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Wilton Jackson

Yankees Letter Reveals Past Fine for Sign-Stealing Methods

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The Yankees were once fined $100,000 for improper use of a dugout phone during the 2015 and part of the ’16 seasons, according to SNY, who obtained the infamous “Yankees Letter.”

On Tuesday, SNY exclusively obtained the letter regarding sign-stealing allegations from a 2017 investigation involving the Yankees and the Red Sox. According to the report, the Yankees used the video replay room to translate sequences and phone them to the dugout. Those signs were then passed to second base runners, who would signal the decoded messages to batters. 

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