Since former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa first agreed to a plea bargain and acknowledged hacking the computer system of the Houston Astros, many evaluators with other teams have drawn a comparison between the Cardinals and a college football program guilty of major violations.
Even if the club maintains Correa was the only person in the organization who had knowledge of the cyber invasion of the Astros' information -- and a lot of baseball officials would believe in Santa Claus before they ever believe that -- there are questions of institutional control and compliance, and how much the Cardinals' organization competitively benefited from Correa's law-breaking.