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MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred apparently apparently discovered another aspect of baseball to repair. According to a report by Sports Illustrated Tom Verducci, the league incorporates a series of new regulations that will ban theft of high-tech panels, such as the Houston Astros used in the playoffs of last season, thus bringing the practice back to its folkloric origins.
They are the proposed rules, according to IF:
In addition to prohibiting all internal control cameras from one central pole to another, the rule provides that:
- The only live stream of a broadcast will be the one provided to the designated official of each team.
- A specially trained monitor, not a Resident Security Officer, will be assigned to each designated retransmission officer to ensure that this person has no communication with the staff of the team regarding signs, which in person, by telephone or otherwise.
- All other TV and clubhouse monitors will receive game broadcasts with a delay of eight seconds.
- No television monitor is allowed in the tunnels or the auxiliary rooms between the canoe and the pavilion.
- Each club must provide the MLB with an audit of each internal camera, specifying its purpose, its cabling and the location where its signal can be viewed.
The reasoning behind the change is that it will improve the pace of play, Manfred's favorite project:
Commissioner Rob Manfred felt that these restrictions were necessary because the theft of high-tech panels was becoming more commonplace and slowing down the game because of the paranoia it engendered. Last November, the CEOs strongly endorsed the adoption of such rules rather than engaging in what they saw as a "high-tech weapon race to cheat" , according to a source.
This is a reasonably reasonable explanation. Dragging games because more and more paranoid teams are engaged in cryptic battles is not fun for anyone. This will likely put an end to other innovations in sign making, which could have at least resulted in entertaining discussions, or even less entertainment in the field.
As for high-level entertainment, the most amusing report of Verducci's report is that managers and general managers will have something of a pledge of abstinence that will be imposed on them by the league:
To ensure that teams comply with the rule, the MLB holds general managers and directors personally accountable for compliance. Before and after each season, each General Manager (or Baseball Operations President) and his / her manager must sign a document certifying that his / her club complies with the anti-signature flight rules and that he / she does not know of any "premeditated plan for stealing". signs". "A source said.
These new rules seem to prevent the implementation of an Astros type program next season, but who can say that the teams will not develop even more advanced forms of quibbles in response? I say that the theft of signs is a post-apocalyptic wasteland, in which teams use drones, wearable devices and AI to make the most of their possibilities. At least, it would be fun to see Javy Baez, protector of the signs, hit a baseball against a drone hovering over the stadium.
