LOS ANGELES: Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred apologized Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) for calling the championship trophy a “piece of metal” but defended his decision not to strip the Houston Astros of their 2017 World Series crown.
The Astros were fined $5 million and lost their top two MLB Draft picks for the next two years for a sign-stealing scandal detailed in an MLB investigation that found cameras and a monitor used to learn what pitches rival hurlers would throw and had players hit trash cans to signal batters what was coming.
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