the following is what exists in the rulebook for 9.01(d)
(d) Each umpire has authority to disqualify any player, coach, manager, or substitute for objecting to decisions or for unsportsmanlike conduct or language, and to eject such disqualified person from the playing field. If an umpire disqualifies a player while a play is in progress, the disqualification shall not take effect until no further action is possible in that play.
NOTE: The local league has the option to adopt this rule application. The stealing and relaying of signs to alert the batter of pitch selection and/or location is unsportsmanlike behavior. If, in the judgment of the umpire, this behavior is occurring, those responsible including any player(s), coach(es), and/or manager shall be ejected from the game.
this was added for 2020:
the team manager and those responsible including any player(s) and/or coaches shall be warned after the first offense. Those responsible including any player(s), coach(es), and/or manager shall be ejected from the game for a team's subsequent offense.
Does the 2020 addition pertain to any unsportsmanlike conduct?
Because it was done from off the field.
If you aren't allowed to steal signs then why have signs? Just yell out the play and forbid the other team acting on what they heard.
Given this new rule, perhaps this umpire knew a little more about what LLI wanted done in such a situation than a bunch of armchair umpires in a message board. Just sayin’ ....
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the following is what exists in the rulebook for 9.01(d)
(d) Each umpire has authority to disqualify any player, coach, manager, or substitute for objecting to decisions or for unsportsmanlike conduct or language, and to eject such disqualified person from the playing field. If an umpire disqualifies a player while a play is in progress, the disqualification shall not take effect until no further action is possible in that play.
NOTE: The local league has the option to adopt this rule application. The stealing and relaying of signs to alert the batter of pitch selection and/or location is unsportsmanlike behavior. If, in the judgment of the umpire, this behavior is occurring, those responsible including any player(s), coach(es), and/or manager shall be ejected from the game.
this was added for 2020:
the team manager and those responsible including any player(s) and/or coaches shall be warned after the first offense. Those responsible including any player(s), coach(es), and/or manager shall be ejected from the game for a team's subsequent offense.
Does the 2020 addition pertain to any unsportsmanlike conduct?
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Rich Ives
Because it was done from off the field. If you aren't allowed to steal signs then why have signs? Just yell out the play and forbid the other team acting on what they heard.
Richvee
Given this new rule, perhaps this umpire knew a little more about what LLI wanted done in such a situation than a bunch of armchair umpires in a message board. Just sayin’ ....
WilsonFlyer
Great. We're officially giving them permission to get away with it until they get caught. Fantastic idea.
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