Derek Bender, the former Minnesota Twins minor league catcher who is under investigation for telling opposing hitters what pitches were coming, denied the allegations in an interview with The Athletic as he remains out of professional baseball.
"No," Bender told The Athletic, in an interview published Thursday, when asked if he gave away pitches to opposing batters. "And I'll live with this until the day I die. I never gave pitches away. I never tried to give the opposing team an advantage against my own team."
Bender, a sixth-round draft pick out of Coastal Carolina in July, was playing for the Fort Myers Mighty Mussels, the Twins' Single-A affiliate.