Former Astros GM Jeff Luhnow deleted data from his phone, a new book excerpt from EvanDrellich reveals. Inside MLB’s cheating scandal investigation.
’s investigators sprung into action with full force. MLB had not always been eager to send in its detectives, but this time, they descended immediately. The outcry over the scandal was just as rapid, as star players and average fans alike took their shock to Twitter.
In any investigation, the league notifies people of interest in writing that they need to preserve their cell phones. Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow, investigators learned, had instructed one of his lieutenants, Bill Firkus, to give a personal heads up to others with the team that MLB might collect their devices, a person with direct knowledge of the league’s investigation said.
“I cooperated fully in the investigation and never discouraged anyone from doing the same,” Luhnow said in a statement. According to people with knowledge of the league’s investigation, the GM of the Astros had wiped every back-up from his phone, besides one, and other data was missing as well. MLB confronted Luhnow about the deletions in his second interview. According to sources with knowledge of the league’s investigation, Luhnow admitted to MLB that he deleted photos of his wife the night before his interview, and acknowledged he backed up the device the next morning. He then deleted prior backups, he is said to have told MLB investigators, so that MLB would not get those photos.
Luhnow is not known to have asked for permission to delete the backups, and likely, he wouldn’t have received it, a person with knowledge of the investigation said. But, it was at least possible MLB could have offered to have a third party process the phone to keep MLB from viewing the photos, had Luhnow raised the issue.
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