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Title: Former MLB Pitcher Sues Houston Astros Over Sign-Stealing Scandal
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URL Source: https://www.westernjournal.com/form ... f_content=conservative-tribune
Published: Feb 10, 2020
Author: AP Reports
Post Date: 2020-02-11 11:21:48 by BTP Holdings
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Views: 586
Comments: 2

Former MLB Pitcher Sues Houston Astros Over Sign-Stealing Scandal

Eric Christian Smith / AP
Toronto Blue Jays relief pitcher Mike Bolsinger, left, walks off the mound as Houston Astros' Marwin Gonzalez rounds the bases after hitting a three-run home run Aug. 4, 2017, at Minute Maid Park. (Eric Christian Smith / AP)

By AP Reports

Published February 10, 2020 at 2:08pm

Former major league pitcher Mike Bolsinger sued the Houston Astros on Monday, claiming their sign-stealing scheme contributed to a poor relief appearance in August 2017 that essentially ended his big league career. Bolsinger’s lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeks unspecified damages for interfering with and harming his career.

He’s also asking that the Astros forfeit their nearly $30 million in postseason shares from their 2017 World Series title, with the money going to children’s charities in Los Angeles and a fund for needy retired players.

According to the suit, Bolsinger, then a reliever with the Toronto Blue Jays, was put into a game at Houston on Aug. 4, 2017, and allowed four runs, four hits and three walks in one-third of an inning in a 16-7 loss.

The suit said the right-hander “was immediately terminated and cut from the team, never to return to Major League Baseball again.”

He was demoted to Triple-A and hasn’t pitched in the major leagues since. He was 0-3 with a 6.31 ERA in 11 appearances with Toronto in 2017.

The 32-year-old pitched in Japan in 2018-19 and is seeking a job with a big league club for this season.

The Astros didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Commissioner Rob Manfred found the Astros broke rules against electronic sign stealing in 2017, including during the postseason.

Manager A.J. Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow were fired last month.

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According to MLB’s investigation, the Astros used a video feed to steal opposing teams’ signs and then tipped off their batters to off-speed pitches by banging on a garbage can.

According to Bolsinger’s lawsuit, graphic designer and web developer Tony Adams wrote a web application to document every instance of banging on a trash can during Astros home games in 2017.

He found that the most bangs occurred in that Aug. 4, 2017, game, including on 12 of 29 pitches Bolsinger threw, the lawsuit said.

Hinch told the media that night that it was “not unusual for us to have big nights when we put good at-bats together,” according to the lawsuit.

Bolsinger also pitched for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers in his four-year career, going 8-19 with a 4.92 ERA.

Poster Comment:

Sign stealing is part of the game.

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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Sign stealing is part of the game.

Not when it involves cameras and other tools that only a team playing with a home field advantage can utilize.

Pinguinite  posted on  2020-02-11   12:51:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Not when it involves cameras and other tools that only a team playing with a home field advantage can utilize.

That is why the MLB (the Commissioner) has outlawed electronic sign stealing. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-02-11   13:16:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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