Wednesday Morning Hot Links

I spent the majority of Tuesday working on a write-up related to the report in The Athletic.

The Astros released a statement promising to cooperate with MLB's investigation. In that statement, Luhnow:

The reason we won the World Series in 2017 is Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman, Justin Verlander, and a lot of great players and they do things the right way and we as an organization, that's what we aspire to do as well.

Also, Luhnow:

We haven't done everything properly, but I do feel confident that in general, most of the time, we did things right and we try and follow the rules. We try to be good citizens and we try to compete as hard as we can.

Carlos Beltran denied The Athletic's [and Mike Fiers']…