Former Red Sox infielder Ian Kinsler is the latest member of the 2018 team to publicly claim Major League Baseball’s investigation into the team’s sign-stealing practices will turn up empty.

Appearing on 1310 The Ticket in Dallas, Kinsler said the Red Sox legally stole signs from second base in 2018 but did not do anything like the 2017 Astros, who were found to have use a center field monitor to decode signs that were relayed to batters in real time.

"I don’t know what (the league) is going to find, but in my opinion, it’s not anything close to what’s going on (in Houston), Kinsler said. “The Red Sox were just a very tight-knit group. When I was injected into that team in the middle of the season, it was a lot like the Rangers clubs I was on, where it was just a very tight-knit group and their system was flawless. They just had a very good system of relaying from second base to home plate. That was it. Honestly. We’ll see what happens with the commissioner’s report.”

Kinsler was traded from the Angels to the Red Sox at the 2018 trade deadline and played 37 games for Boston in the final two months of the season. The Sox have been accused of improperly using their video replay room to decode opponents’ signs in 2018, when they won the World Series.

Kinsler said “most teams” steal signs the old fashioned way, with runners on second base relaying them to hitters. The now retired second baseman believes the advent of technology in baseball has created a gray area in how video is use during games.

“If there’s a video and you’re going to check out your at-bat and while you’re checking out your at-bat, there’s a runner on second base also, and you look through your at-bat to see your personal flaws and what you’re trying to fix for the next time… I’m going to go back again and check out the signs and see if I can crack them,” he said. “If I can, I can. If I can’t, I can’t.”

Kinsler said that bad teams, which usually have significant turnover on their roster throughout the season, rarely change signs to avoid sign-stealing. Good teams -- especially those that make the playoffs -- put safeguards on their sign systems so that opponents can’t steal anything.

“You get to the playoffs, all the teams are really good teams,” Kinsler said. “They all know what’s happening. So they are, on the defensive side of the ball, aware of what’s happening. They’re constantly changing and constantly making it very difficult for the other team.

“We got a game into the playoffs with the Red Sox. We couldn’t run our system,” he added. “It was just too difficult.”

Kinsler, who played for the Padres last year and retired over the winter, didn’t say if he had been interviewed by league investigators. Like former teammates Andrew Benintendi, Rafael Devers and J.D. Martinez, Kinsler doesn’t believe the Sox will be hit hard when MLB releases its report later this month.

“I’m interested to see what happens with this whole report because I truly believe they’re not going to find anything that’s substantial,” he said. “They might throw a small punishment out there because they did a report. I don’t know. I don’t know where they stand on this whole thing. We saw where they stood on the Astros thing. I just really don’t see any form of punishment coming to the Red Sox. It was a very good team.”