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ssan of ESPN wrote in February Glenn Hubbard Jersey , Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association have been discussing a litany of rule changes, including a pitch clock and a universal designated hitter.However, swift regulations on another topic have been put in place to restrict sign stealing, per Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated on Tuesday:"Major League Baseball is cracking down on high-tech sign stealing. It is banning all non-broadcast outfield cameras from foul pole to foul pole as well as tightening restrictions on in-house video, several sources familiar with the new rules told SI. Teams violating the protocols face penalties that include the loss of draft picks and international spending money."Accordingto Verducci, "there is expectation" a final document outlining the restrictions and bans will be finished within two weeks and ready for the beginning of the 2019 season.Sign-stealing isn't anything newryan Soderholm-Difatte of theSociety for American Baseball Researchoutlined a sign-stealing scheme pulled off by the 1951 New York Giants during their National League-pennant winning season Rickey Henderson Jersey , for example.But the spotlight has recently shined brightly on sign-stealing, especially over the past two seasons. PerDave Sheininof theWashington Post, the Astros were accused (and eventually cleared) of the act during the 2018 American League Championship Series.In 2017,commissioner Rob Manfred finedthe Red Sox "an undisclosed amount" after an MLB investigation revealed that the practice occurred during the regular season versus the New York Yankees.Per Verducci, the new rules and regulations to curtail the practice will be extensive and include banning in-house cameras in between the foul poles and mandating thatevery general manager (or president of baseball operations) and manager "must sign a document professing that his club is in compliance with the anti-sign stealing rules and that he knew of no 'pre-meditated plan to steal signs'."The MLB season begins on March 20 when the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics face off in Tokyo. The Orioles try to avoid a fifth straight loss as they take on the Red Sox today."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Commentary & AnalysisOrioles ProspectsOrioles Game RecapsOrioles News and RumorsCamdencastGamethreadsSaturday afternoon Orioles game thread: at Red Sox, 1:05New Catfish Hunter Jersey ,166commentsThe Orioles try to avoid a fifth straight loss as they take on the Red Sox today.EDTShareTweetShareShareSaturday afternoon Orioles game thread: at Red Sox, 1:05Brad Penner-USA TODAY SportsThe good news about the 2019 Orioles is that they only have 148 games left to play. The bad news is that 148 games is actually quite a lot of games to get through when you don’t have much of a starting rotation, bullpen, or lineup.Worse is that the Orioles are still set up where every game offers the possibility of chasing the bad kind of history. They’ve allowed a home run in each of their first 14 games, a club record, and are now just two games shy of the all-time record held by the 2009 Phillies. Chris Davis extends his own records with every hitless at-bat Rollie Fingers Jersey , with the next in his sights being hitless ABs to start a season - he’s got four to go to catch the 0-37 mark by Eugenio Velez with the Dodgers in 2011.The Orioles themselves could end up being the exact thing that the up-til-now-ailing Red Sox needed to see. That’s not a very fun realization for O’s fans. Many things about this year so far have been un-fun and more that is not fun will likely come along as the months pass. That this is the result of an intentional plan for rebuilding rather than the failure of a terrible plan for competing, like what happened last year, doesn’t make it a lot better except that this year we could all set low expectations ahead of time.This is the lineup that will try to avoid a fifth straight defeat today:Jonathan Villar - SSTrey Mancini - RFDwight Smith Jr. - LFRenato Nunez - DHRio Ruiz - 3BChris Davis - 1BHanser Alberto - 2BPedro Severino - CCedric Mullins - CFThat’s with Andrew Cashner as the starting pitcher. It seems likely that the home run allowing streak will continue with Cashner pitching in Fenway, but one thing that really is fun about baseball is even if you look at two teams and know that one is better than the other, you never know what might happen in any one game. You can know what’s most likely to happen, but you never know. Perhaps if O’s fans are lucky http://www.athleticsfanproshop.com/authentic-khris-davis-jersey , today will be one of those unknowable surprises that produces a delightful outcome, even if they do keep making history by allowing home runs.