Commissioner’s 2017 Letter to the Yankees on Sign Stealing

Mr. Brian Cashman September 14, 2017 Web page 2

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then bodily relayed the data to the Yankees’ dugout. that in that very same time interval, in sure stadiums on the street the place the video room was not proximate to the dugout, used the cellphone line within the replay room to orally present real-time details about opposing Membership’s indicators to Yankee coaches on the bench.

Part VI(C)(2)(c) of the Replay Evaluate Rules (2-14) gives as follows:

The dugout cellphone will probably be linked to the video overview location. If the dugout cellphone doesn’t work at any level in the course of the sport, upon notifying the house plate Umpire, the Supervisor shall be permitted to speak together with his Membership’s video overview location through walkie-talkie. On-field personnel within the dugout might not talk about any situation with people of their video overview room utilizing the dugout cellphone aside from whether or not to problem a play topic to video Replay Evaluate.

The Yankees’ use of the dugout cellphone to relay details about an opposing Membership’s indicators in the course of the 2015 season, and a part of the 2016 season, constitutes a cloth violation of the Replay Evaluate Rules. By utilizing the cellphone within the video overview room to instantaneously transmit data relating to indicators to the dugout in violation of the Rules, the Yankees had been in a position to present real-time data to their gamers relating to an opposing Membership’s signal sequence – the identical goal of the Crimson Sox’s scheme that was the topic of the Yankees’ criticism.¹

Primarily based on the foregoing, the Yankees are hereby fined $100,000. Please ship a verify in that quantity, made payable to Main League Baseball Charities, to my consideration. The cash will probably be used for Hurricane Irma reduction.

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As you recognize, on September 5, 2017, the Crimson Sox submitted a separate formal criticism and request that my workplace examine the Yankees, alleging that the Yankees have employed “strategies of signal stealing and relaying, in addition to different questionable strategies of gathering data on opposing groups’ methods,” which have included “utilizing YES Community cameras pointed at [the Red Sox’s] teaching employees and gamers giving indicators within the dugout, with a purpose to achieve an unlawful benefit within the sport.” My workplace has completely investigated the Crimson Sox’s claims on this regard and has concluded they’re with out advantage. The Crimson Sox additionally submitted a video clip from a YES Community broadcast of a June 13, 2017 sport between the Yankees and the Angels in Anaheim that seems to indicate a Yankees bullpen coach watching the Angels’ community broadcast of the sport on an unauthorized iPad within the Yankees’ bullpen. The published is on a one-pitch delay, and there’s no proof the Yankees had been utilizing the iPad as a part of an indication stealing scheme. Regardless, use of this iPad violated On-Discipline Regulation 1-2.A.

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