Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Mafred fined the St. Louis Cardinals $2 million on Monday and stripped the club of their top two picks in the 2017 Draft as penalty for their hacking of the Houston Astros’ computer system.
In addition, the hacking scandal has resulted in former Cardinals scouting director Christopher Correa on the permanently ineligible list. Manfred explained in the issued statement that no one other than Correa was found responsible for the illegal breach of the Astros’ database.
Separate investigations by the MLB, the Cardinals, the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Department of Justice determined that Correa illegally accessed the Astros’ information multiple times from 2013-14.