Gio has no problem if the Yankees had gotten the signs of the Blue Jays or noticed Jay Jackson tipping his pitches. That kind of in-game sign-stealing has always been an acceptable part of baseball, as long as no technology was involved.
But he isn’t buying Aaron Judge’s explanation of his glancing towards the Yankee dugout for a second.
“I’m not gonna sit here and say I think Aaron Judge is a cheater,” Gio said. “I just, I am fully convinced that the excuse and explanation that he gave after the game was BS, and he was trying to get some sort of edge and information.
“Do I think they Yankees have their own digital guy or tech guy…and tapped into the PitchCom of the Blue Jays and were able to get their signs? No. but whether it was tipping pitches or where the catcher was set up, there was information being relayed to Aaron Judge.”
After examining the timing of Judge’s controversial glances during his eighth inning at-bat, which resulted in a mammoth home run, Gio felt it was clear that he wasn’t glaring at his teammates to stop chirping at the umpires, as Judge said he was doing.
“It wasn’t just the explanation after the game, which you could tell he was making something up off the top of his head - you just know, you can read the body language, he was just making all that up - but his excuse was the team was still chirping after Aaron Boone got thrown out, and he was annoyed they were chirping during the at-bat,” Gio said. “Let me ask you this: at that very moment he looks over, he did it the same time in that at-bat, which was about a second and a half before the pitch was thrown. Both times that he was caught on camera doing it.
“In between pitches, where normally, a dugout is screaming at an umpire because it’s after a call they don’t like…Aaron Judge is not looking back at the dugout, he’s not gesturing towards the dugout. He’s doing it at that exact moment before the pitch is coming, multiple times.”
But, again, even if Gio doesn’t buy Judge’s explanation, he doesn’t see any problem with cracking Toronto’s code.
‘I’m not saying what the Yankees were doing was illegal,” Gio said. “I’m just saying what he said after the game was a straight-up lie…and good for him, by the way, if they did pick up on it.”
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