Major League Baseball announced punishments for the Red Sox organization on Wednesday based on its investigation into illegal sign-stealing during the 2018 season. It almost seems farcical and I really don’t want to comment on it, but it’s baseball and news is scarce. It looks like a video technician was the mastermind and it really seems like Rob Manfred spent the bulk of the probe trying to find the least-likely scapegoat just to have someone to hang out to dry.
Manfred issued the following punishments:
-Watkins is suspended without pay for 2020 and will be prohibited from serving as a replay room operator through 2021.