When the Los Angeles Dodgers held an introductory press conference at Dodger Stadium after signing Trevor Bauer to a record-setting contract, president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman assured he and team president Stan Kasten spoke with the volatile pitcher about his past transgressions.
“Hopefully, over the last six-plus years, some trust and credibility has been built up in terms of the research that we do on players and the vetting process that we go through in terms of talking to teammates, talking to clubhouse guys, talking to trainers,” Friedman said at the time.
“We get as much information as we can on players.