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Astros Crawfish Boil: February 12th, 2020

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By CKuno Feb 12, 2020, 10:30am CST

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Astros News

The sign-stealing debacle has taken yet another turn as Carlos Beltran’s role in all of it has been fully revealed (The Athletic, $$$)
Who, it turned out, was the Godfather of the whole system (Wall Street Journal, $$$)
In today’s edition of Irony Now: Turns out that Cora, who helped create the system, went and blabbed to the Nats about it before the World Series (CBS Sports)
Less surprising is the fact that players have been complaining about this for years and the league did absolutely nothing (MLB Trade Rumors)
The team itself is going to talk strategy before issuing a statement on the whole affair at Spring Training (ESPN)
Marwin Gonzalez is the latest former Astro to express regret over the scheme (Bleacher Report)
Meanwhile, Joe Musgrove had some interesting things to say about it himself (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Does this lawsuit by Mike Bolsinger have a chance of really going anywhere? (Sports Illustrated)
Even without all the brouhaha going on, the pitching staff will need to adjust to a new reality this season (Sports Radio 610)

Around the League

Baseball Prospectus has released this season’s PECOTA predictions (Baseball Prospectus)
Will Kris Bryant start the 2020 season in a Chicago Cubs uni? (MLB.com)
Rob Manfred is not making very many friends as the commissioner of baseball (Sporting News)
Charlie Morton is still mulling his future after his current contract is over (MLB Trade Rumors)
The Red Sox will tap Ron Roenicke to fill in for the disgraced Alex Cora (Houston Chronicle)