New York Yankees stole signs in 2015-16 and were fined $100,000 in 2017, MLB letter confirms

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Major League Baseball fined the New York Yankees $100,000 in 2017 for using their replay room and dugout phone to steal opponents’ signs during the 2015 and 2016 seasons in what commissioner Rob Manfred described as a “material violation” of rules governing the replay room.

The ruling was made public Tuesday, when courts unsealed a letter Manfred sent to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman on Sept. 14, 2017.

The letter’s revelation — a copy of which was obtained by the Chronicle and SportsNet New York — came after the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals last week denied to rehear an appeal from the Yankees to keep it sealed. The letter was obtained during the discovery phase of a $5 million class-action lawsuit brought by DraftKings players against Major League Baseball, the Astros and Boston Red Sox in the wake of the sign-stealing revelations in early 2020.

The two-page document provided few specifics and rehashed much of what Manfred already acknowledged in a Sept. 15, 2017, statement, one in which he disciplined the Red Sox for using their replay room to decode signs and warned that “future violations of this type will be subject to more serious sanctions, including the possible loss of draft picks.”