The Astros have been awarded the Cardinals' first two picks in this year's Draft as a result of the illegal breach of the Astros' baseball operations database by a former baseball operations employee of the Cardinals, Christopher Correa. Commissioner Rob Manfred made the ruling on Monday.
St. Louis Official Site
The illegal actions of a former Cardinals executive that put him in prison will also cost the team draft picks and a punitive fine in one of the harshest penalties enforced by Major League Baseball in recent memory.
Post-Dispatch
Major League Baseball handed down punishment Monday, effectively concluding the investigation into the hacking of the Houston Astros by former St. Louis Cardinals Scouting Director Chris Correa.
KMOV
The punishment has been handed down. Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has ruled that the St. Louis Cardinals will surrender their first two draft picks of 2017 and pay fine of $2 million to the Houston Astros for the actions of former Scouting Director Chris Correa.
STL Baseball Weekly
The owner of the Houston Astros predicted Sunday the Cardinals would be hit with “significant” penalties for a former employee’s repeated hacks into the Astros’ computer database and less than 24 hours later his expectation came true.
STL Sports Page
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