[情報] Cardinals To Pay Two Draft Picks, $2MM

[LeOniD0728 (Leonid獅子哥)]

Major League Baseball has concluded its investigation into the Cardinals’ ill
egal accessing of the Astros’ proprietary database, ruling that St. Louis wil
l have to send two draft picks to the Astros and pay a $2MM fine to the Astros
 as punishment, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced on Mo
nday. The Cardinals will lose their top two picks, Nos. 56 and 75 overall, as
punishment. Manfred also announced that former Cardinals scouting director Chr
is Correa, who was fired and sentenced to prison time for accessing the Astros
’ database, has been placed on the “permanently ineligible” list. thus bann
ing him from baseball.

The Cardinals had already forfeited their top pick in the 2017 draft in order
to sign Dexter Fowler to a five-year contract, and they’ll now be left withou
t any selections in the top two rounds of the draft as a result of commissione
r Manfred’s ruling. (The second pick they’re forfeiting is a Competitive Bal
ance, Round B selection.) In addition to losing those two draft picks, the Car
dinals will also lost the bonus slots that are associated with those selection
s.

Via the announcement on the matter, the league’s investigation “did not esta
blish that any Cardinals’ employee other than Mr. Correa (who was the only in
dividual charged by the federal government) was responsible for the intrusions
 into the Astros’ electronic systems.” As such, there are no penalties to fu
rther Cardinals employees (either current or former). Manfred continues to sta
te that he holds the Cardinals organization “vicariously liable for [Correa’
s] misconduct,” adding that the Astros “suffered material harm as a result o
f Mr. Correa’s conduct.” Beyond the loss of proprietary knowledge that Manfr
ed terms “not amenable to precise quantification,” he adds that the Astros
“suffered substantial negative publicity and had to endure the time, expense
and distraction of both a lengthy government investigation and an MLB investig
ation.”

Over the weekend, David Barron and Jake Kaplan of the Houston Chronicle report
ed that documents which were recently unsealed by a federal judge had expedite
d the investigation and brought the commissioner’s office to the verge of a c
onclusion. Per the Chronicle duo, Correa accessed the Astros’ “Ground Contro
l” database on 48 instances over a span of two and a half years and also acce
ssed Houston GM Jeff Luhnow’s trade notes on 14 occasions. Beyond that, assis
tant U.S. attorney Michael Chu believes Correa to have been the responsible pa
rty for leaking 10 months’ worth of private trade notes to Deadspin — all of
 which became available for public consumption back in 2013.

The penalty is certainly not inconsequential for the Cardinals, but it’s alre
ady drawn mixed reviews and assuredly will continue to do so. Ben Badler of Ba
seball America, for instance, tweets that the league stripped the Red Sox of f
ive prospects and imposed a two-year ban on Boston’s ability to sign internat
ional prospects last year due to their efforts to circumvent international sig
ning restrictions by signing multiple players in package deals. Meanwhile, the
 Cardinals will not forfeit so much as a top 50 overall pick in the upcoming 2
017 draft.

Nonetheless, the Cardinals will feel the punishment in this summer’s draft. S
t. Louis already had he second-lowest overall draft bonus pool, checking in at
 $3,925,500 this year, as Baseball America’s Hudson Belinsky recently reporte
d. Now, they’ll lose pick No. 56 ($1,122,400) and No. 75 ($730,800), thereby
dropping their overall pool to $2,072,300 — far and away the lowest in the le
ague. (Cleveland’s $3,646,100 pool is the next-lowest, for context.)

And the Astros, meanwhile, stand to benefit from today’s ruling as well. Hous
ton had a $6,755,100 bonus pool that will now rise to $8,608,300 (also via Bel
insky’s figures). That’s certainly a far cry from the 2014 draft, when Houst
on had two of the top five picks (and three of the top 37) and a whopping $13,
362,200 pool. But, the bump to just over $8.6MM does give the Astros the 11th-
largest pool in the 2017 amateur draft — a notable bump up from their previou
s standing of 18th.

去年紅雀隊職員駭入太空人隊的電腦竊取選秀資料
判決結果出爐，紅雀隊必須交出今年的前兩輪選秀籤以及兩百萬美元

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推 AaronJudge: 兩輪耶@@
→ appshjkli: WOW
推 adad48362: 挺重的...
推 ylrafale: 紅鳥的第一輪籤已經因為簽下Fowler而被沒收，這裡要給的
→ ylrafale: 是第56跟75順位的籤，是原本的第二與第三輪籤
推 oopsmamamiya: 那好像籤還好
推 abc12812: 好輕的懲罰 應該讓太空人農場任意挑兩個新秀才對
推 JEFF11503: 還是很多啊…
推 csy1911: 紅鳥不知道拿多少次補償選秀簽了，少兩支簽根本不痛不癢
推 triff: 這懲罰辦法有趣
推 fan0226: 兩百萬是給聯盟嗎
推 hunterqiji: 好輕的懲罰 應該讓太空人農場任意挑十個新秀才對
推 a2156700: 直接挖角就好了
推 rat1882043: 200萬也是給太空人
推 EEERRIICC: 噗噗，這種球隊，笑了
→ EEERRIICC: 把球迷全部讓給太空人好了
推 bkm1: 應該紅鳥列農場20人保護名單後 讓太空人任選2個
→ Spartan5566: 其實也沒被判很重啊..
推 ThomasHSNU: Manfred有提沒其他Cardinals的人涉入 大概是這樣所以
→ ThomasHSNU: Cardinals罰的不是很重 反正案主已經ban from MLB了
推 mrkey: & 46 months in federal prison
推 soryuss508: 太輕了 應該要重罰款償還太空人 或是首輪選秀權給出來
推 soryuss508: 罰太輕 不是等同鼓勵未來在持續這樣犯罪嗎?
推 ylrafale: 今年的首輪選秀已經因為簽下Fowler而被沒收啦
推 JakeOdorizzi: 犯罪天堂 不意外
→ acd51874: 這個算是個案了吧，手法粗糙到沒第二人想去試XD
→ faintbreeze: 重在哪? 紅鵲常常做這種事情