The Case Against Stripping the Astros of Their World Series Title

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Monday afternoon, the Major League Baseball commissioner, Rob Manfred, handed out the stiffest penalties for in-game misconduct in the sport's recent history. The guilty party was the Houston Astros, who during their 2017 championship season designed a system of stealing opposing teams' pitching signs and relaying them to their own hitters. Manfred found that both Houston's general manager, Jeff Luhnow, and its manager, A. J. Hinch, knew of the plan and failed to stop it; Lunhow and Hinch were suspended for a year by the MLB and, hours later, fired by the Astros themselves.

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