You're Rob Manfred. It's a month from now, you've interviewed a ton of people, your staff has uncovered emails and texts, and there's no question anymore:
What do you do in response? Or: Looking at Manfred from the outside, what are you personally hoping that he does, or think he should do?
(this is different than what you expect MLB / Manfred will do, but I only get one poll question and think it's easier to discuss people's own opinions than something unprovable about what someone else's actions will be)
- The Astros wired their home field such that they could steal signs and communicate the results to batters before the pitch is delivered
- This resulted in a huge competitive advantage that road teams of course had no ability to fight or match, other than changing signs routinely
- They used this not just in 2017 but in 2018 and 2019 as well, including in the postseason, periodically when they needed it
- It was ordered, ultimately, by the GM Jeff Luhnow and front office, and put in place by the coaching staff and various operations teams, with the general awareness of the owner, Jim Crane, and of course the players were told what would be coming for them and to rely on it
- They also attempted to replicate some form of this in others' stadiums when they're on the road, though used less often
- They attempted to hide all of the above for the past few years, until Fiers blew the lid off it
- There are rumors about other teams doing similar, and evidence that some were decoding signs and/or trying to steal using just the players on the field, but nobody else is conclusively found to have set up electronic systems to do this in a high-tech, wholesale manner
What do you do in response? Or: Looking at Manfred from the outside, what are you personally hoping that he does, or think he should do?
(this is different than what you expect MLB / Manfred will do, but I only get one poll question and think it's easier to discuss people's own opinions than something unprovable about what someone else's actions will be)