Jeff Luhnow reaffirms that the Yankees and Red Sox are cheating and MLB knows it

The Houston Astros becamethe most heated team in all sports last year after Mike Friers revealed that they were using a sign-stealing scandal during their 2017 World Series run. MLB investigated the matter and concluded that they were indeed cheating.

Major League Baseball suspended General Manager Jeff Luhnow and coaches AJ Hinch and Álex Cora for a year – who was a part of the organization that year – which led to their respective teams firing them.

And now, months after the scandal broke the news and that Luhnow and Hinch were let go, the former GM opened up in an uncensored interview to try and clean his name and reaffirm that he wasn’t involved in their scheme.

Jeff Luhnow Says He Didn’t Know That The Astros Were Cheating

“I didn’t know we were cheating. I had no idea. I wasn’t involved. Major League Baseball’s report stated that I didn’t know anything about the trash can banging scheme. They stated I might have known something about the video decoding scheme and not paid it much attention. But there was really no credible evidence of that claim. I didn’t know. I didn’t know about either of them. And it felt like, on that day, that I was getting punished for something that I didn’t do. And it didn’t feel right,” Luhnow said.

Jeff Luhnow Claims MLB Knows That The Yankees And Red Sox Cheat

More than that, Luhnow claimed that, according to the investigation, there are multiple shreds of evidence that show that theNew York Yankees and Boston Red Sox have been cheating for a while and that the league is well aware of it:

“And then after the investigation was over and I was fired, I got access to about 22,000 text messages that were from personnel in the video room. And it was clear from those messages that they were communicating back and forth about the rule violations. They were aware of the Red Sox and Yankees rule violations, they were aware it was wrong, and they also were using text messages to cheat on the job. They were communicating signs, and this was to coaches, to people in the video room. It’s all there in black and white. And what’s also clear from it is who’s not involved. I’m not implicated. I’m not in any of those text messages. In fact, there’s a few text messages where they say ‘Don’t tell Jeff,” he concluded.

Whether Luhnow is telling the truth or not is not for us to decide, but MLB commissioner Robert Manfred should clarify or deny these statements if he doesn’t want this situation to get – even more – out of hand.