Ep 5: The Storm

The revelation of the Astros’ trash can-banging, sign-stealing
scheme ignited a firestorm. Players emerged to say that they’d
known the Astros had been up to something – like Danny Farquhar, a
former White Sox reliever who’d been the first to detect
suspiciously-timed sounds from Houston’s dugout. But the scandal
really accelerated on the internet, where amateur sleuths like Tony
Adams scoured video evidence to figure out what exactly the Astros
had done. Adams’s work allowed statisticians to analyze the impact
of the Astros’ scheme – and to arrive at some surprising
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