Wednesday, August 10, 2011

ESPN: THE MAGAZINE is pretty sure the Blue Jays are stealing signs

Can you spot "a man dressed in white"?
Here's the story:


The enraged player and his teammates could hardly believe what they had seen in the previous inning. As they sat on the perch above the right-field bullpen at Rogers, they caught sight of a man dressed in white about 25 yards to their right, out among the blue center-field seats. And while the players watched, the man in white seemingly signaled the pitches the visiting pitcher was throwing against the Jays, according to four sources in the bullpen that day.


If so, good. 


KS


UPDATE: Keith Law and Eric Karabell talked about this on the Baseball Today podcast, and they both totally buy it, by the sounds of things. They mention that Cito was known for stealing signs, which we all knew, I think, and Law tells a story about a time my favourite baseball player Carlos Delgado figured out that Pedro Martinez was tipping his pitches, and he just sat on the bench calling out "change up" and whatnot, and they lit him up. Law doesn't mention this, but I like to think the story ends like this:







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