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Feb 7 2020 Pages 1-16.Indd Collegiate Baseball The Voice Of Amateur Baseball Started In 1958 At The Request Of Our Nation’s Baseball Coaches Vol. 63, No. 3 Friday, Feb. 7, 2020 $4.00 Greatest Pitch Picker In History Tells All Nobody in college or pro third MLB manager to lose his job after he was implicated in the sign-stealing scandal. baseball history was better at Baseball has had a storied history with sign discovering what pitches were stealing, and the greatest of all time was a coming than Rob Klein as he gentleman named Rob Klein. He was a brilliant assistant for 22 years with explains how he did it. Coach Mike Gillespie (three years at College of The Canyons and then 19 more at the University By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR. of Southern California). Editor/Collegiate Baseball Let’s get one thing straight off the bat. He did everything legally and never used live CTON, Calif. — The biggest story in video feeds with a monitor to pick pitches. baseball centers around the illegal sign Studying Klein at work in the first base Astealing scandal involving the Houston coach’s box was like watching Picasso paint a Astros in 2017. masterpiece. One or more players watched the live feed of He began games studying every subtle the centerfield camera on a monitor, and after movement of the pitcher. decoding the catcher’s signs, a player would bang He watched if the wrist was cocked differently a nearby trash can with a bat to communicate the on pitches or if the ball was put deeper in the upcoming pitch type to Houston hitters. glove for certain pitches or the glove was turned Major League Baseball handed out 1-year slightly different for one pitch compared to suspensions for Astros’ manager A.J. Hinch and another. He even studied the forearms of pitchers GM Jeff Luhnow. to see if muscles tensed up on certain pitches The organization was fined $5 million and compared to others. stripped of first and second-round draft picks Klein had amazing perception to pick up on in 2020 and 2021. even the slightest differences from one pitch to The duo was then fired by Astros Owner another. Jim Crane. If the catcher or infielders were tipping Red Sox Coach Alex Cora, a former Astros’ pitches, he picked up on that as well. bench coach during 2017, was then fired by the When he was certain of pitches coming, he Red Sox. Former USC assistant Rob Klein had amazing system. Mets’ Manager Carlos Beltran became the See TEAMS RARELY STOPPED, Page 2 Comeback Player Of The Year In 2019 After Nearly Dying, Engel Puts Up Huge Numbers Hits .337 with 21 doubles, a week and realized that he had a great opportunity in the coming days to go hiking. 12 homers, 5 triples, 61 RBI His job that summer was being an umpire and steals 12 of 13 bases in beside his playing duties. 54 games last season. He drove to Fort Collins and worked several At the time, I games in the morning and afternoon. When Engel finished, he got dinner and drove to Estes “didn’t realize it By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR. Park which was 30 minutes away. Editor/Collegiate Baseball “I got into Estes Park and took my time but I had a broken surveying the area. There was a full moon out skull, broken neck PRINGFIELD, Mo. — If college so you could see quite a bit of the area. baseball had a Comeback Player of “I parked on the side of the road at about 9 with my fifth SThe Year, Drury University RF Clay p.m., got out and hiked up the mountain which Engel would have been a landslide winner was a little more than a mile up. It was a nice, vertebra (middle last season. upward climb but not too difficult.” He hit .337 with 21 doubles, 12 homers, 5 Engel said he didn’t hike with anybody else of neck) fractured triples, 61 RBI and stole 12 of 13 bases in 54 and never left a message with his host family along with a large, games. that he was going to hike in Estes Park that Those are incredible numbers when you evening and would be there the next day. deep gash along consider he nearly died two years prior. “I had camping gear on my back which Engel was lucky to be alive after suffering included food, water and a hammock to sleep the outside of my a skull fracture, fractured vertebra and leg in. I didn’t wear a head lamp on my forehead left thigh about 12 injuries which required skin grafts during since there was a full moon that evening. It was a serious hiking accident in the summer of night time, but the area was lit up enough for inches long. It was 2017. me to see where I was going. He had just finished his freshman season “I have done a lot of hiking in the past in sheared open. with the Panthers and was preparing to play Springfield, Mo. and also in northern Arkansas. summer ball for the Denver Generals of the But I had never hiked in the Rocky Mountains — Clay Engel Mile High Collegiate Baseball League. before. Engel, who enjoyed hiking back home in Springfield, Mo., was in Denver for about See ENGEL NEARLY DIES, Page 8 Inside Collegiate Baseball ” Web Site: www.baseballnews.com How To Stay Away From Flu Special Fund Raising Project Gary Ward’s Hitting Thoughts Physician explains what steps Barbe High’s Glenn Cecchini Fascinating issues are brought must be taken so entire teams takes on colossal task of bringing forward from this Hall of Fame don’t come down with it/Page 4 in $411,200 this season/Page 10 master teacher of hitting/Page 13 Page 2 Collegiate Baseball Friday, Feb. 7, 2020 Teams Rarely Stopped Rob Collegiate Baseball The Voice Of Klein’s Pitch Picking Ability Amateur Baseball Continued From Page 1 to throw. “I was able to break touch systems flashed hand signals to the USC fairly easily through observation.” Collegiate Baseball (ISSN 0530-9751) is published twice a month bench. Then a Trojan player would Klein said that other Pac-12 January-May and once in June, July, September and October relay pitches verbally to batters. teams routinely stole signs during (14 total issues) by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, Inc., 2515 He coached over 1,200 games in his time at USC. N. Stone Ave., Tucson, AZ 85705. Periodicals postage paid at Tucson, AZ. his career, and undoubtedly 50-60 “A.J. Hinch is a Stanford product, percent of opposing pitchers were and they stole pitches like crazy in picked in his lifetime which gave our league,” said Klein. Postmaster: Send address changes to: hitters thousands of pitches to hit “I learned that schools in our Collegiate Baseball that they knew were coming. conference worked as hard, if not P.O. Box 50566 Tucson, AZ 85703 Klein’s ability to pick pitches harder, at stealing pitches than was fitting since he also served we did by talking to opposing Overnight Mail: 2515 N. 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Other Multiple Subscription Offers: Please inquire with sub- miles. “Some were even roommates scription department at (520) 623-4530. This was all after working a full who lived with host families. They shift with the Sheriff’s Department have a lot of time to talk. During on many of those days. DETECTIVE ROB KLEIN batting practice, one of our players Directory For the first time in any So they have every right to steal might divulge that his first base publication, Klein is sharing his pitches if they can. coach (Rob Klein) had all of your Area Code (520) secrets of picking pitches with “If the middle infielder from the signs in a particular game during Publisher: Lou Pavlovich, Jr. (Call 623-4530) Collegiate Baseball in this exclusive opposing team has his hand behind the spring season. 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