Major League Baseball announced their findings after investigating the Boston Red Sox for alleged misconduct with their video replay room, which commissioner Rob Manfred determined did take place under the lead of replay system operator J.T. Watkins.
However, Manfred also found that the level to which the Red Sox violated MLB’s rules was not hear that of the Houston Astros. Particularly with Manfred noting there was not any evidence of the Red Sox carrying out their scheme during the 2018 postseason or World Series, when they defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“I find that unlike the Houston Astros’ 2017 conduct, in which players communicated to the batter from the dugout area in real time the precise type of pitch about to be thrown, Watkins’s conduct, by its very nature, was far more limited in scope and impact,” Manfred wrote.