As I’m sure everyone reading this already knows — and if you don’t, I’m sorry to be the one to break the news to you — the Red Sox were wrapped up in MLB’s sign-stealing scandal yesterday. Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal reported, with multiple sources who were with the team at the time, that, in 2018, Boston was using the video replay room to steal opponents’ pitch-calling sequences and relay them to baserunners, who then relayed them to the hitter at the plate. It is very clearly crossing the line of using technology to steal signs and it dampers the mystique of that historic team a bit.
It’s about ethics in baseball
