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An interview Ken Rosenthal conducted with Jose Altuve after the Houston Astros won the ALCS last season gained widespread attention on Thursday, but the reporter insists he did not suspect that Altuve was covering anything up when the two spoke amid …
The sports world went wild on Thursday with allegations that some of the Houston Astros’ top players wore electronic buzzing devices that communicated what pitch was coming during their at-bats. The allegations of this extremely advanced form …
Jose Altuve denies that he wore an electronic buzzer during games as he has been accused of. On Thursday, there days after MLB handed out punishments to the Houston Astros for cheating, accusations flew that some of the Astros’ best players …
As more and more allegations about the Houston Astros’ cheating emerges, more players are feeling emboldened to speak out. On Thursday, that included some members of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who lost to the Astros in the 2017 World Series, the …
An interview from Jose Altuve after his huge home run to send the Houston Astros to the World Series last season, coupled with the infielder’s behavior after the homer, have fueled more speculation about the Astros illegally using an electronic …
Major League Baseball confirmed this week that the Houston Astros cheated during their World Series season in 2017, and the majority of the findings centered around a video feed that was used to decode signs and someone banging on a trash can to …
Major League Baseball was forced to publicly address its sign stealing scandal in large part because of Mike Fiers blowing the whistle on the Houston Astros, and the fact that pitcher ratted on his former team does not sit well with Jessica Mendoza. …
Justin Verlander is one of the more outspoken players in MLB, but he, like his other Houston Astros teammates, has been quiet since the league handed down punishment to the team on Monday. That’s particularly notable in Verlander’s case …
The sports world has had a day to digest the punishments handed down to the Houston Astros for cheating. Apparently it didn’t take very long for the baseball world to decide how they felt about things. ESPN’s Jeff Passan published a story …
If you are a Dodgers fan or fan upset about the Astros cheating, this is the blog post for you. Houston was punished by MLB on Monday for cheating during their 2017 championship season. GM Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch were both suspended a season …
No MLB team is more aggrieved by the Houston Astros news than perhaps the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers lost the World Series to Houston in seven games in 2017. Yu Darvish was knocked out of both his starts early by Houston, including in Game 7, …
Yu Darvish continues to demonstrate he has an elite sense of humor. The Chicago Cubs pitcher was on the mound for Games 3 and 7 of the 2017 World Series for the Dodgers and was hit hard by the Houston Astros both times, losing both games. That came …
In his first comments since being suspended for the season by MLB and fired by the Houston Astros, general manager Jeff Luhnow took full responsibility for the team’s cheating scandal and said the buck stops with him. Just kidding. Rather, in …
Former Houston Astros manager AJ Hinch paid arguably the biggest price for his role in the team stealing signs during its World Series season in 2017, but he maintains that he never endorsed or had any direct involvement with the practice. Hinch, who …
Many current and former members of the Houston Astros organization are taking a lot of heat over Major League Baseball’s findings in the team’s cheating scandal, but the shot Paul Lo Duca took at former teammate Carlos Beltran will be …
Major League Baseball has dropped the hammer on the Houston Astros over their elaborate sign-stealing scheme that they implemented during their World Series season in 2017, but let us not be naive enough to think the league had no knowledge of it …
