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With Major League Baseball finishing up its investigation of the Astros and an announcement coming as soon as next week, Carlos Beltran appears more likely than not to avoid hard discipline and begin his new job as Mets manager without any hiccups.
Discipline, in the form of suspensions, appears quite possible for the leaders of the 2017 Astros championship club, against whom strong evidence has surfaced that they illegally stole opponents’ signs via electronic means. Houston president of baseball operations Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch rank as the most obvious candidates to be sidelined, and Alex Cora, Hinch’s bench coach that season who left afterward to manage the Red Sox, also appears in danger; furthermore, MLB announced on Tuesday that it would look into new charges that Cora’s champion 2018 Red Sox illegally stole signs.