At Grantland, Jonah Keri takes a thorough look at the allegations that the Blue Jays have been stealing signs with the help of a mysterious Man in White in the Rogers Centre center field seats.

I planned to write something with similar themes on the same topic, but Keri does a better job than I would have anyway, so check that out. The crux of it:

1) There’s not much evidence the Blue Jays benefited from sign stealing.
2) Every team tries to steal signs, as they should. It’s not against the rules, and players are going to do everything they can do gain competitive advantages.
3) There’s just no way you can chalk up Jose Bautista’s improvement to sign-stealing because lots of players have presumably enjoyed stolen signs before and very, very few — including all the other Blue Jays — have improved as rapidly as Bautista has.
4) I really hated that movie Signs.