Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Rob Manfred defended the decision not t...
- Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred defended the decision not to punish individual Houston Astros players over a 2017 sign-stealing scandal on Sunday, saying it was clear they had already “paid a price”.
MLB last month suspended Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch for the 2020 season while stripping the organization of four draft picks and levying a $5 million fine.Manfred, in an interview with ESPN, said: “I understand people’s desire to have the players pay a price for what went on here.
“Having said that, the desire to have actual discipline imposed on them, I understand it and in a perfect world it would have happened.”At the outset, it involved employees in the Astros’ video replay review room using a live game feed from the centerfield camera to attempt to decode and transmit opposing teams’ pitch sign sequences.
The decision not to strip the Astros of their 2017 World Series title has also drawn widespread criticism.He added that any disciplinary measures handed out to the players would likely have prompted grievances from the Major League Baseball Players Association.
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