Inside MLB’s Astros cheating investigation: GM Jeff Luhnow deleted phone data
The Astros‘ shine had vanished, and according to a letter of inquiry that Rob Manfred issued to Jeff Luhnow, data on Luhnow’s cell phone had also vanished after being deleted by Luhnow.
Major League Baseball’s inspectors launched a full-scale investigation after reading The Athletic’s report. MLB’s detectives hadn’t always been ready to arrive, but this time, they arrived right away. Star athletes and regular fans alike flocked to Twitter to express their horror at the scandal, which resulted in an equally swift backlash.
Speaking at the winter meetings in mid-December 2019, commissioner Manfred called the review of the Astros “probably the most thorough investigation that the commissioner’s office has ever undertaken.”
The investigation took about two months
The league’s department of investigations would interview 68 persons over the course of two months, including 23 Astros players, and gather more than 76,000 emails. Slack messages and mobile devices were also included in MLB’s forensic capabilities.
The league advises everyone who expresses interest in an investigation in writing that they must keep their cell phones. According to a person with direct knowledge of the league’s inquiry, the Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow had told one of his assistants, Bill Firkus, to personally alert other club members that MLB might take their devices.
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That source said that MLB interviewed several Astros employees in an attempt to figure out what message Luhnow delivered to Firkus and what Firkus subsequently relayed to others. The following bullet points are the source’s recounting of the league’s interviews:
• Speaking to investigators, Firkus’ initial recollection of Luhnow’s request is said to have been that Luhnow had called in a quick and hurried manner, and that Luhnow had asked him to tell others to delete information from their phone. Firkus, however, is said to have later clarified to the league he didn’t think Luhnow had used the word ‘delete:’ it was more that Luhnow had told him to contact a bunch of individuals and let them know their phone might be confiscated, and that they should be comfortable with what was on there. (Another source with knowledge of the matter said Firkus had only one conversation about this topic and did not change his story or provide two different versions.) Investigators ultimately did not consider Firkus to have changed his story.
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