The St. Louis Cardinals were finally hit with their punishment after their former scouting director, Chris Correa, was charged and convicted of hacking the Houston Astros. On Monday, MLB handed down the punishment that includes a $2 million fine and stripping away two draft picks from the Cardinals.
The fine and two draft picks will go over to the Astros.
MLB reaches decision on hacking scandal: #STLCards must award top two picks (Nos. 56, 75) to #Astros and pay $2M fine to HOU as well.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) January 30, 2017
More details came out on Sunday, regarding how many times and what specifically Correa did when he hacked the Astros nearly 50 times over a 2.5 year period.
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Yahoo!’s Jeff Passan thinks the punishment from MLB wasn’t harsh enough, considering Correa testified that other Cardinals’ officials knew what he was doing.
The St. Louis Cardinals make $300 million a year in revenue. A $2 million fine is 0.67% of that. It is change in their couch.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) January 30, 2017
The Cards knew. Correa admitted it in court. RT @johnborkowski7 I agree it's logical that more people knew, but is it provable? pic.twitter.com/a0Srb4DjC3
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) January 30, 2017
So, what do you think? Was the punishment fair? Too harsh? Not harsh enough?
