The consequences from the cheating scandal from the Houston Astros were released this week and Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred gave appropriate punishments to the club. AJ Hinch and Jeff Luhnow were both given one-year suspensions and then Astros owner Jim Crane immediately dismissed both of them from their positions.
A day later, Alex Cora (who was apart of the Astros coaching staff that season) mutually agreed to leave his position with the Boston Red Sox. There’s just one more person in this mix that hasn’t been talked about much. Carlos Beltran was just recently hired by the New York Mets as the new manager and is caught up in the mix with Cora and Hinch. Manfred has been cleared Beltran of possible discipline and the New York Mets are staying silent about it, but a decision of Beltran’s employment with the club must be evaluated.
I’m primarily a Yankee blogger, but I’m going to keep this as straight forward as possible. If Carlos Beltran is as guilty as the other names that lost their jobs or were punished, the same should go for him. It wouldn’t be the decent thing to do by the Mets organization if he was kept on.
I understand that firing your manager that hasn’t even managed one game yet would be an embarrassment to the club, but keeping a cheater as your head coach would simply be the wrong thing to do.
I hope that Beltran has nothing on him and is able to manage the Mets this season, but if he’s guilty just like the other names mentioned, there should be no place for him on a Major League field in the near future.