VIDEO: Jim Leyritz Explains How '90s Yankees Dynasty Would've Dealt With Cheating Astros

The Houston Astros are still in line for their day of reckoning, as they have yet to face the music for their sign-stealing scandal on the field of play. Players young and old are ruing the fact they missed out on letting the Astros know via a high and inside fastball that cheating is not tolerated. Jim Leyritz, a catcher and infielder on those unstoppable Yankees teams of the late '90s, claims that Joe Torre's teams would have drilled a few Astros players in order to send a message if they heard a trash can bang.

Leyritz's viewpoint seems to be exactly the same as any baseball player who played before the turn of the millennium, as retaliatory beanings were much more common in those days.

Unfortunately for Leyritz, the sign stealing operation was so pervasive that one fastball in the ribs wasn't going to do much when it came to getting the Astros to knock their cheating off. At least the Yankees would've made sure to get the instant gratification of beaning one of the offending cheaters.

Perhaps the most frustrating part of the Astros' cheating scandal was how they were going to keep doing it no mater what until they got caught. Leyritz and those championship Yankees teams might have taken the law into their own hands to try to spook them, but it might not have affected Alex Bregman and Jose Altuve so much that they would've stopped trying to cheat.