You’re acting a little like Patriot haters. He didn’t say they cheated to win their title; he said they cheated while winning their title. There’s a difference. He specifically says he doesn’t know the impact because it’s impossible to know - including the fact that some players found it distracting (harmful) and wound up opting out as time went on. The Astros didn’t cheat in 2019 and made it all the way to Game 7 of the World Series, so to say that cheating caused them to win the title takes away from the fact that pure talent and work got them to the brink. Very possible with all the talent on the 2017 team they would have won it all anyway.
Not trying to excuse the Astros for violating the rules, but just trying to put it into proper context. Following BB’s Spygate response, on a scale from 1-100 I expect this helped the Astros somewhere around a 1.