Former Astros Hitting Coach Dave Hudgens Regrets Not Stopping Use of Trash Cans to Steal Signs

The Houston Astros players, coaches, and front office are all taking their turns in the line of fire as they face questions about their sign-stealing scandal.

Dave Hudgens, who was Houston's hitting coach in 2017, might be with the Toronto Blue Jays as their bench coach at this moment in time, but that doesn't mean he can escape being pelted with questions.

Hudgens claims that he was aware of the team using the fabled banging on the trash can method to relay the stolen signs to the hitters, but didn't do enough to get rid of it. He wishes that he had the fortitude to put a stop to it in hindsight.

"I regret that we didn’t do something about it," Hudgens said. "We take ownership, responsibility for it. I’m sorry we didn’t do that."

Hudgens once had a reputation as one of the finer hitting coaches in all of baseball, but it's really easy to coach guys up on how to hit more effectively when you know what is coming.

Hudgens, much like Justin Verlander, fell into the "we really should have done something to stop this" camp, which comes off as incredibly unauthentic.

Both these guys seemed to have the idea that what they were doing was wrong, but were more than happy to let the championships roll in instead.