SAN DIEGO • While it prepares to offer an in-house verdict on the hacking scandal that swallowed the Cardinals a year ago, Major League Baseball remains in a holding pattern, awaiting the end of the criminal trial and, commissioner Rob Manfred said, the help of the parties involved.
Manfred described how baseball’s power to investigate the illegal breach of Houston’s database ends at the courthouse door – or, more specifically, the servers involved.
“There are limits to what any private organization can do from an investigative perspective,” Manfred said during his annual meeting with members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.