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Elephant Rumblings: MLB announces Red Sox punishment for cheating scandal

Summary of the Red Sox report

MLB's investigation into the Boston Red Sox's sign stealing during 2018 revealed a far lesser scheme than the Houston Astros, with penalties accordingly less severe: Only a loss of a second-round pick and a replay operator banned, as @Ken_Rosenthal and @EvanDrellich reported.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) April 22, 2020

More on the Red Sox cheating

The information was only relevant when the Red Sox had a runner on 2B (which was 19.7% of plate appearances), and Watkins communicated sign sequences in a manner that indicated that he had decoded them from the in-game feed in only a small percentage of those occurrences.