Major League Baseball has launched an investigation into possible illegal sign-stealing by the Boston Red Sox in 2018 that commissioner Rob Manfred promised will follow the template of the one into allegations against the Houston Astros in 2017 and 2018. Manfred characterized the Houston investigation last month as “probably the most thorough investigation that the commissioner’s office has ever undertaken.”
“We’re going to investigate the Red Sox allegations with the same thoroughness and vigor that we did Houston,” Manfred told SI Tuesday.
Like Houston, Boston faces severe discipline because the activities in question occurred after two warnings by MLB that defined the illegal use of technology: one in September 2017 and another, more tightly-worded regulation in March 2018.