come to me after.”

The impact of the Astros’ sign-stealing is difficult to assess. Not every player used it in Houston.

“There were guys who didn’t like it,” Fiers said. “There are guys who don’t like to know (what’s coming) and guys who do.”

Players who did use it would not necessarily use it all the time, either.

Squire wrote:I mean the lead time on the signal was pretty close to the actual pitch, I could see not wanting the extra thing to think about it up there too.

That being said, this is such a trash move by the Astros and arguably way worse than anything the Patriots did in videotaping practices.

Werthless wrote:

Squire wrote:I mean the lead time on the signal was pretty close to the actual pitch, I could see not wanting the extra thing to think about it up there too.

That being said, this is such a trash move by the Astros and arguably way worse than anything the Patriots did in videotaping practices.

They should lose draft picks and get fined. Not sure what the precedence of this is, but the org should face penalties.

Squire wrote:I mean the lead time on the signal was pretty close to the actual pitch, I could see not wanting the extra thing to think about it up there too.

That being said, this is such a trash move by the Astros and arguably way worse than anything the Patriots did in videotaping practices.

MoBettle wrote:Cardinals had a guy go to jail for a crime and they got a slap on the wrist. They won't get anything.

Squire wrote:I mean the lead time on the signal was pretty close to the actual pitch, I could see not wanting the extra thing to think about it up there too.

That being said, this is such a trash move by the Astros and arguably way worse than anything the Patriots did in videotaping practices.

ReadingPhilly wrote:jomboy found the ab farquhar was referencing