MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has ordered the Cardinals to pay $2 million and forfeit its top two draft picks in this year's draft to the Astros as punishment for a former Cards executive hacking the Astros computer network.

Chris Correa, the Cardinals’ former director of amateur scouting, pleaded guilty in January 2016 to five criminal charges involving unauthorized access to the Astros database.

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The Cardinals fired Correa in 2015, and he currently is serving a 46-month sentence in federal prison.

St. Louis Cardinals Chairman and CEO William O. DeWitt Jr. said in a statement the club supports the commissioner's decision.

“We respect the Commissioner’s decision and appreciate that there is now a final resolution to this matter,” DeWitt said. “Commissioner Manfred’s findings are fully consistent with our own investigation’s conclusion that this activity was isolated to a single individual.”

Baseball officials had been waiting for more information on the case to be released by U.S. District Court before deciding on a punishment, and those documents finally were released last Thursday. According to the Houston Chronicle, Correa hacked into the Astros database 48 times over a period of 2 1/2 years, accessing five different Astros employee accounts.

One of those accounts belonged to Sig Mejdal, the Astros' director of decision sciences. A former Cardinals employee, Mejdal reportedly had clashed with Correa on several occasions.

Michael Chu, the assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted Correa, said in the unsealed documents that Correa was motivated in part by jealousy of Mejdal, his former supervisor with the Cardinals. Mejdal was being praised for his work in talent acquisition with the Astros, including a cover story in a 2014 issue of Sports Illustrated.

"Mejdal was one of Correa's rivals," Chu wrote, according to the Chronicle. "And now, this rival was being praised, even though his team had not yet begun to win."

The unsealed court documents also reveal that Correa attempted to access the account of Bo Porter, the Astros manager at the time.

The Cardinals will forfeit the No. 56 and No. 75 overall selections in this year's draft.