![]() Going back to the sign stealing, a commonly heard response is, “Well, even if he didn’t participate in it, he didn’t do anything to stop it.” Derek Jeter didn’t do anything to stop his teammates from using steroids and Cody Bellinger obviously hasn’t done anything to stop the pitchers on his team from using foreign substances, but no one seems to have a problem with that.īesides, what was Altuve supposed to do? He was a 27 year-old who’s relatively quiet to begin with. Any hitter worth his salt would’ve sat on the slider, and it helped that Chapman threw a cement mixer right over the heart of the plate - with Jake Marisnick on deck, no less. The problem with that is Chapman couldn’t control his fastball in that appearance and the Astros knew it. Others will claim there’s no way Altuve could have hit that pitch unless he knew what was coming. Why would they want to rip his jersey off if they knew he was wearing a buzzer? But logic would dictate that if such a scheme were being utilized, his teammates would have known about it. Proponents of the buzzer theory point to the fact that Altuve didn’t want his teammates to rip off his jersey following the home run. So we know Altuve did not participate in the sign stealing scheme, but what about the buzzer theory? As we’ve said on this site many times, that outlandish theory has been debunked, as there’s not a shred of evidence that Altuve was wearing a buzzer under his uniform to signal what pitch was coming when he homered off Aroldis Chapman to end the 2019 ALCS. This is consistent with what we’ve heard before, but now we have a New York-based journalist confirming it. He said “when Altuve would hear a bang he would glare into the dugout,” letting his teammates know to cut it out. There are a very limited number of cases in which a trash can bang was heard during one of Altuve’s at-bats, and Martino addresses that as well. This has been further confirmed, with Martino explaining that “MLB investigators had developed an understanding that he was not interested in having the signs” before anything was publicly reported. Several Astros players have said publicly that Altuve didn’t participate in the sign stealing scheme and didn’t want to have signs relayed to him during his at-bats. But the writer himself has confirmed some things on social media. As if we needed any more, we have none other than a New York-based journalist also confirming that the Houston Astros star is not at all deserving of the hate he’s receiving.Īndy Martino, who covers the Yankees and Mets for SNY, has released a book titled “Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing.” I have not read the book, as it was just released this week, so I don’t pretend to know what’s in it or what conclusions one could draw from it. Jose Altuve continues to be a lightning rod across the baseball landscape in spite of all the evidence that he is not, in fact, a cheater. We all know Astros star Jose Altuve didn’t cheat, and now a New York writer confirms it.
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