Major League Baseball announced on Monday that the St. Louis Cardinals must pay $2 million plus their two picks in the 2017 MLB Draft to the Houston Astros as a result for hacking their baseball operations database over a 2 1/2 year span. The employee behind the hack, Chris Correa, is currently serving 46 months in federal prison as a result. Correa additionally had to pay the Astros $279,038.65. Despite the determining that Correa acted alone and no one else was aware of the hacks, the MLB determined that the Cardinals were "vicariously liable." Cardinals chairman and CEO William O. DeWitt Jr. said in a statement