Manfred: Cards-Astros hacking decision during offseason

NEW YORK (AP) Major League Baseball plans to have a decision during the offseason on possible discipline stemming from the investigation of a St. Louis Cardinals employee who hacked into a Houston Astros computer system.

Former St. Louis scouting director Christopher Correa was sentenced in July to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay $279,038 in restitution after pleading guilty to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer from 2013 to at least 2014. When he pleaded guilty in January, Correa had maintained he found proprietary Cardinals' information in the Astros' database.

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Cardinals Chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. had blamed the hack on ''roguish behavior'' by a handful of individuals.

''We are in the process of finishing up our investigation,'' baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Wednesday. ''I wish it had gotten a little more help a little sooner from the U.S. attorney's office. But the cards come up how they come up, and we're going to finish our investigation, and there will be a resolution of that during this offseason.''