Major League Baseball is changing things up for the 2022 season.
The league will reportedly give pitchers and catchers the option of using newly tested, anti-sign-stealing signaling devices in the upcoming 2022 regular season, according to ESPN’s Buster Olney.
PitchCom includes a pad with buttons that will be worn on a forearm sleeve of the catcher’s gloved hand to send pitch type and location to the pitcher via a listening device.
According to the report, five players per team, including the pitcher and catcher, are permitted to use the audio receivers, which are worn in the caps of pitchers and fielders and transmitted in English and Spanish over an encrypted channel. Pitchers and catchers still have the option of using the traditional pitch-calling method of the catches using his fingers to flash a combination of signs to the pitcher.
The decision to permit technology for use in on-field signal-calling comes in the wake of the Houston Astros having been punished for using a sign-stealing system during their World Series championship season in 2017.
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Social media had a lot to say about this anti-stealing device and the Astros:
