Former Boston Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts admitted to stealing signals from opposing teams during 2018 regular season games, adding he doesn’t remember the exact occasions.
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In an interview published by the Los Angeles Times newspaper, the star player, who now plays for the Dodgers, mentioned that he knew exactly what was going on at the time.
Additionally, Major League Baseball handed out fewer penalties against the Sox than it did against the Houston Astros the previous year. Boston lost a second-round pick in the 2020 draft while its video replay manager, JT Watkins, was suspended for a year.
Also, the Dodgers recently hired this one, an arrival that’s causing conversation in California. However, Betts wanted to defend his ex-organization and at the same time Watkins by praising the achievements of the 2018 World Series champions.
“It’s hard to remember. People are trying to give us cheater status. They have to give us the credit. We had a good lineup, Cy-Young Trophy winners, MVPs, Golden Glove and Silver Stick winners. We “We had everything. We have to take that into account,” said the man, who has worn the colors of the Dodgers since 2020.
“He does his job well. He’s played baseball and gets it right, he added of Watkins. He knows the information we need and he gives it to us.”
Unlike the 2017 Astros, the following year’s Sox did not use a signal stealing system in the playoffs. World Series losers for Los Angeles, they also saw their manager Alex Cora receive a one-year sanction, but the penalty was related to his role in Houston.