No matter how inane, comical and marginally effective, if at all, the juvenile cheating by the Astros, Red Sox and possibly others, individuals should be held accountable for unethical conduct, including telling lies to cover up the cheating. Cheating doesn't have to work for the cheaters to deserve punishment. Offended parties should calm the heck down and not expect to be named champions, MVP, ... The nature of this cheating almost requires gross incompetence by the victim. Follow the first rule of boxing: protect yourself at all times. Now, about the New York teams:
Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner and general manager Brian Cashman need to address this issue.
Mets owner Fred Wilpon and general manager Brodie Van Wagenen need to address this issue. Lest we forget, Fred Wilpon invested with imprisoned con artist Bernie Madoff.
Most of all, Carlos Beltran needs to address this issue.
And if none of them address it, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, the A-Rod Slayer, needs to address it.
Beltran played MLB 1998-2017, including with:
Mets 2006-2011:
January 13, 2005: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Mets.
July 28, 2011: Traded by the New York Mets with cash to the San Francisco Giants for Zack Wheeler.
Yankees 2014-2016
December 19, 2013: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.
August 1, 2016: Traded by the New York Yankees to the Texas Rangers for Nick Green (minors), Erik Swanson and Dillon Tate.
Houston Astros 2017
December 5, 2016: Signed as a Free Agent with the Houston Astros.
November 2, 2017: Granted Free Agency.
You have to answer for Santino, Carlos (Beltran). Wednesday, January 15, 2020
In December 2018, the Yankees hired Beltran as a special adviser to general manager Brian Cashman.
On November 1, 2019, the Mets hired Beltran as their manager to replace Mickey Callaway, signing him to a three-year contract with a club option for a fourth year.
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So rather than being a toxic pariah, Carlos Beltran was a valued commodity. Was that because of his considerable resume and positive attributes or more for his knowledge of and involvement in the Houston Astros cheating, which began in 2017 when Beltran was still an Astros player, the only thing that's kept him from being punished by MLB? Commissioner Manfred has decided to avoid a confrontation with the players union.
The Boston Red Sox are awaiting MLB judgement for their same cheating. Fallout so far:
Astros: GM and field manager suspended one year by MLB and then fired by Astros; loss of draft picks; team fined maximum $5 million.
Red Sox got in front a bit and removed their manager and former Astros coach Alex Cora, who was named in the MLB report as the only non Astros player directly involved in implementing the cheating. Cora is also implicated in the same type of cheating when he was the Red Sox manager 2018-2019. But Cora's cheating as an Astros coach was enough to get him removed as Red Sox manager, no matter how delicately.
Is Beltran's hold on the Mets manager's job for the upcoming 2020 season already untenable?
More importantly, what were each of the New York teams thinking when they hired Carlos Beltran starting two years after his leadership role in the Astros cheating? Was their thinking only defensive or did it also include offense? Did the Yankees and/or Mets hire Carlos Beltran to install a bigger, better form of cheating on their behalf? Or did they simply want his expertise in defending their pitchers? The cry baby Yankees obviously had been too inept to protect themselves by simply changing to complex signs, you know, like teams have been doing for 100 years.
Brian Cashman: Yankees scored only 3 runs in 4 games in Houston in 2017. That's why they lost. Look in the damn mirror for the person to blame. Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Here are the Yankee runs scored in Houston in the 2017 ALCS: 1,1,1,0. You do that in the regular season, you probably lose all four games, no matter the opponent. The Astros cheating had nothing to do with the Yankees inability to score. NOTHING. So, the Yankees should stop whining but they won't because their baseball operations are headed by an incompetent weasel: General Manager Brian Cashman.
There's every indication that the Yankees suspected that the Astros were cheating in 2017 but failed to protect themselves. And we know that the Yankees complained about the Red Sox doing the same type of cheating back then...
Yankee General Manager Brian Cashman, the fool who was fooled ... for three years.
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Astros lost 2017 game featured as example of cheating. Monday, January 13, 2020 5:02 PM
Astros: 20% plate appearances runner on second in 2019. Monday, January 13, 2020 4:37 PM
Astros runs 2017 ALCS and 2019 WS. Sunday, December 29, 2019
2017: home team wins all 7 games: Astros beat New York Yankees
2019: road team wins all 7 games: Washington Nationals beat Astros
In the 2017 ALCS against the Yankees the scoring pattern suggests that the Yankees scored much better at home. If anything, it would seem more likely that the Yankees were stealing the signs. The disparity in Yankee home/road scoring average is huge, 5.5 runs. The Astros averaged 2 more runs at home.
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Astros home/road hitting splits 2017-2019. Saturday, December 28, 2019
Boone and/or Rothschild appear to give signs when Altuve homers to win 2019 pennant. Tuesday, November 19, 2019
... 6th and final game of the 2019 ALCS ... the Yankee catcher Gary Sanchez giving the signs to Yankee closer Aroldis Chapman ...
Sanchez is clearly getting the sign from the Yankee dugout and then passing it along to Chapman. The Astros and many people at the game could see this without any tech equipment. The Astros would have to quickly interpret or most likely already interpreted the Yankee signs, which are publicly visible.
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