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Carlos Beltran, who is currently working with the Mets' front office, played for the Astros in 2017 just before retiring from the game. But the season he played for them will go down as the most memorable part of his career.
The Astros cheating scandal of 2017 is one of the most controversial incidents in MLB history. Beltran is believed to be the co-conspirator along with Alex Cora. The two were accused of reading signs with the use of cameras during the 2017 World Series.
However, in a 2019 interview with the New York Post, Beltran denied the accusations against him.
Beltran said in his defense:
“I’m not aware of that camera,”
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He added:
“We were studying the opposite team every day.”
Even with the claims made by Carlos Beltran, the proof of the Astros using unfair means was too damning. That is why the team was fined $5 million and were forced to forfeit their first and second draft picks for the 2020-21 season.
Even Mike Fiers, who was the whistleblower to the scandal, has confessed to cheating. Fiers pitched for the Astros between 2015 and 2017, and was later traded off to Detroit Tigers.
When Carlos Beltran said that the Astros Organization should have stopped him in 2017
During a 2020 interview with CBC news, Carlos Beltran admitted to the Astros cheating in the 2017 World Series. Along with admitting that, he shed light on the team culture of the Astros that encouraged such behavior.
However, Beltran seemed apologetic about it. He said :
"Looking back … we were wrong. We all did what we did," Beltran said.
Beltran added:
"Looking back today, we were wrong. I wish I would've asked more questions about what we were doing.
He continued with:
I wish the organization would've said to us, 'Hey man, what you guys are doing, we need to stop this.'"
However, it would be untrue to say that the Astros did not punish the members involved in the scandal. The Astros fired Manager A.J. Hinch and General Manager Jeff Luhnow in 2020 after the MLB confirmed their findings.
