When Mike Clevinger unleashed verbal barrage on the 2017 Houston Astros cheating squad

In 2020, former Cleveland Indians pitcher Mike Clevinger delivered a scathing assessment of the 2017 Houston Astros squad that was found to have cheated en route to the World Series title.

"Biggest piece of s**t in baseball history," Clevinger said of the Astros team.

"There's a lot more the public doesn't see because you don't see the money being placed," he added. "You don't see guys going up and don't. You're not seeing those guys literally working their a** off to finally get a glimpse that literally living off their parents, like taking two different jobs in the offseason, having to lift at 2 a.m., bro. I've been there. I've been there."

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The Astros' sign-stealing scandal shook the entire MLB. It was found that the Astros deployed a camera system to record the signals of opposition teams, which were then transmitted to their own hitters via a system of garbage can banging.

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A.J. Hinch, the coach of Houston, and Jeff Luhnow, the general manager, were each handed one-year bans as a consequence of an MLB investigation that concluded in 2020. The Astros also received a $5 million fine and lost their first- and second-round selections in the following two MLB drafts.

Mike Clevinger was not happy with the punishments Astros received

Mike Clevinger felt that the punishments amounted to nothing more than a slap on the wrist.

"I don't think any of those motherf****** should be able to look us in the eye," Clevinger said in 2020. "They should feel ashamed. You want to protect the guy next to you? You want to protect the sanctity of baseball?

"It's not giving $5 million discipline to a $1 billion corporation while they're still walking around with the same [World Series] ring on their finger, the same uniform, the same city and the same contract. What's that really going to change?"

Mike Clevinger, who made his MLB debut in 2016, currently plays for the Chicago White Sox.