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Bob Melvin was suspicious of dugout camera in Houston for years, says ex-A’s All-Star

Years before the Astros’ intricate sign-stealing operation ever came to light, A’s manager Bob Melvin always seemed a little suspicious of a dugout camera in Houston, according to one of his former players.

Ex-A’s All-Star pitcher Sonny Gray revealed in a podcast Thursday that Melvin was proactive in making sure nothing out of the ordinary was going on in his own dugout at Minute Maid Park.

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“When I was in Oakland and we’d always go there, I just thought about this, they had a camera facing in the dugout right when you walk in there,” Gray said on C.