Before the season, Major League Baseball decreed that third base coaches will no-seriously-please-comply-now have to stay inside their coaching box when the pitcher is getting ready to deliver. The cited reason was safety, but apparently it was known around the game that coaches had been taking liberties with their positioning in part so that they could get particular views at the pitcher. Pitch tipping, grips, etc. The coaches were seeing what they could see, and then relaying that information – either in real time, or between innings, or between games for study purposes – to their batters.
In other words, it has long been the case that coaches, like players, are out there trying to pick up whatever edge they can within the rules of the game. Sign-stealing with electronic surveillance devices? Clearly illegal. Using your eyeballs and your brain? All fair game.
Not so, according to the Diamondbacks, however.
You might’ve seen this moment watching the game and wondered what Cubs bench coach Ryan Flaherty was so riled up about:
"No, no no…No. F*** you! F*** you!" – Ryan Flaherty pic.twitter.com/KF6DjmKAo2
— Brendan Miller (@brendan_cubs) August 25, 2026More of the exchange:
Diamondbacks and Cubs dugouts exchanging wordspic.twitter.com/Pcn2eMpv38
— Underdog MLB (@UnderdogMLB) August 25, 2026OK, so what was going on? Diamondbacks starter Merrill Kelly explained after the game:
POSTGAME: #Dbacks pitcher Merrill Kelly says they thought #Cubs third-base coach was relaying signs and believes that part of the game should stay between the players. "I think it's a little BS when it comes from a coach."(video courtesy t.co/Zd1ZFEYu7y) pic.twitter.com/gZTJJlIxdF
— Cameron Cox (@CamCox12) August 25, 2026I can understand the distinction Kelly is trying to draw (players can look for pitch-tipping and grip signals, but only players), but it just doesn’t hold up when you think about it for a few seconds. Quintin Berry – like all the coaches and personnel – has a duty to help his hitters succeed. It’s literally his job. If he’s operating within the rules and he sees something the opposing pitcher is doing to give up when he’s about to throw a changeup, why on EARTH would you expect him to just eat that information? Would you? Would your coaches? Give me a break. It’s nonsense.
To Kelly’s credit, he owned up to the fact that if he’s giving something away, it’s up to him to figure it out, because other teams will be on it, too. We’ve learned over the last two years just how good teams are at figuring out pitch-tips (and how tight their lips are about ever acknowledging it on either side), and maybe that’s why he’s been struggling so badly this year (his 5.35 ERA and 5.69 FIP are, by far, the worst of his career).
Speaking of which, here’s a fun thing to wonder about, but which we’ll never know for sure: any chance Quintin Berry is like a stud pitch-tip-decipherer? And that’s part of the reason Craig Counsell wanted to be sure to bring him over from the Brewers? And why he posted him up at third base? How much you wanna bet that’s secretly a huge part of how smart organizations evaluate their base coaches?
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