Day by day, we're learning more about the most fascinating story in baseball right now: The St. Louis Cardinals being investigated by the FBI for hacking into a proprietary database belonging to the Houston Astros. Corporate espionage and data breaches, as you know, aren't generally in the baseball news cycle.
It's an interesting intersection, however, for Astros GM Jeff Luhnow, who worked in technology and engineering before beginning his career as a baseball executive. And that's one of the reasons Luhnow is now categorically denying that the use of outdated passwords by him and members of his staff assisted the hack.