Published: January 29, 2020
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I’m an Astros fan. To understand the scope of the Astros cheating & the players involved, I logged every trashcan bang from every Astros 2017 home game w/ video available. Over 8,200 pitches watched and over 1,100 trashcan bangs found. The results are at http://signstealingscandal.com...

Astros trashcan bangs by date. See all the data at http://signstealingscandal.com...

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Astros trashcan bangs by player: bangs vs their number of pitches. See all the data at http://signstealingscandal.com...

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Jose Altuve’s trashcan bangs vs the team total. He had 24 bangs on 866 pitches (2.8%).

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George Springer’s trashcan bangs vs the team total. He had 139 bangs on 933 pitches (14.9%).

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Alex Bregman’s trashcan bangs vs the team total. He had 133 bangs on 800 pitches (16.6%).

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Carlos Correa’s trashcan bangs vs the team total. He had 97 bangs on 594 pitches (16.3%).

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Marwin Gonzalez’s trashcan bangs vs the team total. He had 147 bangs on 776 pitches (18.9%).

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Yuli Gurriel’s trashcan bangs vs the team total. He had 120 bangs on 670 pitches (17.9%).

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Jake Marisnick’s trashcan bangs vs the team total. He had 83 bangs on 364 pitches (22.8%).

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Evan Gattis’s trashcan bangs vs the team total. He had 71 bangs on 427 pitches (16.6%).

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Brian McCann’s trashcan bangs vs the team total. He had 45 bangs on 507 pitches (8.9%).

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Josh Reddick’s trashcan bangs vs the team total. He had 28 bangs on 725 pitches (3.9%).

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Astros players trashcan bangs. See all the data at http://signstealingscandal.com...

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You can click on any of the games in the list to get details about each pitch. You can even play the audio and hear the bangs for yourself or follow the link to view the pitch on YouTube.

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The data for every pitch is available in Excel and CSV formats. http://signstealingscandal.com...

@adams_at Can I use all this information for a Graduate Paper of ethics and the effects of social mood in society?

@JoshV__ Sure. Let me know if you need anything.

@adams_at So for all those games where you heard banging, Opponents won 29 games, Astros won 27 games. Must be a very effective strategy. Assuming you are correct with all that you heard, it doesn't seem to help them much as they lose more games with it.

@palanggana2000 There are some independent analyses of the data on the site. https://signstealingscandal.co...

@adams_at so you logged all loud noises before a pitch that you think were trash can bangs and concluded that they are? And no other teams did this?

@palanggana2000 If I thought it could be a trash can bang, I logged it. You can go to the site & listen to any pitch & see a spectrogram. I’ve investigated other teams, but found no evidence they were using audible signals to steal signs. That doesn't mean they weren’t. #ab_34 class="text-blue-500 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://signstealingscandal.co...

@adams_at So they only cheated a little bit?

@adams_at Stop trying to justify it .... they should be kicked from the league .

@StephenKing780 LOL! There wouldn't be a league left if they started that.

@adams_at Way to bang this out

@adams_at This is great & surprising work, Tony!

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@adams_at 🤔🤔🤔

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@adams_at Didn’t have a chance to look through all this yet but how does the fact that a “non bang” signifying a pitch type factor into all of this?

@adams_at I don't know if anyone told you already, but you did a bang up job on this research. But unfortunately MLB wants to toss it in a trashcan.

@adams_at Labor, meet intensive, and both of you say hi to maniacally obsessive.

@adams_at So 13% of home pitches were banged. You need to double that (at least) to account for non-banging signaling a fastball. That puts it at 26-28% of home games. Then divide that in half because there were no bangs on the road. Roughly 14% of pitches that regular season were sent.

@adams_at Hey man, nice job

@adams_at This is incredible

@adams_at Aug 2 seems like a strange omission. I’d be VERY interested in that one. Weird nothing is available 🤷🏻‍♂️

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