Oakland A’s right-hander Mike Fiers has his reputation on the line this season—here's why:
Elsewhere, depending on who one listens to, he’s either the hero or the villain of the still swirling bomb cyclone surrounding his former team, the Houston Astros, regarding their electronic sign stealing during the 2017 World Series-winning season.‘Big Papi’ David Ortiz called him, a “snitch” last week from the Boston Red Sox’s camp in Fort Myers, Florida, echoing words spit from the lips of Pedro Martinez, who tabbed Fiers as a “bad teammate.
“It’s tough to say,” Cody Bellinger of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the reigning National League MVP, said in an interview earlier this month. “He felt like he needed to get it off his chest. He felt that it wasn’t right. It’s tough. It’s a rough situation.” Alex Cora and Carlos Beltran, then with the Astros and named as main culprits, were also fired as managers of the Red Sox and New York Mets, respectively.
That set off a firestorm of criticism, particularly from players of the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees. In 2017, the Dodgers lost the World Series and the Yankees the AL Championship Series to the Astros, both in seven games.The Astros have won three NL West titles in a row. Meanwhile, the A’s finished well behind the Astros the past two seasons, eliminated both times in the AL Wild Card Game.
Secondly, his own Red Sox are under investigation for a similar electronic sign-stealing gambit under Cora in 2018 when they won 119 games overall and defeated the Dodgers in the World Series. Manfred warned clubs, but concluded that in the end there wasn’t much he could actually do to prevent it.
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