The Houston Astros’ run to the World Series title in 2017 is still tainted in the eyes of many fans.

This week we learned how polarizing this topic is for some of the key players involved.

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Astros hitters used an illegal system to steal opponents’ signs in real time during games in 2017 and 2018, as revealed in a report from The Athletic and more detailed in an investigation into Major League Baseball. Players and staff used a central camera to capture signs from opposing catchers, transmitting them to hitters via a series of loud hits on a trash can.

Six years later, New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman is still bitter after losing to the Astros in the 2017 American League Championship Series.

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In an interview with High Heat’s Christopher Russo on MLB On Wednesday, Cashman unhesitatingly launched into a tangent about the misdeeds of the 2017 Astros.

“I hate the 15-year thing,” Cashman said of the length of time between Yankees appearances in the World Series, “because it completely forgets and overlooks the fact that another organization cheated us when we were at the end if you knew what it was going on, I don’t think they would move forward during that time, I think we would have moved forward.

“I hate this 15-year-old thing because I don’t think it’s an accurate reflection of history.”

Retired major league outfielder Josh Reddick, a member of the Astros’ 2017 and 2018 teams, didn’t take Cashman’s comments into account.

“Hey Brian,” Reddick asked rhetorically on his Twitter/X account, “why did your team score less than 5 points at Minute Maid but score all those points in New York?”

The implication of Reddick’s comment is clear.

The Yankees scored a combined three runs in four games in Houston during the 2017 ALCS. They scored 19 runs in three games at Yankee Stadium during the same series. For what? Among Astros fans, it’s practically canon that the Yankees had their own sign-stealing system that they used in their home park.

The Yankees were fined $100,000 by commissioner Rob Manfred for using their phones to relay information on opposing teams’ backboards during the 2015 season. and part of 2016. The fine was disclosed in a September 14, 2017 letter from Manfred to Cashman that was scheduled to be unsealed in U.S. District Court in New York in 2022.

Although no scheme has ever been uncovered involving the 2017 Yankees, Reddick isn’t the only one fanning the flames of suspicion.

“Beyond crap,” Astros podcaster Walt Penberthy said of Cashman’s comments. “And while he’s at it, he can explain their own sign-stealing scheme.”

Reddick wasn’t done pointing fingers.

When a Twitter user/X responded to his original post asking him to explain how “all the other teams” cheated, Reddick replied, “No, I’m not a snitch.”

The same user pointed out that a tip from former Astros pitcher Mike Fiers led to the original report in The Athletic implicating the team for illegal sign stealing — a tip anonymously corroborated by other teammates of ‘Astros. Reddick then said Fiers “was a teammate before he even blew the whistle.”

Such exchanges between athletes and fans generally do not take place in public. Without details, fans are left to speculate about the substance of Reddick’s comments.

Still, it’s further evidence of how deep the feelings are over what happened in the 2017 playoff dugouts, and how difficult it is for leaders on both sides to simply “move on.” something else.”

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