There is a common soundtrack to major league spring training this year, and the Astros probably won’t want to listen in.
In the wake of Houston’s illegal sign stealing, baseball’s worst scandal since the steroid era, the opening days of camp in Arizona and Florida have become a platform for players voicing their displeasure with the Astros.
“It’s one of those things where there is a way to go about ‘cheating,’ if that’s the word, and there’s a way not to,” Rockies reliever Scott Oberg said. “In other words, there is a way to steal signs (in non-technological ways).