Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said in an Interview with TIME that he maybe shouldn't have given Astros players immunity in sign-stealing saga.
"Some of the decisions surrounding the Houston situation, would like to have those back," Manfred said in the Q&A with the magazine."I mean, if I could take back the rather flip comment I made about the World Series trophy at one time, I’d take that one back. There have been times, particularly in times of pressure, when I look back, taking a little more time might have led to a different outcome.
"The idea of an asterisk or asking for a piece of metal back seems like a futile act," Manfred said at the time, referring to the Commissioner's Trophy. Regretting referring to his sports prized trophy as"a piece of metal" is not a new admission for the commissioner. He told ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr., the, but in his sit-down with TIME, Manfred went deeper on his Astros' regrets.
"I’m not sure that I would have approached it with giving players immunity," Manfred said."Once we gave players immunity, it puts you in a box as to what exactly you were going to do in terms of punishment. I might have gone about the investigative process without that grant of immunity and see where it takes us. Starting with, I’m not going to punish anybody, maybe not my best decision ever.
so they could speak freely. When the investigation concluded the Astros illegally used a live camera to detect signs from the opposing team's catcher, then communicated those signals to their batters in real-time by banging on a trash can, baseball hit the franchise with a $5 million fine, stripped two years' worth of first- and second-round draft picks and dealt one-year suspensions to general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch. Both men later were fired by the team.
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