Who should get the 2017 & 2018 MLB Commissioner’s Trophy?

This cheating scandal has shown its ugly head in baseball a few times now, but no one really batted an eyelash. Finally, Rob Manfred, the commissioner, got involved after dealing with the juiced ball scandal, the pitch clock and shedding some minor league teams.

It is mind-boggling how perpetrators committed this dishonest task. Someone said that they had someone in the outfield who gave signals to someone on the bench and they banged on a garbage can, which is very, very, very stupid because nowadays cameras are located everywhere and can record all good and bad actions. But this is very possible since now the time between pitches is about 20-23 seconds which is an adequate amount of time to pass a few signals and bang on a garbage can. Manfred investigated it for a brief period and found out that the Astros and the Red Sox had cheated.

Astros owner Jim Crane immediately took action and GM Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch were both suspended for a year. Later they were fired from the team. The Astros were fined $5 million and they lost their ’20-’21 draft picks. Nothing as harsh for Red Sox manager Alex Cora, who’s actually very good as a manager. Cora was captain of the cheating ship of the Red Sox but in the Astros it was up in the front office. They “mutually parted,” which really means that he got fired with a lot of screaming but they didn’t want to get into the news too much. Some players deny it, some say move on. The poor two-time series losing Dodgers’ players were very angry and disappointed at this, as others would also be.

To make matters a lot better, they did this during the postseason, especially during the World Series. Their home batting averages were drastically better than those on the road.

Who knows, maybe the Astros did this is 2019 but they failed, maybe the Washington Nationals are some sort of a huge, big, greatest-of-all-time team or something. 

After the accused teams won the ’17 and ’18 World Series, should the titles be taken away from them? Yes. Who should they give it to? I think MLB should just keep it in their back pocket and give it to no one.