The St. Louis Cardinals suffered through the organization’s punishment for hacking into the Astros database during this season’s MLB Draft. The effects of this punishment may or may not surface in seasons to come.
Another way of looking at this, however, is that GM Mozeliak may have been so distracted by the cacophony that he failed to make appropriate changes THIS season resulting in the team we see nightly.
Enter into the discussion a play at the plate in Monday night’s game between the media-darling Chicago Cubs and the often-forgotten San Diego Padres. In the play in question, dazzling star Anthony Rizzo (who, by the way, I think is a really good player– or rather who I thought was a really good player) was clearly thrown out at the plate but initiated contact with Padres catcher Austin Hedges.