First Blog Houston Astros Cheating scandal

The main news in sports right now is the scandal going in baseball in Houston as well as in Boston, but mostly in Houston with the Astros and Red Sox. The Houston Astros have been punished for stealing signs during the 2017 season in which they won the World Series. The Astros used cameras in centerfield to figure out what pitch was getting thrown to the batter. In the dugout the players/ coaches would bang a trash barrel to indicate which pitch was coming using this to communicate to the batter. The batter would listen to figure whether it was a fastball or off speed pitch and sit back on an off speed or swing right away for a fastball. The Houston Astros have been found guilty already and the manager, general manager, the bench coach of the 2017 team (which was the Boston Red Sox manager the past two years) have all received suspensions for more than a year. As well as three have been fired from there jobs because of the incident. This has been the biggest scandal of cheating in baseball since the steroid era. The Houston Astros organization has been punished by losing a first and second round pick in the next two years of the MLB draft, as well as being fined 5 million dollars which is the most a team can be fined in the MLB collective bargaining agreement. The organization has tried to get separate itself from anyone connected to the scandal,  but now the players are being accused of being apart of the scandal by wearing beepers underneath their jersey. Although they have been proven innocent because there has not been enough evidence, social media and major news outlets have been dragging the players involved names through the mud.


https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2871928-report-viral-twitter-videos-accelerated-mlbs-investigation-in-astros-scandal

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