According to Passan, several executives made their dissatisfaction known in a conference call at which Manfred spelled out the sanctions. In addition, Luhnow and Hinch were each suspended for the entire 2020 season, including the playoffs.The investigation revealed that Luhnow did not know about the banging scheme, though he had "some knowledge" about replay room staffers decoding signs and transmitting them to the dugout, contrary to his denials. However, he did allow it to continue through the team's run to the 2017 World Series. Anger towards the Astros from fellow MLB players grew, especially as the scandal wore on. The other day, when we posted From a battle of Big Apple aces to a showdown of superstar shortstops and beyond, here are ESPN.com's rankings for each position ahead of the 2020 season.

The only longer suspension was for Only hours after MLB announced its findings, Astros owner A day later, on January 14, 2020, the Boston Red Sox and manager Alex Cora – who was the Astros' bench coach during the 2017 season – mutually agreed to part ways as a result of his involvement in the scandal.The report and discipline did not stop additional accusations of sign stealing from being made.

We affected careers, we affected the game in some way, and looking back at it, it was just bad. Manfred harshly criticized him for this, saying that since the manager is responsible for directly supervising the players and coaches, there was "no justification for Hinch's failure to act". Plenty of teams had tanked before, but no club tanked quite like Houston did in Luhnow's first years, stripping the payroll to the bone, not even pretending to care about presenting a major league product. It's possible.What about other unknown jobs and opportunities lost because of the perception that the Astros were the standard everyone else had to try to meet?You could say the same for the other players on the '17 Astros who might not have shared in the sign stealing. The day after the original Rosenthal wrote one week after the original report that he and Drellich "also heard — and continue to hear — about possible violations by a number of other clubs. (1:06)The grumbling around the game was thick after MLB commissioner Rob Manfred rendered discipline in the The Astros are still 2017 World Series champions, a title won with cheating. "An Astros fan named Tony Adams published data that he collected from watching 58 Astros home games from the 2017 season and listening for banging noises. Here's a partial list of the scarring, and those scarred.The Astros' cheating will have the same effect on moments in recent years: The Houston championship of '17, with the comeback against the Yankees and the thrilling seven-game series against the Dodgers, will never be discussed without the qualification that the team was cheating and that the players had an illicit advantage. Houston Astros cheating scandal: 10 things we learned from MLB's nine-page investigative report The Astros were hammered by Major League Baseball on Monday for stealing signs How about Dave Roberts, the Dodgers' manager? Manfred found that while Luhnow didn't know about the players' role in the scheme, he should have made it his business to know about the players' activities, especially in light of earlier sign-stealing scandals. There is sentiment in the sport that the commissioner should've taken at least one more step to affect the Astros' ability to compete and stripped Houston's spending power in the upcoming international signing market. The loss of two draft picks in each of the next two years is mitigated by Houston's stature in the standings: The Astros will pick near the back of each round. Tim Kurkjian is concerned that the Astros' scandal is a sign that some of the new-age executives in MLB think they can outsmart the game. The criticism of his postseason decisions is piled against him largely because the team hasn't won a World Series despite repeated attempts, and it turns out the deck was stacked against him.What about Joe Girardi? The fallout of the Houston Astros cheating scandal has reached ludicrous levels with the latest bombshell claims rocking Major League Baseball. Kurkjian: Astros' scandal symptom of large problem in MLB (1:06) Tim Kurkjian is concerned that the Astros' scandal is a sign that some of the new-age …