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Los Angeles Dodgers said that they had properly vetted pitcher Trevor Bauer before signing him, but they either missed a prior assault allegation or didn’t care
The Los Angeles Dodgers wanted you to know that they had done their due diligence. In a press conference introducing starting pitcher Trevor Bauer, who the Dodgers had just signed to a three-year, $102m contract, the team’s president of
baseball operations, Andrew Friedman, wanted to make that clear.
Addressing Bauer’s well-established history of online harassment and feuds with teammates, Friedman wanted to emphasize the Dodgers weren’t worried about the pitcher’s reputation. “Hopefully over the last six-plus years,” Friedman said, “some trust and credibility has been built up in terms of the research we do on players and the vetting process that we go through ... we get as much information as we can on players.”