The Dodgers have good reason to be sensitive about sign-stealing in baseball.
After all, Los Angeles was on the wrong side of a World Series bout with the 2017 Astros, who used technology and live video feeds to directly relay opponents’ signs to hitters in real time.
But the Dodgers’ hiring of former Red Sox video replay coordinator J.T. Watkins — who was suspended by MLB for the 2020 season for his role in a sign-stealing scandal — isn’t raising any alarms for many veterans in L.A.’s clubhouse.
Why is that?
“No matter what enhancements technology had back then, there needs to be a clear distinction between what the Astros did and what everybody else did,” Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw told Dylan Hernandez of The Los Angeles Times.