MLB letter offers few details into New York's use of replay room to relay signs and led...
after the system became public in January 2020. The league also fined the franchise $5 million and took away its first- and second-round draft picks in 2020 and 2021.
Manfred’s letter to Cashman helps reinforce two long-held beliefs: Electronic sign-stealing predated the Astros’ infamous trash can banging scheme and ran rampant throughout the sport before stricter enforcement arrived in September 2017. Multiple players across baseball have acknowledged it since the Astros were punished and became pariahs.
In a letter dated Sept. 14, 2017, Manfred wrote to Cashman that within the course of the league’s investigation into the Red Sox, an unnamed Boston player told investigators the Yankees used a similar scheme to decode signs. The staffer’s name is redacted in the letter. The Boston player, who had played for the Yankees earlier in his career, is also not named.
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