The St. Louis Cardinals have fired scouting director Chris Correa, who took an indefinite leave of absence amid the ongoing investigation into the alleged hacking of a Houston Astros internal database. Correa’s termination is due to the man admitting to hacking the Houston Astros’ information database, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
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Martin said that the Cardinals were continuing to investigate.
“Mr. Correa denies any illegal conduct”.
Way to spin the issue, mister lawyer.
Once in Houston, Luhnow established Ground Control, a similar information repository for the Astros to use as they rebuilt their listing franchise. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that he is not responsible for the alleged hacking being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to the Post-Dispatch, Correa left a Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan in 2009 to work on a contract basis with Luhnow, who was the Cardinals’ director of amateur scouting and farm director at the time.
As of mid-June, the FBI’s investigation had been narrowed to four to five individuals within the Cardinals organization, a person briefed on the case told the Chronicle.
DeWitt said he and Mozeliak engaged Martin and the law firm of Dowd Bennett to assist the team in providing requested information to the feds.
Giles Kibbe, the Astros’ attorney, said, “We stand by all of our past statements on this issue”. Those logs were posted online and widely viewed at the website Deadspin last June, prompting an FBI investigation. Federal investigators traced at least one of multiple breaches of the Astros’ network to that house.
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Astros GM Jeff Luhnow worked for the Cardinals before leaving for his current job. He previously was the team’s manager of baseball development, the department in charge of statistical analysis, before being promoted to scouting director last winter. DeWitt said Luhnow’s new direction led to a “culture clash”, and the club eventually ousted Jocketty in 2007 citing a divisiveness in baseball strategy.
