The Boston Red Sox will forfeit this year's second-round draft pick due to a pattern of sign-stealing during the 2018 season, Major League Baseball announced Wednesday.
MLB also suspended replay operator J.T. Watkins for one year after determining he utilized game feeds in the replay room to "revise sign sequence information that he had permissibly provided to players prior to the game."
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