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Considering the fact that the list of pitchers that have been unable to play this season as a result of arm injuries, it’s rather surprising that not one team has signed Trevor Bauer.
As of April 9, less than two weeks into the Major League Baseball season, there were over 130 pitchers who were unable to play or were just returning from arm injuries, including names like Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole, Walker Buehler, Spencer Strider, Shohei Ohtani, Jacob DeGrom, Sandy Alcantara, Lucas Giolito, Clayton Kershaw and Shane Bieber.
Surely, there was a team out there that could have used Trevor Bauer’s services this year, right?
All he has done this summer is go 10-0 with 120 strikeouts in 83.1 innings with a 1.044 WHIP for Diablos Rojos of the Mexican Baseball League after spending a year in Japan going 11-4 with a 2.59 ERA.
If there was a pitcher putting up those numbers in Triple-A, he would have been called up months ago. So why is Trevor Bauer still on the outside looking in, especially since he publicly offered to play for the Major League minimum salary?
According to him, “it’s an MLB decision.”
“One team told me I was ‘too expensive’ even though I offered to play for minimum, another team told us they have covered some stuff up in the past that they don’t want the media digging into to find out about,” Bauer claimed on Tuesday in a thread on X (Twitter).
Bauer added, “We’ve heard from multiple sources that I needed to sit out this year again and I’d be allowed back next year. So we will see.”
In response to a fan’s comment, he wrote, “This whole process has been bull s—. Apparently someone can make up a bunch of lies about you, you prove they’re false, and then you still lose everything. How this is possible is beyond me, but I guess that’s what society has chosen to accept these days.”
Responding to another fan, Bauer wrote, “Guilty until proven innocent and then still treated as guilty. It’s alright. Cancel culture eats itself eventually. The do-nothing drains on society that perpetrated this fraud have to live with being themselves the rest of their pathetic lives, which probably sucks way more than anything I’ve been through.”
“Since when does MLB have say over who a team signs & employs?” another fan asked.
“That’s a great question about MLB,” Bauer replied. “It shouldn’t be their decision but apparently in certain cases it is… And all your coaches and players agree with that but… they’ve been told…”