The Astros receive two draft picks and $2 million from the Cardinals to compensate Houston for the computer hacking by a Cardinals employee:
Houston will receive the Cardinals’ top two Draft selections — Nos. 56 and 75 — in the 2017 Draft, which is the most severe penalty of its kind imposed on an organization. The Commissioner’s decision to have the Cardinals pay reparations to the Astros was because he determined that Houston suffered material harm as a result of Correa’s actions.
The Cardinals also are required to pay $2 million to the Astros within the next 30 days. The amount is substantially higher than the damage calculation relied on by the federal government in its case against Correa, who is serving a 46-month prison sentence for unlawfully accessing another company’s information. As part of Manfred’s ruling, Correa was placed on the permanently ineligible list.
Very good. The Cardinals are lucky in a way they are not losing a high draft pick, but for a team that is very good at recognizing and developing talent, they are going to have a bit of a hole in their system for one year. It’s a bonanza for Houston, which will have at least four picks in the top 100.
This sends a very clear signal to clubs that hacking won’t be tolerated.
I hope the two players chosen with the two forfeited picks make the majors together so we can call them the Hack Brothers.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2kNtEaL
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