{"id":40770,"date":"2020-01-15T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40770"},"modified":"2020-01-15T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T02:42:00","slug":"the-other-big-shoe-drops-in-sign-stealing-scandal-more-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40770","title":{"rendered":"The other big shoe drops in sign-stealing scandal; more to fall?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MLB%20%23BigLeagues%20%23HoustonAstros%20%23signstealing%20%23WorldSeries&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40771\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alex-cora-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40771\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alex-cora-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alex-cora-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alex-cora-1024x591.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alex-cora-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alex-cora-1536x887.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alex-cora-2048x1182.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox have fired their field manager, Alex Cora, for his role in a scandal involving another American League baseball team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/mlb\/manager-alex-cora-fired-by-boston-red-sox-amid-mlb-investigation-into-sign-stealing\/ar-BBYXIDY\">The Red Sox had no choice<\/a> but to follow the Houston Astros&#8217; lead. The Astros canned field manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow after Major League Baseball announced they would be suspended for the next season.<\/p>\n<p>What did everyone do here?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the Astros were accused of using high-tech devices to steal signs during the 2017 World Series against Los Angeles Dodgers. They went far beyond the usual techniques used for many decades to swipe signs.<\/p>\n<p>Cora was bench coach for the Astros in 2017. Therefore, he was a principal culprit in the sign-stealing matter.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred had warned all big league teams about the consequences if they persisted in this activity. The Astros ignored the warning \u2026 to their peril.<\/p>\n<p>And so, now Alex Cora is out of a job.<\/p>\n<p>The axe had to fall on the Red Sox field boss.<\/p>\n<p>To its credit, Major League Baseball has become hypersensitive to cheating on the field and is seeking to take charge of this problem.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MLB%20%23BigLeagues%20%23HoustonAstros%20%23signstealing%20%23WorldSeries&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox have fired their field manager, Alex Cora, for his role in a scandal involving another American League baseball team. The Red Sox had no choice but to follow the Houston Astros&#8217; lead. The Astros canned field manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow after Major League Baseball announced they would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40770\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The other big shoe drops in sign-stealing scandal; more to fall?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[721,7386,2860,9160],"class_list":["post-40770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-houston-astros","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-sign-stealing-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40772,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40770\/revisions\/40772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}