Allen Kee / ESPN Images(NEW YORK) — Major League Baseball has ordered the St. Louis Cardinals to pay $2 million to the Houston Astros and to give the team their top two draft picks this year.
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred made the announcement on Monday after an investigation was completed into the hacking of the Astros’ baseball operations database in 2013 and 2014. Last year, former Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison because of the breach, and ordered to pay the Astros $279,038.65.
Manfred said Correa is now placed on the “permanently ineligible list.”
“We respect the Commissioner’s decision and appreciate that there is now a final resolution to this matter,” Cardinals chairman and CEO William O. DeWitt Jr. said in a statement according to ESPN.
“Commissioner Manfred’s findings are fully consistent with our own investigation’s conclusion that this activity was isolated to a single individual.”
The Astros said in a statement the ruling sent “a clear message of the severity of these actions,” according to ESPN.
“Our staff has invested a great deal of time in support of the government, legal and league investigations and are pleased to have closure on this issue,” the statement said.
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