![]() ![]() ![]() Jeff Passan The Indians warned the Red Sox about a man named Kyle McLaughlin taking pictures of their dugout for the Houston Astros. MLB this year instituted several layers of firewalls that both league and club officials say have cleaned things up immensely in 2019 following two straight Octobers in which off-field digital thievery exploded into public view and threatened to upstage the games themselves. Some of that is built-in paranoia in our game, too." Guys have cards now."Īdds recently deposed Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon: "It slows the game down, but, at the cost of losing a game, you're going to do whatever you can. "You have to do everything you can to combat it, and teams are doing that more in the regular season to prepare for the postseason. It impacts games," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says. ![]() Sign stealing and sign relaying always has been a part of the game, but digital theft gained entry as an unintended consequence of instant replay expansion in 2014, several MLB sources agree, and has spread as rapidly as a computer virus ever since. "It's such a small part," Jansen says of removing catchers' signs from viewers' sight.Įxcept, in the vast and shadowy world of modern MLB intelligence, nothing is small, and nothing is simple. So, little entertainment value will be lost. Viewers, Jansen argues, aren't going to understand the signs anyway. ![]() "It's about tapes and tapes and tapes that hitters see when they view their swings and figure out stuff like that," Jansen says. ![]()
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