The 2017-champion Astros? Busted. The 2018-champion Red Sox? Manager Alex Cora already has been fired.
Even newly hired Mets manager Carlos Beltran – a ringleader in the Astros’ 2017 electronic sign-stealing fiasco – is out of a job before managing a game as the fallout over one of the biggest cheating scandals in baseball history continued into Thursday.
Care to go back a little further in history – to 2016?
Not that anybody has accused the 2016 Cubs of the kind of high-tech violations that resulted in historic levels of penalties levied against the Astros by Major League Baseball – and might yet reach beyond Cora (the Astros’ bench coach in ’17) with the Red Sox.