 Now there's a new story on the athletic about Carlos Beltran, okay? That he really was a kingpin with the Astros so in this story by Rosenthal and dry like the guys who really pushed the story forward He writes during the season small groups of Astros discussed their misgivings Brian McCann at one point approached Beltran and asked him to stop two members of the 2017 team said He disregarded and steamrolled everybody one of the team members said What do you go if you're a young impressionable player with the Astros and this guy says we're doing this. What do you do? Beltran did not respond to a request for comment half a dozen member of the 2017 team interviewed by the athletic for the story spoke only on the condition of anonymity So Beltran was a big part of this So how could he be a big part of it and gets nothing he got fired by the Mets But Major League Baseball at least on the record didn't have anything to do with that Members of the 17 Astros use various terms to describe Beltran Al Hefe the godfather the king the alpha male in the building Beltran was 40 that season capping off a 20-year career seeking to add to his Hall of Fame resume No, the person the Astros clubhouse carried the same stature Including McCann who was 33 that season and a less accomplished player I mean, it's really bad really implicates him quite a bit How can a kingpin Not get suspended Beltran retired after 17 season a world champion for the first time less than two months later He returned to one of his former teams the Yankees as a special advisor to Brian Cashman by that point paranoia about a legal Sign stealing had reached a fever picture on the league A good portion of that paranoia was directed the Astros and the Yankees already held suspicions about the seven-game loss to Houston One Yankee official said whenever we would ask what the Astros are doing now there Beltran would chuckle and say nothing no one else is doing Two other former Yankees with the Astros McCann and Joe Aspada who took over for course Ben's coach in 18 Essentially would say the same and casual conversations with their former club But Beltran according to one team source Develops particulars of the Astros scheme to certain low-level Yankee officials providing confirmation The team was justified in ramping up its efforts to combat sign stealing True to his reputation as a savvy observer of the game Beltran also admonish the Yankees with his ability or stonest the Yankees with his ability to determine through video legally Which of their prospects were tipping pitches? While his information proved useful his overall impact was minimal some what the team say and then Korra In England when the Yankees took those two games. I was joking with somebody the Yankees biggest free-age in acquisition was Carlos Beltran Korra said with a big wink. I know it works, you know, he's helping a lot. They're paying attention to details We have to clean up our details so now The point about what you've been making Don How do you not punish the players this guy was the kingpin, right? well Obviously they couldn't do anything to him because he was a player at the time and protected by the Players Association Or Carlos gave up all the information that he was the primary source, right in getting Crane and Hinch and the general manager Lunal Suspended so I'm either to think that he was protected by the Players Association or he was their main source of information The most fascinating part of that story is that McCann went to him said we have to stop and he was steamrolled them That's how much power he had and I and that also leads something to what I What somebody told me about the actuals in general that Hinch knew he could not stop Korra because Korra and Beltran were like a team in this and Hinch knew that if he made a big Deal out of it, they're winning nine out of every ten games. The push would have been no And yet he's the one that gets suspended and they don't yeah, doesn't that well or is gonna get suspended but still Korra deserves to get suspended. Yeah, what are we getting at this occasion stop athletic? No, when are we getting the Red Sox full information? We're supposed to get it early this week, so be tired tomorrow