A fascinating interview from a couple years ago IMO.
It’s in podcast form. An interview by baseball writer Jeff Passan. HERE
Great for any team to land him, just wish it wasn't the blue. I am amused as some look at his body of work in total and criticize his contract. In looking at his progression and novel approach to improving his craft, to me the contract is well justified. If he is able to stay healthy and not post something that will distract the team and sport, he will be part of a rotation that can make the 98 Braves or 71 Orioles look like a joke.
Like most baseball fans I'm a little bit fickle.
I was ready to welcome Trevor and his baggage to Citi Field.
But now that he's a member of the best rotation in baseball, I'll be watching carefully to see if I can spot where he's hiding the sticky stuff that gave his spin rate such a big bump in 2020.
Pretty bad allegations against Bauer. Hopefully it is not as bad as it looks to be in the athletic article.
It's going to be difficult to spin that one.
@Dominik85 posted:Pretty bad allegations against Bauer. Hopefully it is not as bad as it looks to be in the athletic article.
Innocent until proven guilty.
@RoadRunner posted:Innocent until proven guilty.
Depends on the subject matter, doesn’t it?!?
A person may have a longer career being found guilty in court than cancel culture. If cancel culture gets you you’re done.
This should be a cautionary lesson to every young player - you just might be the smartest person in the room but nothing good can come from hooking up with some strange off the internet who's into freak time. How did he not see this ending up this way?
Best case now - he pays a huge settlement to get her to drop the charges and go away.
Worst case now - they open a case and he gets a year or more suspension from MLB. Manfred would jump at the chance to bury him.
@JCG posted:It's going to be difficult to spin that one.
Underrated post. Best I've seen in a while.
@RoadRunner posted:Innocent until proven guilty.
In the legal system, yes. Ray Rice was not convicted of the domestic violence charges against him, but he never played another game in the NFL.
@Francis7 posted:This should be a cautionary lesson to every young player - you just might be the smartest person in the room but nothing good can come from hooking up with some strange off the internet who's into freak time. How did he not see this ending up this way?
Best case now - he pays a huge settlement to get her to drop the charges and go away.
Worst case now - they open a case and he gets a year or more suspension from MLB. Manfred would jump at the chance to bury him.
This wasn't a strange woman he found off the internet. She is a former UCLA gymnast and law student.
She was his AGENT!
Wonder if any of you have seen the pictures of her.
Wait, are you saying Rachel Luba was the accuser?
@TPM posted:This wasn't a strange woman he found off the internet. She is a former UCLA gymnast and law student.
She was his AGENT!
Wonder if any of you have seen the pictures of her.
Wait - WHAT??!!
Rachel Luba is his agent and she is standing by him. News accounts say the accuser is a woman he met several months back on Instagram and has only been with twice.
Luba has also been rumored to be his GF so maybe that's the source of your confusion? Or is there something I am missing.
@JCG posted:Wait - WHAT??!!
Rachel Luba is his agent and she is standing by him. News accounts say the accuser is a woman he met several months back on Instagram and has only been with twice.
Luba has also been rumored to be his GF so maybe that's the source of your confusion? Or is there something I am missing.
Wait you are correct. She is/was his girlfriend and agent. He met the girl on the internet. The article I read wasn't really clear. Should have read the Atlantic. I really didn't pay much attention to this whole thing until I came across an article.
Regardless, he really needs to face the music. Enough with making excuses. No suspension.
If he were a football player he would be gone.
So for the misinformation. I think I was so angry I didn't read the entire article.
The heavy article sheds a lot of details from both the accuser and Bauer through texts.
@2022NYC posted:The heavy article sheds a lot of details from both the accuser and Bauer through texts.
Wow. I wish I had not read that.
I must be a little confused on the timeline in that article. Let me see if I have this right, he choked beat and sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious on their first meeting. She left the next day, they continued to communicate for a couple of weeks and she then came back to his house voluntarily to have consensual relations and he again choked and assaulted her? Am I reading this right?
I am going to reserve judgement until all of the facts are out because something here is just off a little.
There are obviously many people in these days who are into bdsm practices (especially after the shades of Grey movies) but even if she did ask for bdsm practices that still doesn't mean he can go off and seriously hurt a person.
@TPM posted:Wait you are correct. She is/was his girlfriend and agent. He met the girl on the internet. The article I read wasn't really clear. Should have read the Atlantic. I really didn't pay much attention to this whole thing until I came across an article.
Regardless, he really needs to face the music. Enough with making excuses. No suspension.
If he were a football player he would be gone.
So for the misinformation. I think I was so angry I didn't read the entire article.
Face the music how? He immediately came out and defended his innocence. Despite a very uncomfortable and graphic read, it seems like he has some pretty compelling evidence of his own.
If he did it, he's scum. If he didn't do it, he has no reason to cave.
In the NFL he would be suspended, cut, and end up signing with a contender as soon as his suspension was over.