Tony Kemp saw what was going on with the Houston Astros in 2017. He was powerless to stop the sign-stealing scandal that has enveloped the baseball world this offseason, but he did not partake in the crime.
Kemp, who will compete to be the A's starting second baseman this spring, arrived at camp Friday and answered questions he knew would be slung his way about his old mates' trash-can banging alert system.
The 28-year-old, who the Astros brought up late in the 2017 season, told reporters he refused to be apart of the scheme.
“I was up and down in 2017 and once I got there in September, the system was already in place,” Kemp said, via Susan Slusser of The San Francisco Chronicle.