Major League Baseball has determined that the primary culprit in the Red Sox's sign-stealing operation throughout the 2018 was the team's video replay system operator.
The league is suspending the operator, J.T. Watkins, and docking the Red Sox a second-round pick in the 2020 draft. Watkins will be suspended without pay for the 2020 regular season and prohibited from serving as a replay room operator for the 2021 regular season and postseason.
"I find that unlike the Houston Astros’ 2017 conduct, in which players communicated to the batter from the dugout area in real time the precise type of pitch about to be thrown, Watkins’s conduct, by its very nature, was far more limited in scope and impact," Manfred wrote in MLB's report.