It may have been PiratesFest as PNC Park this weekend, but there was an awful lot of Astros talk.
Earlier this month, Major League Baseball completed its investigation on Houston's systemic cheating and determined they illegally used technology to steal signs during home games in the 2017 and 2018 seasons. Joe Musgrove was on that 2017 World Series-winning Astros team, and was one of the heroes of their Game 5 victory over the Dodgers.
Musgrove talked to Houston media while the investigation was still ongoing in early January. There, he said the allegations don't "affect me at all." On Saturday, he commented on Rob Manfred's findings for the first time.
"Whatever you guys see in the reports and whatever's been put out, that's pretty much the extent of what I knew," Musgrove said Saturday. "Even more so some stuff that I had no idea was going on, if it was going on."
Shortly after, he added, "I was in my first year as a rookie, I was just keeping shut, keep my mouth shut, keeping to myself and trying to learn from the guys I was around. I know I personally never benefited from any kind of sign stealing. It really doesn't work that way for pitchers. And I was in the bullpen for the majority of that season, so all the stuff that was going on, I wasn't really necessarily in the dugout or around while it was go on, so it's just stories that I hear."
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