technologia: Houston Astros sign stealing scandal

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The 2017 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2017 season. The 113th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the American League (AL) champion Houston Astros. The series was played between October 24 and November 1. The Astros defeated the Dodgers, four games to three, to win their first World Series in franchise history, also becoming the first team from Texas to do so. They became the second team in postseason history to win two Game 7s in one postseason, after the 1985 Kansas City Royals. It was the first time since 2001–2002 when two consecutive World Series…

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The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston. The Astros compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West Division. They are one of two major league clubs based in Texas; the Texas Rangers belong to the same division. They play their home games at Daikin Park. Established as the Houston Colt .45s, the Astros entered the National League as an expansion team in 1962 along with the New York Mets. The current name, short for the Astronauts, was adopted three years later at the suggestion of astronaut Alan Shepard, when they moved into the Astrodome, the world's first multi-purpose, domed sports stadium. The Astros moved t…

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Major League Missteps: How MLB Mishandled the Astros Cheating Scandal. Major League Baseball (MLB) has been criticized for its handling of the Astros’ cheating scandal. Researchers used a case study method to test whether Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT) should be expanded to include collaborative brand attack (CBA) as a crisis type. Researchers used traditional and extended SCCT to analyze MLB’s crisis response to determine which version fit best. Data were triangulated from sports news sources, MLB’s official statement and Twitter account, and social media influencer and stakeholder posts. Researchers asked which SCCT response MLB used and whether it was effective with stake…

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Finding Value in NFL Draft Picks. This paper analyzes the salaries and performance of the 1176 NFL draft picks in the first three rounds from 2005-2016 during their rookie contracts. We employ a simple metric, average cost per AV, which calculates a player’s compensation divided their performance, Approximate Value (AV). Here, we find that 2nd and 3rd round draft picks are a significantly better value than 1st round picks over the sample period and the overall cost per AV significantly decreases with each increasing pick. When analyzed more closely, the largest decrease in value is found in the top 16 picks of the first round. Finally, we find that the teams choosing the best value draft pi…

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Finding Value in NFL Draft Picks. This paper analyzes the salaries and performance of the 636 NFL draft picks in the first two round from 2006-2015 during their rookie contracts. We employ a simple metric, average cost per AV, which calculates a player’s salary divided their performance, Approximate Value (AV). Here, we find that 2nd round draft picks are a significantly better value than 1st round picks over the sample period and the cost per AV decreases by approximately $8,000 with each increasing pick. Additionally, we find that the five teams choosing the best value draft picks post a significantly larger winning percentage over the sample period than the five teams with the worst valu…

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Kevin Forrest Cash (born December 6, 1977) is an American professional baseball manager and former player who is the manager of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). Previously, Cash played catcher in MLB for the Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Houston Astros. As a player, Cash was listed at 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) and 200 pounds (91 kg); he batted and threw right-handed. He was the bullpen coach for the Cleveland Indians before being hired as the Rays' manager in December 2014. Cash was the American League Manager of the Year in 2020 and 2021, the first AL manager to win the award consecutively. He entered the 2024 season as the…

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The 2020 Houston Astros season was the 59th season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in Houston, Texas, their 56th as the Astros, eighth in both the American League (AL) and AL West division, and 21st at Minute Maid Park. The team entered the season having won a franchise regular season-record 107 games, as both the defending champions of the American League and of the AL West, the runners-up of the 2019 World Series, with three consecutive 100-win regular seasons, and entrants into three consecutive American League Championship Series (ALCS); both of the latter two achievements had been unprecedented in franchise history. The 2020 season was the first for both Dusty Baker as th…

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The 2018 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2018 season. The winners of the Division Series would move on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series. In the American League, the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians made their third straight appearances, the Houston Astros and New York Yankees made their second straight appearances, and the Oakland Athletics made their fourth appearance in the past seven years. This postseason was notable for being the first in which the American League had three teams that won at least 100 games or more in the regular season. In the Nat…

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Johnnie B "Dusty" Baker Jr. (born June 15, 1949) is an American former professional baseball outfielder and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for 19 seasons, most notably with the Los Angeles Dodgers. During his Dodgers tenure, he was a two-time All-Star, won two Silver Slugger Awards and a Gold Glove Award, and became the first NLCS MVP, which he received for his performance during the 1977 National League Championship Series. He also made three World Series appearances and was a member of the 1981 World Series championship team. Outside of the Dodgers, Baker played for the Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, and Oakland Athletics. After retiring as a player, Baker…

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Brady James Aiken (born August 16, 1996) is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current sports agent. Aiken was drafted by Major League Baseball's Houston Astros with the first overall pick of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign with the team. He enrolled at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida as a postgraduate student. The Cleveland Indians selected him 17th overall in the 2015 MLB draft, and released him in 2021. He is one of only three players to be drafted first overall in the Major League Baseball draft and never play in the major leagues, along with Steve Chilcott and Brien Taylor.

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The 2025 Houston Astros season was the 64th season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located in Houston, Texas, their 61st as the Astros, 13th in both the American League (AL) and AL West division, and 26th at Daikin Park, with this being the first season under the stadium's new name after formerly being named "Minute Maid Park". They entered the season as four-time defending AL West champions with an 88–73 record, and entrants into eight consecutive postseasons, both streaks franchise records, and the second-longest active postseason streak in MLB. Former relief pitcher Billy Wagner, who spent the majority of his playing career with the Astros, was elected as one of the five ho…

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The 2017 Houston Astros season was the 56th season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located in Houston, Texas, their 53rd as the Astros, fifth in both the American League (AL) and AL West division, and 18th at Minute Maid Park. They entered the season as having posted an 84–78 record, in third place and 11 games behind the division-champion Texas Rangers. Dallas Keuchel made his third consecutive Opening Day start on April 3 for Houston, who hosted the Seattle Mariners and won, 3–0. On June 11, Nori Aoki recorded his 2,000th hit combined in MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). The Astros' first-round draft pick in the amateur draft was pitcher J. B. Bukauskas; they also…