MESA, Ariz. – Kris Bryant blasted the cheating Astros when asked on his first day at spring training Saturday about the scandal over electronic sign-stealing and this week’s fallout over players’ and team officials’ “apologies.”
“What a disgrace that was,” said the National League MVP during the Cubs’ 2016 World Series championship season – one year before the Astros’ 2017 title that benefitted from a trash-can-banging system of relaying electronically stolen catcher signs.
“I was watching their apology [Friday], too,” he added. “There’s no sincerity, there’s no genuineness when it comes to it. I certainly know if I messed up big I that way I’d be the first one to let you know just how big of a messup it was.