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[Jeffrey Smith]

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James Paxton out 3-4 months with a microscopic lumbar discectomy. [emoji849]

Yes I had to look that ailment up.

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Yanks in the market for a starter now perhaps?


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[DamnYanks2]

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Yanks in the market for a starter now perhaps?


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Possibly. I know Montgomery would be ready to go. Maybe they give super prospect Deivi Garcia a look. Loaisiga will get a chance. They could shift through those 3.

German is likely to return in June as well.

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[DieHardYankee26]

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Really? More like **** the Astros


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With the punishment they gave out the league said what the Astros did was ok, so I’m at **** the league now. Pete Rose accepted a punishment 30 years ago and cries about it every six months for publicity. The two have nothing to do with each other.

[Caulfield]

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I still think all sportsball players should be forced to bet on their team. but Pete Rose should man up and accept the same fate as Shoeless Joe: lifetime ban. I think Shoeless Joe's ban should have ended in December 1951, and let the voters vote. same for Pete, when he's gone, the ban should go to. so now I feel like their lifetime ban isn't only going to last their lifetime but mine as well.

[Rocket32]

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Wilpons right now

[Master Live 013]

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Jessica Mendoza has resigned as a Met advisor and will no longer be on Sunday Night Baseball. She will remain on ESPN, doing weekday games, among other things.
— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) February 7, 2020

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[DamnYanks2]

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Jessica Mendoza has resigned as a Met advisor and will no longer be on Sunday Night Baseball. She will remain on ESPN, doing weekday games, among other things.
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There is a God.

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[Caulfield]

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There is a God.

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then what's he got against ESPN?

[DamnYanks2]

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then what's he got against ESPN?

How ever could we learn about Mookie Betts and his ability to bowl? LA brass needed to know that before the trade.

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[Master Live 013]

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EXCLUSIVE: A January letter from Rob Manfred to Jeff Luhnow reveals the Astros "dark arts" and "Codebreaker" — the operation behind the Astros' sign-stealing scandal.https://t.co/wrh3EJCICy
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[Master Live 013]

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The Houston Astros' front office laid the groundwork for the team's electronic sign-stealing ploys via a program dubbed "Codebreaker" that was introduced by an intern in the organization in September 2016, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.


According to the WSJ, the Excel-based application designed to decode opposing catchers' signs was used throughout the 2017 season and for part of 2018 by Astros baseball operations employees and video room staffers both at home and on the road.


Staffers would log the catcher's signs and subsequent pitches into a spreadsheet and "Codebreaker" would determine how the signs related to different pitches. The information would then be communicated to the hitter by a baserunner via an intermediary.


Astros players eventually evolved the system to include banging on a trash can to warn hitters of the coming pitch.


Ex-Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow told MLB investigators that he remembers the intern's PowerPoint slide about "Codebreaker," but said he thought it would be used to legally decipher signs from previous games, according to the WSJ.


The former intern, Derek Vigoa, currently works as the Astros' senior manager of team operations. Vigoa told investigators that he assumed Luhnow knew the program would be used in live games.


The team's director of advance information, Tom Koch-Weser, also alleges Luhnow knew about the system. According to the WSJ, Koch-Weser told MLB that the former GM would occasionally go to the Astros' video room during road games and make comments like, "You guys Codebreaking?"


Luhnow declined the WSJ's request for comment but, according to the paper's reporting, denied Koch-Weser's accounts to MLB, and investigators could find no definitive proof that Luhnow knew how "Codebreaker" was being used.


Luhnow was fired by the Astros last month, shortly after MLB suspended him for one season.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28655757/report-astros-front-office-laid-groundwork-codebreaker-sign-stealing-program

[Master Live 013]

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So the two things I take away from this report are:

1) It says that the Astros cheated both at home and the road.

2) The sign stealing scheme was introduce by Derek Vigoa, an intern at the time, and Vigoa currently still works as the Astros' senior manager of team operations. Needless to say that he should be fired.

[kehlis]

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2) The sign stealing scheme was introduce by Derek Vigoa, an intern at the time, and Vigoa currently still works as the Astros' senior manager of team operations. Needless to say that he should be fired.

I think we're being naive if we don't think every team in the league has some sort of advance scouting system trying to decipher opponents signs.

[Master Live 013]

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They can try and if it is by electronic means and they get caught then they get fired.

[Master Live 013]

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And banned, preferably for life but some seem to think that's too harsh.