based on the MLB findings, Watkins was operating on his own.
Yeah, he came up with that idea on his own right when the team came under the management of a man who had just used stealing signs using the replay room to win the World Series, and then he somehow communicated those signs to runners on second base while sitting in the replay room, involving nobody else. Yeah.
This is just like the NCAA: someone finds out that places like Kentucky and Kansas are paying players, so they slam the hell out of Buttfreak State first, make a big deal out of it, and then pat the big boys on the head in the middle of some major news cycle and hope nobody notices. Manfred should be fired.