Former St. Louis Cardinals' Front Office Staff Gets 46 Months in Prison

HOUSTON, TX — Let the bad baseball puns begin. The former director of baseball development for the St. Louis Cardinals was sentenced to 46 months in club fed for repeatedly hacking the Astros.

Morning zoo crew DJs and the Twitter commentariat have been laughing it up for months because Christopher Correa, 36, used an old employee's password to break into the Astros system.

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Sure,the hack was babytown follies easy, but the info Correa got wasn't which concession stand gives you extra chips for your nachos. He had access to the Astros private player development database for over a year.

Correa admitted that he had read through all of the team's scouting reports, looked at all of the contract info for current and upcoming players, looked at what players the Astros were willing to trade and who they were thinking about drafting.

He also looked at what was being developed by the Astros' analytics department — the money ball guys — and the farm reports, how players in the developmental leagues were doing. All told, Correa cost the Astros $1.7 million in damages.

Not so funny now, is it.