Red Sox scouting report vs. Padres was caught on camera, a breakdown

Leadoff runner in the ninth inning.

It's a one-run game.

Machado makes the pick, throws it, but it's not in time.

So the Red Sox got something going,

and if they get him to second,

maybe he can do some grip grazing,

relay some pitches to the batter,

knock it out of the park.

So that's exactly what he does.

Bunt attempt was shown.

He steals, take the bunt off,

and now we got our vroom, vroom speed at second base.

So you've got the lefty up, the rookie.

I don't see anything there.

It's a high fastball.

I mean, I didn't see any relaying of a pitch.

High fastball, it's a ground rule double,

which means the game is tied,

and they still have a runner on second,

and they're flying.

Is that what the Red Sox do?

Are they flying there?

I would guess if it's not flying,

I'm not.

I'm not going to feel like a fool for guessing flying.

So runner on second,

they have a mound meeting,

and the Red Sox coaches tell their rookie,

they say, hey, go see coach in the dugout.

He's got some studying for you to do.

Okay, what do you got, coach?

Let me see.

And the coach says, change up.

His hand is higher, and it's bigger.

Oh, are they watching us?

Are they listening?

And look at Bogarts.

Bogarts is like, I know what you guys are talking about.

Why would you call the runner on second base over,

and show him an iPad?

He's not scouting the pitcher.

What are you guys up to?

And this is what they were looking at.

Pictures of the Padres pitcher with two different setups.

On the left, you can see the FB for fastball,

and on the right, you can see the CH for changeup.

So I went and found where these two pictures are from.

It's very timely.

It's the last time Suarez pitched when he was in Arizona.

I found them.

Here's what they actually look like.

There you go.

All right, so he's in Arizona,

and these are the grips they're looking at.

On the right is a changeup.

On the left is a fastball.

So it's very slight,

but you got to remember,

baseball players really try to do this.

This isn't so much he's tipping his pitch.

He's just letting you see inside his glove.

And if you can see the changeup,

the fingers have to wrap around the ball.

So the ball has kind of a bottom layer,

which is your fingers,

meaning your hand is going to be higher.

So you can see that his hand looks bigger.

It's higher.

There's less space between his hand

and the top of the glove than over here.

You can see more of the back of his hand on this one.

Over this one, you can't.

This is very slight.

This isn't really tipping or a tell.

Like, I think some baseball players can pick this,

and others are like,

oh, that's just kind of what?

It's hard to do it side by side.

You'd have to really see it.

Like, you can kind of see that middle finger knuckle

popping up there.

I think I'd notice that more than anything,

that, like,

the fingers are kind of popped up.

But I don't think this is a dead giveaway.

But this is what everyone wants to do.

You're on second base.

Don't get a lead.

You're on lookout.

That's what third base is telling them right now.

Like, okay.

And then all teams have different ways to pass the signal.

Girardi was just on the Yankees broadcast saying,

back in his day,

there was a team that they took their lead,

and then they took two steps back to signal it was an off speed,

or they didn't take any steps back.

So I went and I found the footage of this at bat.

And I went to Bregman to see how they were relaying signs.

There he is on second base.

And I came away with,

I don't think he was.

I don't think he could see it or figure it out.

I think when we saw Jazz do this,

he really didn't get a lead.

He was, like, on the base playing lookout.

But Anthony here,

he's not really giving himself the best angle.

And I don't see him doing anything different.

This is a fastball swing from Bregman.

Now, what Suarez did was he went to the sinker,

which is a,

it's a different grip.

So if they're sitting fastball,

it's a different fastball than they're expecting.

That was the sinker.

0-2.

Now he's going to throw a changeup,

and there's nothing different that I can tell that Anthony did to signal it.

And Bregman,

it's not like he was an auto take.

Like, he's hanging with that pitch,

almost checks his swing.

So I don't think he got a signal saying a changeup was coming.

The next pitch,

the next 1-2,

is another sinker on the outside that Bregman flicks his bat at,

stays alive.

And then we're going to go fastball.

Again,

again,

I didn't see a signal.

Pops that one up.

Who's got it?

Who's got it?

Who's got it?

Who's got it?

Arise has it.

That's the second out.

The runner stays.

Could he have tagged up there?

I don't know.

Do you risk it?

No,

you're in scoring position.

Fastball.

Swing.

This whole at bat to Trevor's story,

because I intentionally walked the guy before him,

was fastballs.

So nothing to really tip or relay or say.

But I,

again,

I don't think Anthony,

I think Anthony was like,

I can't tell the difference in that stuff.

You're on your own.

It was,

it was all fastballs anyway.

So if story's sitting fastball,

he's getting the pitch.

He wants every time doesn't connect strikes out.

But I just thought it was interesting to see the iPad in the dugout that the

footage,

the pictures from the iPad were very recent and you could hear what he says

bigger,

higher.

I don't think he actually ended up relaying the signs,

but every runner on second base is getting some,

some info.

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