Since the game last Saturday, September 11, 2021, between the Yankees and the New York Mets have been heard whistling in some shifts of the Yankees as in one of today of Aaron Judge which ended in a 3-run homer to tie the game at 5 runs against the Minnesota Twins in the bottom of the eighth inning, which ended up winning 6-5 the Yankees and that returns the issue to the fore just one day after the weekend series against the Metropolitans and the altercation between Yankee Giancarlo Stanton and the Met the Puerto Rican Francisco Lindor in the last game of it. But are the Yankees stealing signs with whistles on their at-bats?
Whistles
It may just be a fanatic whistling, but Lindor in the altercation with Stanton asked the slugger with signs and the whistle putting his hands to his mouth in that way, and later in his statements he commented that he had heard him.
Whistle on Judge’s turn
And on Judge’s home run turn today, a whistle was also heard just before pitching:
Order in the Court 👨⚖️ pic.twitter.com/UQlohLGBwv
– New York Yankees (@Yankees) September 13, 2021
While the catcher of the Twins stood out and the pitcher didn’t throw it there and Judge didn’t miss it, the whistle thing is still drawing attention.
Also, the video is from the Yankees and you don’t have to be in the game to do that on your own social networks.
What the players say
Regarding the Yankees’ alleged whistles, Jonathan Villar said he heard them on Saturday when he was pitching Taijuan Walker against the Yankees.
While Aaron Boone the manager of the Yankees commented regarding the whistles that the Dominican pitcher Yankee Wandy Peralta loves that, it was him.
For his part, Stanton told Lindor in their verbal altercation: “If you have a problem with Wandy, talk it over with Wandy. Don’t talk to more people attracting everyone, especially in a grassroots run. “
Yankee background
This is the way things are since the Houston Astros’ electronic illegal stealing scandal in the 2017 season, also with the 2018 Boston Red Sox, even the Yankees have been associated since the apple watch, the letter from the court and even with cameras in the centerfield (central garden) of Yankee Stadium, without this having been verified by the Major Leagues as in the case of the sidereal and Red Sox.
Sign stealing
As is popularly said, sign stealing has always existed in baseball and more so in Major League Baseball, and it is so much the issue now with or without technology that some pitchers like the Los Angeles Dodgers or the Tampa Bay Rays prefer to commit a Intentional balk in extra innings when the runner is on second base with no out to advance to third base and supposedly not steal the sign.
Stealing signs with words or gestures is common in baseball, whatever the level.