



As Major League Baseball and the Players Association exchange proposals regarding in-game video usage, two issues remain: discipline and editing.



Both the league and the union agree philosophically that, going forward, players who steal signs electronically should be subject to discipline. There is an ongoing lawyerly dance, however, over the parameters of those punishments.



The sides aren’t going to set up a firm schedule of punishments ahead of time — i.e., a first-time offender gets 80 games. That’s because every case is different and there are potentially different degrees of violation. The league isn’t going to punish a season-long hacking mastermind the same way it would someone who used contraband information a handful of times during a September call-up.



What the league and union are working to determine, then, are the guiding forces of the punishment, which would be in commissioner Rob Manfred’s hands. Would...