The St. Louis Cardinals have fired scouting director Chris Correa, a team lawyer said Thursday. Correa’s termination is due to the man admitting to hacking the Houston Astros’ information database, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
The Cardinals would not say why Correa was fired. The former scouting director’s lawyer did issue a statement:
“Mr. Correa denies any illegal conduct,” Correa’s lawyer said in a statement to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “The relevant inquiry should be what information did former St. Louis Cardinals employees steal from the St. Louis Cardinals organization prior to joining the Houston Astros, and who in the Houston Astros organization authorized, consented to, or benefitted from that roguish behavior.”
Way to spin the issue, mister lawyer.
None of that excuses Correa hacking Houston’s internal system if that’s indeed what he did. The Post-Dispatch reports he admitted to doing the hack, but he claimed it was to make sure former Cardinals employee Jeff Luhnow did not take any proprietary information with him to the Astros.
Correa reportedly says he did not leak the sensitive information (which we posted here), nor did he perpetuate any of the other hacks alleged by the FBI.
Luhnow denies stealing any information from the Cardinals and says they did not hack him by using his old passwords.
