The St. Louis Cardinals fired director of scouting Chris Correa yesterday.<\/p>\n
Why do I bring this up? Granted, it is sportsfirings.com, but I don’t cover every minor executive firing.<\/p>\n
But this is special. Correa is apparently the team’s first sacrifice in the great hacking scandal.<\/a><\/p>\n St. Louis attorney Jim Martin, a former federal prosecutor who is conducting the Cardinals\u2019 internal investigation, declined to say if Correa\u2019s dismissal was linked to the FBI case.<\/a> If he actually did admit “breaking into the database”, I think being fired is probably the least of his problems…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The St. Louis Cardinals fired director of scouting Chris Correa yesterday. Why do I bring this up? Granted, it is sportsfirings.com, but I don’t cover every minor executive firing. But this is special. Correa is apparently the team’s first sacrifice in the great hacking scandal. St. Louis attorney Jim Martin, a former federal prosecutor who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,14,38,12,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-clippings","category-firings","category-geek","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13653,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651\/revisions\/13653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHowever, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Correa acknowledged breaking into the database to determine whether the Astros had stolen proprietary data from the Cardinals.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n