The Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox are the two teams investigated for cheating in the 2017 and 2018 seasons, and it sounds like they had fair warning of whistleblowers ahead of their meeting in the 2018 American League Championship Series.
ESPN’s Karl Ravech relayed a story on the “Baseball Tonight” podcast (around the 10:50 mark) about how the managers and GMs of the Astros and Red Sox — A.J. Hinch, Jeff Luhnow, Alex Cora and Dave Dombrowski — were summoned to a meeting with chief baseball officer Joe Torre ahead of the 2018 ALCS. In the meeting they were collectively warned that any cheating ran the risk of being exposed by someone who left their organization.
“At some point there’s going to be a player or players or front office person that’s going to leave your team, go to another team, and basically rat you guys out, basically tell the dirty secrets,” Ravech said of Torre’s message.
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Originally posted on Larry Brown Sports | By Grey Papke | Last updated 2/28/20
