--Loss of 2020 2nd round pick
--Ban of replay operator JT Watkins for 2 years
--Ban of Alex Cora through 2020 playoffs, but not for anything he did in Boston
--Ban of replay operator JT Watkins for 2 years
--Ban of Alex Cora through 2020 playoffs, but not for anything he did in Boston
View: https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1253033743444586496Major League Baseball’s ruling on the Boston Red Sox’s illegal sign stealing in 2018 determined the primary culprit was not the front office, manager Alex Cora or the players, but the team’s video replay system operator.
The league, in findings that will be released Wednesday afternoon, suspended the operator, J.T. Watkins, and docked the Red Sox a second-round pick in the 2020 draft. It also suspended Cora through the conclusion of the 2020 postseason, but only for his conduct as Astros bench coach in 2017, not as Red Sox manager in ’18, when the team won 108 games and the World Series.