Tag: Josh Reddick

Dodgers organist plays the perfect song to troll former Astro Josh Reddick over sign stealing

Perfect.

Just because Josh Reddick is no longer a member of the Astros does NOT mean fans and opposing teams have forgotten he was on the Houston team that was determined to have stolen signs.

Reddick is now a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks, who faced the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday night. He got quite a greeting from Dodgers fans, but it was the organist who had the last laugh: he played The Sign by Ace of Base as Reddick stepped in to take an at-bat in the fourth inning.

Bravo. That’s perfect. The organist, Dieter Ruehle, has used his instrument to pay tribute and troll others.

Well played.

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Josh Reddick failed miserably at responding to an Astros Twitter heckler

Oops.

Just because there aren’t crowds at actual stadiums during the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t mean the Houston Astros aren’t hearing it from baseball fans on social media.

Astros slugger Josh Reddick posted a tweet on Monday about there being two registers open at Wal-Mart during this time of social distancing (he followed up and said he wasn’t complaining, just joking).

When someone followed up and called him a “cheater,” Reddick responded by simply posting a photo of his 2017 World Series ring, which would have been a pretty great comeback … except that 2017 is the year the team was stealing signs.

You can guess how everyone else responded:

Oops.

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Astros OF Josh Reddick says fans have threatened his kids

Josh Reddick opens up about receiving death threats over the Astros’ cheating scandal.

The Houston Astros have become enemies of the entire baseball world after their sign stealing scheme used during the organization’s 2017 World Series season was uncovered, and while some players have warned that Astros may face retaliation in the upcoming season, some angry fans are unsurprisingly crossing the line and sending threats to players involved in the scandal.

Athletics pitcher Mike Fiers, who acted as a whistleblower and provided details about the scheme to The Athletic in November, said this week that he’s received death threats. According to Astros outfielder Josh Reddick, who won a ring with the team in 2017, said Friday that he and other Astros players have received threats as well, and that he’s worried about his family traveling with him throughout the season.

Via ESPN:

“You just see the first things in your suggested box and it just says, ‘I will kill your family. I will kill your kids. Blah blah blah. It’s depressing to read because it’s over a game of baseball. It’s not worth that kind of drastic measure.”

Earlier this month, Carlos Correa said that Reddick was one of the players who did not want to hear a trash can bang to indicate pitches during the 2017 season, and that Reddick would be mad if he heard it during his at-bats. According to a comprehensive study of game footage completed by a fan, a total of 28 bangs could be heard during Reddick’s home at-bats over the course of the season.

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Josh Reddick says the Astros’ plan is to ‘shut everybody up’ by winning

Good luck with that.

The Houston Astros are well aware that seemingly the rest of their big-league counterparts and opposing fans hate them. The Astros, of course, were caught cheating since at least their 2017 World Series season, and the players escaped the scandal without facing any sort of punishment.

The most the Astros had to do was issue some emotionless, pre-written apologies at the open of spring training. They had MLB commissioner Rob Manfred essentially protecting the players from retribution. There wasn’t any real remorse from the Astros players, and, now, we’re at the stage where the Astros are going to use everybody being mad at them for cheating as motivational fuel this season.

At least that’s how Josh Reddick plans to approach things this season. He told the Washington Post on Wednesday that Houston will “shut everybody up” by winning.

“At some point, you have to move on and not give a (expletive). We’re going to go out there and win and shut everybody up.”

Those comments won’t go over well with other players … at all.

Obviously, players and fans would be more prepared to “move on” if the Astros had faced any real punishment. They cheated, were allowed to keep their championship, didn’t get punished and basically apologized for getting caught — not for what they actually did.

That’s why the Astros could challenge the hit-by-pitch record, and that’s why nobody is moving on from this scandal anytime soon.

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