It’s a bird!
It’s a plane!
It’s… a Yankees baserunner moving his arms as if he’s about to soar!
Such has been the scene this season when the Bombers tip opponents’ pitches. The Yankees are rather skilled when it comes to picking up on pitchers’ tells, but relaying that information in a subtle manner is a different story, as the team has been caught in the perfectly legal act on multiple occasions.
“I have no idea,” a laughing Cody Bellinger told the Daily News when asked why the Yankees don’t bother to hide their pitch-tipping.
He later admitted to a small group of reporters that the Yankees are “so obvious” when they relay pitches, while “a lot of teams are discreet.”
Bellinger discussed this topic after he and Aaron Judge picked up on Toronto starter Max Scherzer ’s changeup