Well before the focus of the 2020 Major League Baseball season centered around what type of year would be had due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the talk was squarely on the Houston Astros and their cheating scandal en route to winning the 2017 World Series.
That of course came at the expense of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who returned to the Fall Classic the following year, only to be defeated by a Boston Red Sox team that also was the subject of an MLB investigation over alleged impropriety.
Much of that is due to a tie the Astros and Red Sox shared in Alex Cora.