St. Louis Cardinals: Chris Correa pleads guilty to hacking Astros

The Former St. louis Cardinals’ scouting director, Chris Correa, has agreed to plead guilty to hacking the Astros.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Correa has agreed to plead guilty on five of the 12 charges that are being brought against him in the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros hacking scandal.

Reid Laymance of the Houston Chronicle is reporting that as of this morning no guilty plea has been reported from Correa, but later retreated that statement, saying the plea has been entered, and Correa is quoted as saying that he “takes responsibility for his mistakes”.

Laymance also states that the Cardinals had access to the Astros data at different times from 2012-2014, shortly after the scandal broke, Chris Correa spoke up and said that he was the one who was responsible for hacking into the Astros system.

Correa claims that he was doing it simply to see whether Houston Astros GM and former St. Louis Cardinals’ Scouting Director Jeff Luhnow had stolen anything from the Cardinals on his way out.

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The interesting thing about the claims is that according to Laymance, Correa denied that he did anything illegal.

He instead had his original lawyer turn the claims against the Astros, saying, “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 benefited from that roguish behavior.”

If that doesn’t sound like a child complaining to a parent saying “He did it first,” I don’t know what does. Correa, has since switched to a Houston based attorney in David Adler, according to the Chronicle, who has probably had Correa change his tune a bit, if he is pleading guilty to nearly half of the charges he is faced with.

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When word comes out on official trial information and such, we will have you covered. I would assume, that since Correa was acting alone, that there shouldn’t be any MLB sanctions placed on the team as a whole. However, you never know what goes on behind closed doors and there could have been more involved than we know.