Dodgers Players and Alex Cora Reportedly Warned Nationals About Astros Sign Stealing Before 2019 World Series

As the old proverb goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

The Houston Astros made some enemies on their way to a claiming a tainted championship in 2017, and their actions may have come back to bite them in their most recent World Series bid against the Washington Nationals.

According to Barry Svrluga and Dave Sheinin of the Washington Post, several Los Angeles Dodgers players, the team Houston defeated in the 2017 World Series, reached out to Nationals infielder Brian Dozier to warn him about sign-stealing. Dozier played with the Dodgers in 2018.

In addition to Dodgers players, an old ally of the Astros who is actually credited with directing the technology used to steal the signs, also went out of his way to warn the Nats.

Former Astros bench coach and recently-fired Red Sox manager Alex Cora reportedly ratted on his former team to Washington manager Dave Martinez, warning him of the roadmap that Cora himself created. This revelation has very similar vibes to Cora's attempted fingerpointing towards Carlos Beltran after the Yankees defeated his Red Sox in London.

Cora was fired from his post in Boston after his role in the scandal was exposed.

Why Cora would go out of his way to give the Nationals an edge on his former team is unknown, and is a bizarre act of iniquity considering the scale of his role in the cheating. Did he think that ratting on Houston to help the underdog Nationals win a championship would absolve him of any moral guilt for his role in the scandal? Or did he just have a rooting interest?

It is worth noting that Cora and Martinez have a long-standing relationship, and Cora even congratulated Martinez for the World Series win on Instagram.

Maybe Cora knew that the consequences of his actions were coming, and thought that schmoozing up to Martinez ahead of time would be his best bet at landing a job after his suspension.