Should all the players from that team never be allowed to be in the hall of fame?

The names u mentioned cheated for a decade. Our boys steal signs for 1+ year. And don’t forget about Boston and Yankees players involvement with this scandal as well. And we’re still waiting on the Boston investigation. And who knows, maybe Yankees or another team after. I don’t think the scandal/investigation is anywhere near over with.

 

They'd have to not let anyone into the hall who played in this era then

 

Thankfully you dont have a vote.

 

Implications of the Red Sox, Dodgers, Yankees, and Beltran being implicated and now managing the Nets, you sir, are largely correct.

 

The night is bringing the dumb out in posters/threads.

 

Get out of here with this.

 

I don’t think the media or players will hold this against them long term unless they deny it. Simply own it and it will be forgiven. Continue to deny and lie about it, they will sink their careers. It inflated their stats for sure, but I don’t think anyone will think much about it over their 20 year careers.

 

It will be real hard for Bergman to win MVP in the future. Voters gonna punish Stros for a few years.

 

C'mon man.

 

The Hall is full of cheaters. So ridiculous and disingenuous that Bonds and Clemens are left out. I disagree with the sentiment expressed in OP and find it very naïve.

 

I doubt it. Most of these players are years or decades away from even being considered for the Hall of Fame and if nothing more comes up and they continue to play at a high level this will become a footnote. Further for Justin Verlander it would be ludicrous to punish a pitcher for sign stealing by batters.

 

Unlike steroids, there was no clear benefit, as the team was so much better on the road than at home. It is just too much going on to make it very effective.

 

That's maybe the most lazy thing I've heard about all of this. Which stats did it inflate? Astros hitters during the 2017 regular season hit better across the board, in every major stat, on the road. It's not even close. They scored 106 more runs in 81 games on the road. They hit 8 more home runs on the road. The team batted 5 points higher on the road (Altuve hit 70 points higher on the road). 73 more hits. 16 more doubles. 8 more triples. 90 more RBI. Slugged 22 points higher. Which stat is clearly inflated by their "cheating"?

Two other points... the Astros stole signs. And? That doesn't mean you stole the correct sign. Teams use half a dozen signs per pitch. You have to guess at one, hope it's correct, signal to the batter and hope he makes contact. he other point - this has been going on as long as baseball has been around, dating back to 1876. Teams steal signs. It has evolved from base runners to binoculars to video cameras. It's been a part of the game, that has NOT been illegal, for almost 150 years.

 

plus as evidenced in the video of Gattis that surfaced, it's still up to the hitter to make contact, in which case he struck out. good points mate

 

I doubt they will have a chance to deny it or admit it. I'm pretty sure MLB has already told everyone talking about it is off limits

This thread is stupid by the way. Stealing signs is almost as old as baseball itself. As i've mentioned in another thread, Mike Scott back in the 90's admitted that one of the Mets teams he was on used a monitor from a center field stream to try and decode the catchers signs. And he wrote that in the 90's, not something he is talking about now

The Yankees and Red Sox were already fined for using electronics for stealing signs

So now we want to say it's so much worse because we did it after the commish warning. Before the warning using electronics was worth a fine, after the warning it's worth two mens jobs, 4 high draft picks and 5 million bucks?

Laughable

Yes we cheated, would be hard to find a team out there that doesn't in some way.

Take threads, and thoughts, like this and go find a new team to root for....then you can whine like a b*t*h when we whoop your new teams a*s

 

Per Michael Conner on the radio today, it is interesting to speculate on who exactly Roy O meant by that statement. Who would he have personal knowledge of that used steroids, and made it into the Hall?

The guys that we 'know' juiced, aren't there.

"Should these players be banned from the Hall?" LOL. Turn off ESPN. You'll feel a lot better and be a lot smarter.

 

I hope he didn't plan on having a long career in MLB. The narrative has been established by MLB and ESPN, and nothing against it is going to be entertained. He is the snitch that will get the stitch if he doesn't have ironclad proof of his allegations.

I think he's absolutely right, for what it's worth, but the truth doesn't matter.