Trevor Bauer in 2020 on widespread ball doctoring: "Every team's pitchers cheat, technically, by using foreign substances" 

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer is known for calling a spade a spade. In January 2020, in a Bleacher Report interview, he openly claimed that illegal substances are widely used in the MLB for ball doctoring.

Bauer was asked whether Houston Astros pitchers were involved in cheating, referring to the 2017 sign-stealing cheating scandal. He responded that pitchers in every MLB team technically cheat by utilizing foreign substances.

"Every team's pitchers cheat, technically, by using foreign substances," Bauer said.

Back in 2020, Trevor was playing with the Cincinnati Reds. He later signed a three-year, $102M contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Trevor Bauer was investigated by MLB for ball doctoring in 2021

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Surprisingly, just one year after his interview with Bleacher Report, Trevor Bauer was investigated by MLB for using foreign substances on balls. This occured in the April of 2021.

Bauer quickly took to Twitter to call the claims "desperate and deceptive clickbait headlines."

"Balls from every other pitcher being taken out of play in literally every other game this season are? Also lol to @MLB who already has “sources” talking to gossip bloggers about a supposedly confidential process a week into the season," Trevor Bauer wrote.

"Lol, always fun reading desperate and misleading clickbait headlines from national gossip bloggers," Bauer he added.

MLB also sent a notification to 30 teams in March 2021 regarding the monitoring of Statcast data to see if pitchers were using foreign substances on baseballs.