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HOUSTON -- A federal judge sentenced the former scouting director of the St. Louis Cardinals to nearly four years in prison Monday for hacking the Houston Astros player-personnel database and email system in an unusual case of high-tech cheating involving two Major League Baseball clubs.Christopher Correa had pleaded guilty in January to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer from 2013 to at least 2014, the same year he was promoted to director of baseball development in St. Louis. He was fired last summer and now faces 46 months behind bars and a court order to pay $279,038 in restitution. He had faced up to five years in prison on each count.Correa read a letter in court before he was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Hughes and he said he was overwhelmed with remorse and regret for my actions.I violated my values and it was wrong ... I behaved shamefully, he said. The whole episode represents the worst thing Ive done in my life by far.Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. last year had blamed the hack on roguish behavior by a handful of individuals. No one else was charged.MLB could discipline the Cardinals, possibly with a fine or a loss of draft picks, but has said only that it looked forward to getting details on the case from federal authorities.The data breach was reported in June 2014 when Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow told reporters the team had been the victim of hackers who accessed servers and proceeded to publish online months of internal trade talks. Luhnow had previously worked for the Cardinals.Federal prosecutors say the hacking cost the Astros about $1.7 million, taking into account how Correa used the Astros data to draft players.The FBI said Correa was able to gain access using a password similar to that used by a Cardinals employee who had to turn over his Cardinals-owned laptop to Correa along with the laptops password when he was leaving for a job with the Astros in 2011. The employee was not identified, though Luhnow left St. Louis for Houston in December of that year to become general manager.Prosecutors have said that Correa in 2013 improperly downloaded a file of the Astros scouting list of every eligible player for that years draft. They say he also improperly viewed notes of trade discussions as well as a page that listed information such as potential bonus details, statistics and notes on recent performances and injuries by team prospects.The Astros rely heavily on sabermetrics in their evaluation of players and use a database called Ground Control to house proprietary information.Authorities say that after the Astros took security precautions involving Ground Control following a Houston Chronicle story about the database, Correa was still able to get into it. Authorities say he hacked the email system and was able to view 118 pages of confidential information, including notes of trade discussions, player evaluations and a 2014 team draft board that had not yet been completed.Luhnow was a key figure in the Cardinals own database, called Redbird. At least one former Cardinals employee -- Sig Mejdal, a former NASA employee and analytics expert -- had joined Luhnow in Houston.Luhnow has not commented in detail about the case, although he has denied using any of the Cardinals intellectual property or information from Redbird to create Houstons database.The Cardinals are among baseballs most successful franchises. Only the New York Yankees have more World Series titles than the 11 won by St. Louis. The Astros and Cardinals were rivals in the National League Central until Houston moved to the American League in 2013. Luis Tiant Jersey . The deal is pending a physical, assistant general manager Bobby Evans said. Traded from Seattle to Baltimore on Aug. 30, Morse also can play first base and right field to give manager Bruce Bochy some flexibility in writing his lineup. 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