Pitcher taking signals.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Hold on. Perhaps you've forgotten the original post.

If Steve is referring to my posts, we stopped discussing the OP a long time ago.

I have been discussing ONLY a situation in which F1 is straddling the rubber leaning in to take signs as if he were to pitch, or at least come set. With a runner on, this an extemely deceptive move as it could easily appear to the runner that F1 is in contact.

Let me point out, that I have never seen this, and I have never called a balk for an F1 taking signs off the rubber.

However, I am not yet conviced that the move I describe is legal deception.