Trevor Bauer’s words come back to haunt him.
A baseball was removed during the game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics on Wednesday after Bauer was on the hill for the first time to inspect it as part of MLB’s recent suppression of foreign drugs.
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Bob Melvin, manager of A, did not confirm whether the ball was inspected, but said after the game that it can be expected this season.
“This year they’re looking at baseballs to maybe do a scoping and do something uniform along the way, as far as it can be used,” Melvin said.
The league issued a memorandum late last month informing teams of three new enforcement components that will be implemented this season to determine if a player is using illegal drugs.
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Bauer posted a video on YouTube the next day criticizing the new policy.
“It’s just illegal for pitchers to have ‘foreign substances’ on their person, their body or whatever,” Bauer said via NBC Sports Bay Area. “It’s not illegal for a catcher or his chest protector, as you have seen. It’s not illegal for a third baseman to have it on his glove or a midfielder to have it on his glove – as far as I know, maybe there’s a rule change or some language – as far as I know the rules of baseball, it’s legal for those guys to have stuff on their glove. ‘
He continues: ‘My question is: if I cast a pitch and it is thrown out and then tested and there is a foreign substance on it, how do they know that it comes from me and not from the glove of the catcher or the third glove’s glove? Or if it happens on a dirty ball, if it happens to hit the handle of a bat where a hit has tar or any other substance he wants, which is perfectly legal, as long as it is not too far into the bat . ‘
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Under the new rules, players using illegal foreign substances can be subject to discipline “regardless of whether evidence of the offense was discovered during or after a match.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.