Former NL Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer is finalizing a one-year deal with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of the Nippon Professional Baseball league, based on ESPN’s Jeff Passan.
Having just lately turned 32 and solely three years faraway from profitable a Cy Young Award with the Cincinnati Reds, Bauer would nonetheless conceivably have a number of good years of pitching left. It was reported in Jan. 2022 that a number of MLB groups with a possible beginning pitching want would not be pursuing the controversial righty although.
The Los Angeles Dodgers had been unable to discover a commerce associate for the one-time All-Star this winter, which led to his launch two months in the past. The Dodgers owe Bauer his remaining wage of $22.5 million in 2023 however would’ve saved the most important league minimal of $720,000 if one other team had signed him.
The 2011 third-overall draft decide hasn’t pitched since June 2021, when he first confronted sexual assault allegations.
In April 2022, MLB handed down an unprecedented 324-game suspension for violation of the league’s home violence coverage. Per ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez, Bauer appealed the choice, and what adopted was a “seven-month grievance process that ended with an independent arbitrator ruling Dec. 22 that Bauer’s suspension would be trimmed to 194 games and he would be reinstated immediately.”
After debuting with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2012 and pitching for Cleveland from 2013-19, he was traded to the Reds in July of that 12 months and signed with the Dodgers in Feb. 2021 on a three-year, $102 million contract.
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