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Michael Conforto not condemning teammates who played for 2017 Astros

Michael Conforto

MLB players are in agreement that the Houston Astros crossed the line and then some with their electronic sign stealing in 2017. Some of those players, however, will be playing alongside guys who were a part of that scheme.

Current New York Mets players J.D. Davis and Jake Marisnick were both members of the 2017 Astros, and certainly had knowledge of what the team was doing. In Marisnick’s case, he was an active beneficiary. However, Mets teammate Michael Conforto wouldn’t condemn the pair, which Joel Sherman of the New York Post expects to be copied by other players with teammates who played on that team.

One of the reasons MLB did not push harder to punish players involved was because several have moved on to other teams and it would not be fair to those organizations to belatedly punish them for something that happened somewhere else. It’s going to make for awkward moments as guys who were on that team play alongside guys who hate what that team did.

Marisnick played in 106 games for that year’s Astros, so he was certainly aware of what was going on. Davis wasn’t quite as aware, or so he says.

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