I am very late on this but there was a very big occurrence in the MLB that took place yesterday. For those that didn’t see it, I’m talking about the Houston Astros. The Astros have been the center of a cheating scandal and it’s very apparent that they have done. 

Backstory, Mike Fiers a formal pitcher for the ‘Stros called the Astros out for the scandal, and there hasn’t been much rest until last night. Houston was using the video board located in centerfield at Minute Maid Park to tip signs to opposing pitching. When an Astro batter would step into the box there would but loud bangs when an off-speed pitch was coming. The sign would obviously be shown on the big board in center, and the camera was pointed right on the catcher so it was in clear view. After the sign was laid, there would be three or four very apparent “bangs” when the off-speed pitch was coming and that ball would  procced to be crushed out of the park. If you can find the Youtube video on it, it’s there and me being hard of hearing can hear it without any audio manipulation. There was a very long investigation that took place inside the MLB into the scandal and they finally came to a verdict yesterday afternoon. 

Manager AJ Hinch and General Manager and Jeff Luhnow have each been suspended for an entire season, effective immediately. The report came yesterday and the article that I read from ESPN’s Jeff Passan got a statement from Houston Astro’s owner Jim Crane “Neither one of them started this, but neither one of them stopped either.” Hinch or Luhnow can not be affiliated with any MLB organization for the entire upcoming 2020 season. 

I’m glad that the MLB came down hard on this issue, there is the old saying in the MLB that you don’t break the “unwritten rule” such as bunting to break up a no-hitter just as an example. I don’t like sign-stealing but I have grown up with older values when it comes to baseball. The 2017 World Series that Houston won, is just another stain on baseball that shouldn’t be there. Hopefully after this case, and other teams see how the MLB office responded, this will be the last case of this we will see in baseball.