Major League Baseball has been embroiled in a whirlwind of a week since announcing their findings and penalties from an investigation into the Houston Astros. MLB determined the Astros electronically stole signs during the 2017 season, which of course ended with a World Series win for the franchise.
The Astros were fined the maximum $5 million, general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch were suspended through this year’s World Series, and the organization was stripped of first- and second-round picks in the 2020 and 2021 MLB Drafts. Astros owner Jim Crane subsequently fired Luhnow and Hinch.
The domino effect extended to Alex Cora, who was bench coach with Astros in 2017 and implicated as a key mastermind in their cheating.