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You're exactly right, a runner giving the open-hand/fastball or closed-hand/curveball signal from 2nd base is stealing signals. And I'd bet in 95% of the cases, if it were being done in that manner OR in another manner where the opposing team would not catch on, it would continue and NOT be any fastballs in the ribs. In my example that started this thread, the 3B coach was VERBALLY telling the batter what was coming. In discussing preemptive umpiring, that's when I stepped in.
Whether I agree a coach should be doing it or not is really another story, but if it continued in THAT manner things quite honestly could get ugly.
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