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Aces Gerrit Cole, Justin Verlander, and Max Scherzer are among numerous well-known pitchers to have been implicated as using a grip-enhancing substance by former Angels clubhouse attendant Bubba Harkins in a lawsuit against the team and Major League Baseball that accuses them of making him a scapegoat.
Harkins, who was fired last March as the league started to crack down on the use of foreign substances, filed a text message from Cole as evidence in “opposition to a request to dismiss the original lawsuit submitted by Harkins’ attorneys in August,” according to ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez.