Report: Intern introduced Astros to 'Codebreaker' sign-stealing program
The Houston Astros' front office laid the groundwork for the team's electronic
sign-stealing ploys via a program dubbed "Codebreaker" that was introduced by
an intern in the organization in September 2016, The Wall Street Journal
reported Friday.
根据华尔街日报周五报导，太空人队的制服组通过一个名为“ Codebreaker”的程式，为
该团队的窃取暗号策略奠定了基础，该程序于2016年9月由一名实习生引入。
According to the WSJ, the Excel-based application designed to decode opposing
catchers' signs was used throughout the 2017 season and for part of 2018 by
Astros baseball operations employees and video room staffers both at home and
on the road.
根据报导，太空人的经营员工和录像室员工在2017球季和2018部分球季使用这个基于
Excel的应用程序来解码捕手的暗号，不论是主场或是客场。
Staffers would log the catcher's signs and subsequent pitches into a
spreadsheet and "Codebreaker" would determine how the signs related to
different pitches. The information would then be communicated to the hitter
by a baserunner via an intermediary.
员工将捕手的暗号和随后的球种记录到电子表格中，而“ Codebreaker”将决定暗号与
不同球种的关系。然后该资讯将由跑垒者作为中介传达给打击者。
Astros players eventually evolved the system to include banging on a trash
can to warn hitters of the coming pitch.
最终，太空人球员改进了系统，包括敲击垃圾桶来警告打击者将要到来的球种。
Ex-Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow told MLB investigators that he remembers
the intern's PowerPoint slide about "Codebreaker," but said he thought it would
be used to legally decipher signs from previous games, according to the WSJ.
根据报导，前太空人GM Jeff Luhnow告诉MLB的调查人员，他还记得实习生说明关于
“Codebreaker”的PPT，但他以为这只是用来合法地破译先前比赛的暗号。
The former intern, Derek Vigoa, currently works as the Astros' senior manager
of team operations. Vigoa told investigators that he assumed Luhnow knew the
program would be used in live games.
前实习生Derek Vigoa目前担任太空人经营团队高级经理。Vigoa告诉调查人员，他假设
Luhnow知道该程序将用于即时比赛。
The team's director of advance information, Tom Koch-Weser, also alleges
Luhnow knew about the system. According to the WSJ, Koch-Weser told MLB that
the former GM would occasionally go to the Astros' video room during road
games and make comments like, "You guys Codebreaking?"
该团队的高级信息总监Tom Koch-Weser也指控Luhnow了解该系统。据华尔街日报报导，
Tom Koch-Weser告诉MLB，前GM偶尔会在比赛中去太空人的录像室，并发表诸如“你们在
破解暗号？”的评论。
Luhnow declined the WSJ's request for comment but, according to the paper's
reporting, denied Koch-Weser's accounts to MLB, and investigators could find
no definitive proof that Luhnow knew how "Codebreaker" was being used.
Luhnow拒绝了华尔街日报对于评论的请求，但根据该报纸的报导，他否认了Koch-Weser
向MLB的陈述，调查人员找不到确切的证据证明Luhnow知道如何使用“ Codebreaker”
Luhnow was fired by the Astros last month, shortly after MLB suspended him
for one season.
在MLB 将他禁赛一个赛季后不久，Luhnow就在上个月被太空人解雇。
心得：
用什么工具作弊其实不算什么重点，虽然能用Excel 写出这种程式挺厉害的
这篇的主要疑问是不论是主场或是客场这句，指的是不论主客都有进行事后分析还
是都有进行作弊，这两种差很多，其他球队一定也有自己的分析程式来对赛后录像进行分
析，而报导没说清楚这里的客场是不是现场进行分析?