Astros owner Jim Crane apologized for the team's sign-stealing scandal before the beginning of Spring Training on Thursday.
Crane stated, "how sorry our team is for what happened," but fell short of acknowledging the effect sign-stealing had on the Astros' 2017 run to the World Series.
"Our opinion is this didn’t impact the game," Crane told the media at the Astros' spring training facility in West Palm Beach, Fla. "We had a good team. We won the World Series and we’ll leave it at that.”
Crane was then asked whether the sign stealing gave an advantage to Astros' hitters.