The Blue Jays aren’t over it.
Toronto’s players proceed to consider there was shadiness afoot earlier this month when Aaron Judge kept appearing to glance on the Yankees dugout during an at-bat before hitting a towering home run, as Blue Jays announcers Dan Shulman and Buck Martinez wondered aloud what the heck was occurring in real-time.
Blue Jays pitcher Chris Bassitt joined Chris Rose on Jomboy Media and explained what his team thinks happened.
“We knew what was occurring,” Bassitt said.
“They knew we were tipping. It that illegal? No, it’s not illegal.”
Bassitt called it a “gray area” for whether it was OK for first- and third base coaches to relay signs.
“Judge’s response to it? I haven’t any problem with it. Was it a lie? Yeah, it was a lie,” Bassitt said.
“What do you wish him to do, come out and say, ‘Hey, all their pitchers were tipping, and I’m gonna tell them how they’re tipping?’ I believe he just made up a story to form of say, like,’I’m not going to inform them they’re tipping. Like, why would I say that?’”
It is just not illegal in baseball to steal pitching signs provided there is no such thing as a use of technology.
Nevertheless, Judge denied that he was stealing signs.
His explanation for why he was the dugout was that he was bothered by his teammates complaining to the house plate umpire after manager Aaron Boone had already been ejected in a game the Yankees were leading 6-0.
Later, Judge was annoyed on the insinuation that he was cheating.
“I got some selection words about that, but higher just to maintain that off the record,” Judge told reporters when asked concerning the speculation by Martinez and Schulman.
“Especially with the things which have happened on this game with cheating stuff and to get that thrown out, I’m not joyful about it. But people can say what they need. I still got a game to play, I got things I gotta do. I told you guys what happened and everybody else could make their very own story about it.”
