While the MLB’s investigation into the Boston Red Sox’s cheating scandal from 2018 remains unresolved, players from that squad are denying, denying, denying.
Second baseman Rafael Devers and World Series MVP Steve Pearce are among the Red Sox players who have denied cheating. Former Red Sox and current L.A. Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly chimed in during a recent interview with WEEI.
The Red Sox used video replay room illegally on the path to winning the World Series during the 2018 season, according to The Athletic’s Evan Drellich. The team already fired manager Alex Cora for his involvement in the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal — Cora was the Astros’ bench coach during their marred World Series season.
But if you asked the Red Sox, there was no foul play during 2018. Here’s what Kelly told WEEI, via WEEI.com’s Rob Bradford:
“From the get-go, I just thought it was laugh out loud funny. Now that this is the last thing on people’s mind obviously with how the world is right now. Whenever the investigation is done I’m interested in seeing what is in the investigation. If there is cheating involved with how good our team was we should have won every single out. We should have not even lost an inning if there was some good cheating involved, which would have been a lot more fun because we would have won in four. We would have swept through the playoffs and made it really, really fast and been able to go to Hawaii or go to Mexico and go on vacation a lot sooner than we did.”
Considering the strength of Kelly’s remarks, it will be fascinating to see what — if anything — the league finds from their investigation of the Sox.
