“No, your honor,” Correa said. Correa left the courthouse without comment, climbing into the passenger seat of a white SUV that was quickly driven away.

Multiple breaches

Correa was originally hired to work on the analytics staff of the Cardinals when Luhnow was in charge of the team’s draft. Correa’s first position was unpaid. He asked to be compensated with only a lunch, with Luhnow and other executives. He worked from 2009 to July 2015 for the Cardinals and rose to become the team’s director of scouting. Correa succeeded Dan Kantrovitz, who had replaced Luhnow after he left for Houston in 2011.

As part of his plea in January, Correa admitted to illicitly accessing Houston’s database through three accounts from at least March 2013 to the end of June 2014.

He began by accessing the email account of one Astros employee who used to work for the Cardinals, referred to in the documents as “Victim A.” Although never mentioned by name in the documents, two of the former employees being described are believed to be Luhnow and Sig Mejdal. Both were key architects in the early days of the Cardinals’ analytic departments, and both are now baseball operations execs in Houston.