Maybe guys like Springer, Altuve, Correa, and Bregman will turn out to be frauds, or more likely Reddick and Brantley will drop off due to age and lack of help, but you'd think that these guys have enough talent to still be a terrific team without the cheating. Do people think the stuff they do with spin rates and movement in their scouting and work with pitchers is all a fraud? I mean Keuchel and even Fiers were good after they left, so there has to be something to their methods. That makes the sign stealing using equipment all the harder to understand. It's the extra 2%, but it is through insider trading and Milken / Boesky methods rather than being a better quant.