Yankees: YES producer buries cheating allegations against NYY

For some odd reason, there are people out there trying to soften the blow on the Houston Astros for their role in the widespread sign-stealing scandal that was, by definition, cheating.

But when you’re trying to simply nitpick stats for the sole purpose of making a specific party look bad, it’s misleading.

The fact of the matter is no team cheated as in-depth and widespread as the Astros.

The Yankees also had a lopsided slash line, but they had 50 fewer at-bats at home compared to the road since they were a wild card team.

Others cutting and splicing stats for other teams to try and prove a point are, at this point, nothing but trolls trying to get a rise out of fans on social media.

However, it’s abundantly clear the Astros took it too far, and we’re not going to let them off the hook for it.

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