Former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa will reportedly plead guilty to charges stemming from the hack of the Houston Astros baseball database, according to a report.
Correa, who was fired by the team in July after the allegations broke, had agreed to the guilty plea, according to Brian Costa and Devlin Barrett of the Wall Street Journal.
Correa took responsibility for the hack of the Astros’ player information system in June, though at the time he claimed that he was simply making sure his former boss and current Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow hadn’t taken proprietary information with him to Houston.
Correa seems to be taking the fall for what was originally claimed to be a low-level hack. Whatever the case, the Cardinals weren’t exactly pros at it, and this has caused them significant public embarrassment.
