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Pedro Martinez Reacts to the Yankees Relaying Signs on Pitches | MLB on TBS · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Certain things have been happening that I need to know
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  Speaker 1: what Pedro thinks. And one of them has been this
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  Speaker 1: new sign tipping that the Yankees at all. So let's
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  Speaker 1: get into this Sunday, Max Scherzer on the mound, and
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  Speaker 1: we have judge here, very blatantly showing a little tip
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  Speaker 1: right here. It led to a big first inning. Here
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  Speaker 1: was the big hit for Bellinger, and then Ben Rice
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  Speaker 1: hit a three run home run off the tenth pitch.
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  Speaker 1: It is not discreet, it is blatant. This goes back
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  Speaker 1: to July Jazz here showing the sign ended up getting
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  Speaker 1: into a big argument with the coaching staff there in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was Eddie Perez going back and forth saying,
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  Speaker 1: oh they're whining, Bellinger saying, listen, we're good at it. Also,
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  Speaker 1: Toronto manager John Schneider said afterwards, the whole league knows
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees are good. When they got something, we got
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  Speaker 1: to do a better job. Catcher cal Rowley said, they're
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  Speaker 1: not discreet.
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  Speaker 2: I guess is the word.
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  Speaker 1: The reason I want to talk to you is if
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  Speaker 1: somebody was tipping your pitches, how would you respond? Because
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  Speaker 1: I think I know the answer.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I saw a couple of mistakes there, and you
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  Speaker 3: have to also be cautious when you when you do
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  Speaker 3: the things you do on top of the mount. I
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  Speaker 3: saw Churcher, he goes up. He's pretty wide open on
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  Speaker 3: his glove. It's easy to pick up a grip on
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  Speaker 3: a change up or maybe a breaking ball. If you
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  Speaker 3: have a spike breaking ball, it's easy to tell. So
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  Speaker 3: they probably have a sign this. This might be a
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  Speaker 3: breaking ball, this might be location. But what I saw
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  Speaker 3: from justism there is that he picked on Montero. He
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  Speaker 3: picked so he was seeing obviously something from the glove.
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  Speaker 3: He was seeing the grip. He was seeing something, but
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  Speaker 3: he was relating it pretty good. See that's a breaking ball.
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  Speaker 3: That means there's a break on it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the same thing, judge.
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  Speaker 3: That's but that's that's breaking ball. They're seeing it clear,
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  Speaker 3: and it's probably because of the grip. You can actually
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  Speaker 3: go right here and you see that's a fastball. If
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  Speaker 3: you have your glove right there and they see those fingers,
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  Speaker 3: that's a fastball. But you see this, that's a change up,
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  Speaker 3: and you can easily tell if you're on the back
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  Speaker 3: of it there. But I think it's the picture's duty
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  Speaker 3: to actually be careful with it, pay attention to what
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  Speaker 3: the runner is doing behind you. And also if you
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  Speaker 3: have to take matters into your hands, don't say anything.
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  Speaker 3: Don't allow a coach to say anything. Just take an
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  Speaker 3: earflap from someone and the ball just slipped out of
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  Speaker 3: your fingers.
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  Speaker 1: That's all.
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  Speaker 4: But Patrick, you're feel a good job of the man
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  Speaker 4: in the glove. You'd have a grip to show them
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  Speaker 4: and you would switch.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll switch.
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  Speaker 4: You know, like everyone talks me, why don't they switch
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  Speaker 4: things with the glove.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the way. But that's part of the work
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  Speaker 3: that you have to do. You see, like someone is
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  Speaker 3: relaying signs and I have the abilities to do this.
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  Speaker 3: This is fastball. Now you related to the guy that
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  Speaker 3: that was a fastball, and on the way.
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  Speaker 1: Back you can change your grip on the way yeah,
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  Speaker 1: on the way back.
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  Speaker 3: On the way back, I.
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  Speaker 2: Was I didn't see that standing right here, I see it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can take it from here.
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  Speaker 2: The difference that know is he could have he could
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  Speaker 2: have done this and said, hey, the change up coming,
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  Speaker 2: and you still.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I trusted him too. But you also have
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  Speaker 3: to look at your pitches.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the rice one was not located. That's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you go back and look at the
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  Speaker 2: Rice one, it was supposed to be change up down
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  Speaker 2: in a way, he cuts across it and it's middle
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  Speaker 2: end up that boll should be here.
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  Speaker 3: But that that also could be a part of the
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  Speaker 3: distraction that the guys hob on you by looking at
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  Speaker 3: your pitches. It could, it could the game could really
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  Speaker 3: speed up on you if you if you're not sure
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  Speaker 3: what to do in that moment.
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  Speaker 4: And as they said, everyone knows that the Yankees are
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  Speaker 4: doing it, they need to be a little more discreet
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  Speaker 4: about it. And this isn't like new teams have been
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  Speaker 4: doing this historically. If you can to show us something,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to try to take advantage of it. What
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  Speaker 4: we used to do with the Yankees is if it
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  Speaker 4: was this today, tomorrow, it might be this the next day,
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  Speaker 4: it might be this. I'm looking that at you. We
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  Speaker 4: would just keep switching it up on you if we
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  Speaker 4: had it so that way, hope everybody didn't know what
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  Speaker 4: the sequence was. So you look at that clip of
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  Speaker 4: Jazz in a previous game, it's the same way they're
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  Speaker 4: giving the sequence. Now now you're kind of giving your
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  Speaker 4: tail away. Just have a meeting real quick. All right, today,
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  Speaker 4: we're not going to do the arm flap. We're gonna
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  Speaker 4: put our hands on our hips and that's going to
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  Speaker 4: be our way back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean back then because of the ear flap potential.
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  Speaker 2: Allegedly it was the hand of the helmet, it was
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  Speaker 2: stepped forward, it was touched the base. I got it.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't see what did I say, the Saint Joe yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Thing.
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  Speaker 2: It was never that that egregious.
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  Speaker 3: Back then. It was sequenced like it was with your fingers.
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  Speaker 3: But now you have the pitch com so it's it's
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  Speaker 3: impossible for them to probably uh hear what they're saying.
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  Speaker 3: But I think they're picking it from what you do,
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  Speaker 3: your tendencies. They're watching videos. They see how high you
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  Speaker 3: go on the breaking ball, how low you stay with
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  Speaker 3: your fastball, what do you do with your change up.
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  Speaker 3: They're probably picking that up and then relaying that. At
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  Speaker 3: the same time, you don't have to say anything. Just
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  Speaker 3: plump the guy that you think is doing that to you.
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  Speaker 3: And then we learned that lesson a lot quicker. There
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  Speaker 3: we go.
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  Speaker 2: That's one lesson.
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  Speaker 1: There's another one that's two lesson learned. Yeah, five lesson learned,
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  Speaker 1: Hey go.
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  Speaker 4: Back, Pedro just stood there. Pedro was not scared at all.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see that tonight. Is that is that a
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  Speaker 1: violation of the unwritten rules of baseball doing that?
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  Speaker 2: Or is this okay?
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  Speaker 3: That's that's an unwritten rule. It's not a violation. Whatever
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  Speaker 3: we do to let you know, take it