MLB: The long, winding, painful reach of the sign-stealing scandal
By Jeff Kallman
MLB: The long, winding, painful reach of the sign-stealing scandal
Another ’17 Astro-turned-Met is Jake Marisnick, an outfielder who’s a rangy gazelle with a glove on his hand but swings a spaghetti bat by comparison. Something the New York Yankees forgot in Game Six of last year’s American League Championship Series. When Marisnick waited on deck, while Yankee manager Aaron Boone elected not to order his gassed reliever Aroldis Chapman to just put Jose Altuve aboard on 2-1 with two outs and despite George Springer on first.
Chapman could still hit three figures on the radar gun even gassed, but his GPS was off-line. Altuve hit the next pitch for a monstrous two-run homer to win the pennant for the Astros. And, provoke eventual questions of was-he/wasn’t-he wearing some sort of electronic device under his uniform once the revelation of the sign-stealing scandal took hold for permanent flight.
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Marisnick hasn’t yet spoken about Astrogate. But Mets outfielder Michael Conforto did, saying about him and Davis earlier this week, “They’re our guys now, and we’re moving forward.” Which struck Newsday columnist David Lennon as not necessarily surprising.
“In baseball, the only criminals are the players on the wrong side of the clubhouse door. The guys wearing the other uniform,” Lennon wrote.
"” …What choice does Conforto, and the Mets, really have in this situation? Despite spring training’s sunny promise of a fresh start, they’re stuck in the same ethical quagmire as many other teams currently housing former Astros of a certain vintage, 2017 and beyond.”"