Summary of the Red Sox report
MLB's investigation into the Boston Red Sox's sign stealing during 2018 revealed a far lesser scheme than the Houston Astros, with penalties accordingly less severe: Only a loss of a second-round pick and a replay operator banned, as @Ken_Rosenthal and @EvanDrellich reported.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) April 22, 2020
More on the Red Sox cheating
The information was only relevant when the Red Sox had a runner on 2B (which was 19.7% of plate appearances), and Watkins communicated sign sequences in a manner that indicated that he had decoded them from the in-game feed in only a small percentage of those occurrences.