“It’s too big of a sin in baseball to be washed away ever,” says Tom Verducci, a writer for Sports Illustrated, in the new FRONTLINE documentary The Astros Edge: Triumph and Scandal in Major League Baseball, which premieres on the first day of baseball’s 2023 postseason. Some six years later, the Astros’ reputation continues to bear the stain from an illegal 2017 sign-stealing scheme that became one of the most explosive scandals in modern baseball history. For the seventh year in a row, the Houston Astros are heading to the playoffs.īut hopes for another World Series win aren’t the only thing following the team into the postseason.