J.D. on 56-57 HR pace for 162 games.

Cleveland hasn't lost since Aug 23

Also check out Bauer's summary of the chatter w him and A Garcia today. Good stuff

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/i...visail-garcia/

JD's SLG .617--->.654 tonight.

lol Bauer. what a *****.

2war pitcher running his mouth

And we are the youngest team. Why does every other team in the league suck more than the Dbacks?

How many WAR before you oblige guys asking for fastballs?

At least 5 when you're an aspie clown.

Randyyyyyy

Tiger beat writers are saying he waited until one minute before midnight to sign off on the Houston trade because he really wanted to go to the Cubbies

For once the playoffs is going to be stacked with good teams. In old days the sox would make the playoffs then crush the angels in first round cause mike scosica sucks. This year it will be houston, indians, yankees and sox???? that is gonna be pretty sick. NL is pretty sick this year too.

Hoping for Indians Diamondbacks WS

Both teams may be riding 40+ game winning streaks by then too!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/s...imes&smtyp=cur

boston used apple watches to steal signals from the yankees, possibly other teams

Heres hoping it results in a Farrell suspension

Boston team cheating, how new

I'd lol Signgate or sth bit honestly not sure why sign stealing is frowned upon at all.

Not sure why sign stealing is frowned upon? Seriously?

Sign stealing with your eyes = fine
Sign stealing with tech = questionable

Well I'm not native to baseball so bear with me.

But I imagine the reason the catcher doesn't just yell the next pitch to the pitcher is that he batter would obviously hear it and react accordingly, and I don't think anyone could blame him for it. So if a batter can crack the code another way, why is it suddenly wrong?

trying to pick up signs happens all the time. its illegal to have electronics in the dugout to help you do it

Yeah I get that. Which is why I said I don't get why it's frowned upon at all.. since even the type that happens all the time seems frowned upon at least in some circles.

I'm ok with this line of thinking, though I'd change "questionable" to "flat our cheating".

If the batter can pick something up about the way a pitcher holds his glove while he adjusts his grip on certain pitches, or any physical tell he gives, by all means use that tell. But if a batter is having signs relayed to him by the runner on 2nd base, a base coach, or from the dugout, that's outside the gray area, imo......especially if those signs were only possible because of the use of video camera and other electronics.

I'm sure others will have vastly different opinions though.

On the same topic, has something been going on with the Dodgers and sign stealing recently? I've noticed the Dbacks spending a lot more time having the catcher walk out and tell the pitcher what to throw next verbally as of late. Mainly against LA. Not so much last night because, well, they couldn't get anybody to second base.

usually if you are successful it pretty much always happens in a way that is against the rules, like having someone in the stands relaying info

Runner on 2nd relaying it is fine IMO as he is in the line of sight naturally, it's why the catcher does the signs differently with a runner there. That's the only one I can think of that might be accepted. Using an Apple Watch is obviously flat out cheating.

Right this is obviously the correct take. Being mad at a runner on 2nd figuring out signs with his eyes is one of those old baseball rules that makes no sense. But there's obviously a difference between that and hiding a camera to see signs and then relaying them to hitters.