Trevor Bauer

@RJM posted:

Four women have made sexual assault claims against Bauer. There’s more than this one woman to the big story. It’s likely going to take a desperate team willing to risk a PR hit for Bauer to get back in the majors.

Four women with no evidence to support their story, claimed that Bauer may have assaulted them in the past.

My biggest complaint with this story, is the lack of follow-up by the "journalist" and publications that were very quick to assume Bauer's guilt.   The same journalist are no where to be found when he present overwhelming evidence to the contrary.   The info he produced in the video is sickening to hear.   

All I care about is what the MLB investigation and arbitrator came up with in their investigation that made them suspend him. Obviously a player doesn't need to be found guilty in a court of law for the league to take action. I don't believe the league which doesn't have subpoena power would have access to those txts.

I agree that because of who he is and his previous history, he's not exactly beloved in the league. But I'd have to think something came up in their investigation came up for them to suspend him for that length of time, and I don't think the Dodgers would basically throw money down the drain to release him.

I don't think this is over. I wouldn't be surprised if details from MLB's investigation start to leak at some point.

@Ster posted:

Four women with no evidence to support their story, claimed that Bauer may have assaulted them in the past.

My biggest complaint with this story, is the lack of follow-up by the "journalist" and publications that were very quick to assume Bauer's guilt.   The same journalist are no where to be found when he present overwhelming evidence to the contrary.   The info he produced in the video is sickening to hear.   

Four issues. Chances are where there’s smoke there’s at least a PR problem. Four women didn’t just randomly select Bauer as a target.

@RJM posted:

Four issues. Chances are where there’s smoke there’s at least a PR problem. Four women didn’t just randomly select Bauer as a target.

That’s true. But if someone was trying to orchestrate the end of Bauer’s career they would arrange to have multiple women make allegations to add weight to it. I can’t say for sure that’s the case but it’s certainly possible.

Well yes of course they didn't randomly select him. They all made their claims after he signed the highest AAV contract in MLB history. No claims when he was a lowly arbitration-eligible player.

@nycdad posted:

All I care about is what the MLB investigation and arbitrator came up with in their investigation that made them suspend him. Obviously a player doesn't need to be found guilty in a court of law for the league to take action. I don't believe the league which doesn't have subpoena power would have access to those txts.

I agree that because of who he is and his previous history, he's not exactly beloved in the league. But I'd have to think something came up in their investigation came up for them to suspend him for that length of time, and I don't think the Dodgers would basically throw money down the drain to release him.

I don't think this is over. I wouldn't be surprised if details from MLB's investigation start to leak at some point.

I have many questions about this situations.

1) Like you, I would love to see the evidence that MLB used to base the two year suspension.  Did they have access to some of the information that Bauer presented in his video?   Did they simply rely on the statements and accusations from Lindsey Hill?   

2) I would like to know why the MLB demanded a two year suspension for Bauer and yet only a 20 game suspension for Aroldis Chapman when there was actual evidence supporting the charges against Chapman.

3)  I would like to know why there wasn't a single MLB team (all of which need pitchers) that was willing to sign a former Cy Young award winner to even a minor league deal?  There are a long list of players that have had punishments handed down due to the MLB policy against domestic violence.  Aroldis Chapman, Marcell Ozuna, Domingo German, Roberto Osuna, Julio Urias, and a handful of other players faced similar accusations and were suspended, but had no problem continuing their playing careers.   What is it about Bauer that has a former Cy Young winner essentially blacklisted from MLB baseball teams.   

4) I would like to know why reputable MLB writers that were quick to villainize Bauer at the time of the suspension have no interest in taking up this story today when all of the evidence makes it clear that Bauer was the victim of a scam for money?   

@auberon posted:

Well yes of course they didn't randomly select him. They all made their claims after he signed the highest AAV contract in MLB history. No claims when he was a lowly arbitration-eligible player.

Then he was seen as a vulnerable, easy target based on his behavior. A lot of athletes are making a lot of money and aren’t targets.

@Ster posted:

I have many questions about this situations...

If the courts did not have any evidence from Hill that means MLB did not either. So yeah, maybe they didn't have the power to subpoena texts, but it also means they were taking the word of (at the very least) an unreliable character instead of using hard evidence - which as we've come to find out is important especially when you put it into the context of his career trajectory. The exact reason MLB should stay out of these types of things - not because they were misguided, but because they don't actually have a clue and it's based on whichever side tells a more compelling story. Which is the public going to side with? Misguided young girl looking for love on the short end of a power dynamic or known internet troll with a penchant for acting out and not falling in line.