It doesn’t seem like the sign-stealing scandal involving the Houston Astros is going away anytime soon — and it’s getting almost as hard to determine when this saga began as to guess when it will end.
Actually, “scandal” might be a stretch since Rob Manfred hasn’t had to do his Kenesaw Mountain Landis imitation as commissioner, but you get the idea this mess isn’t going to end anytime soon. It is starting to look like former Astros manager A.J. Hinch, the only one who has accepted full responsibility, might be the least involved of the four people (thus far) who have lost their jobs.
In his interview with Sports Illustrated‘s Tom Verducci that aired on MLB Network, Hinch owned up as manager for responsibility for actions of his players, but disavowed knowledge of how the information was obtained or where it came from. In the aftermath of a story in the Wall Street Journal, it appears that Carlos Beltran, then a player and now the ex-manager of the New York Mets, could take the biggest hit.
