Trevor Bauer has been banned from baseball for two further calendar years for his rampant sexual assault record. He gets no credit for time served.
He is appealing.
He will not pitch for the Dodgers again under his current contract. He will be eligible to play again in 324 games, meaning about a month (the Dodgers have played 18 games) into the 2024 season, but his contract with the Dodgers only extends through 2023.
Of the 3-year, $110M contract he signed with the Dodgers, he gets just over a season. The fraud by Bauer gets him about $50,000,000 from the Dodgers.
He is the sixteenth MLB player, and by far the longest suspension, under the domestic violence policy.
It is believed this is the longest suspension in history.
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Son, IF you ever pitch again in MLB, be lucky that this was only under the domestic violence policy.
Because, between that and the basically known record that you were peddling illegal foreign substances and the like, you should be banned for life under Best Interests of Baseball.
I do have a feeling that if he ever pitches again in professional baseball, it will be in another country. And, sadly, I think he will dominate in any league he pitches, sans MLB and maybe Japan.
IF he ever gets another MLB stint, it will not be with a contending team. No one is going to want to deal with that who has any degree of serious intent of winning a World Series.
But the fact is, he should never pitch again -- and, barring something we don't know, that the guy is walking around is yet another example of the necessity of crime for the sustenance and sustaining of American sport.
Do I believe that the Bauer signing was part of why Manfred has been fucking the Dodgers except for COVID year? Not really, though it is probably one on the list of a more general over-spending motif.
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And thanks to my anonymous baseball-fan friend, we now have word of a third accuser whom Bauer choked unconscious... (With note that one of the reasons justifying the two year suspension was that MLB found NUMEROUS others...)
There is a third Trevor Bauer accuser, per the Washington Post.
— Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin) April 29, 2022
"The first time Trevor Bauer choked her unconscious without her consent, in 2013, a woman in Columbus, Ohio, said, all she remembered afterward was waking up on the floor of his bathroom."https://t.co/OhoWyTrGph
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