Baseball
Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer suspended 324 games
(New York) Major League Baseball has finally ruled on the Trevor Bauer case: the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher has been suspended for 324 games for violating circuit policy against domestic violence and sexual assault.
Unlike the administrative leave he has been on since July 2, Bauer will not receive salary during the suspension, which begins this Friday and also includes playoff games.
On Twitter, Bauer has already indicated his intention to appeal the suspension.
“In the clearest possible terms, I continue to deny that I have in any way violated the domestic violence and sexual assault policy,” Bauer wrote. I am appealing this decision and hope to win. As we have done since the beginning of this process, my representatives and I respect your confidentiality. »
If the suspension is upheld, Bauer will lose approximately $60 million in salary.
This suspension is the most severe one imposed by MLB under this policy. The former, lasting a season and playoffs, was imposed on pitcher and free agent Sam Dyson in 2021.
The policy was implemented in 2015 and allows Commissioner Rob Manfred to suspend a player if the “cause is just”.
Earlier this week, Bauer filed a lawsuit against his accuser and one of his lawyers, Niranjan Fred Tiagarajah, as defendants. The Associated Press does not usually identify alleged victims of sexual assault.
The suit believes the “harm to Mr. Bauer is extreme” following the woman’s allegations. She claims he strangled her unconscious, in addition to hitting her and having anal sex with her without her consent on two dates in the past year.
Bauer admitted that both partners engaged in violent sex at the woman’s suggestion and followed a previously agreed code of conduct between them. Each date ended harmoniously and the woman spent the night at his house each time, he said.
This lawsuit by Bauer was filed in federal court less than three months after California prosecutors decided not to file criminal charges against the pitcher.
They failed to prove the allegations of this woman, whom Bauer met on social media, beyond a reasonable doubt, the Los Angeles County Attorney General said in a document released at the conclusion of its investigation.
In a statement, the Dodgers said they take any allegations of domestic violence or sexual assault very seriously. The organization recalls that it has offered its full and complete cooperation to the Major League Baseball investigation and that it respects the commissioner’s decision, adding that it will not comment further until the appeals procedures are completed.
Bauer has been removed from pay since July 2 due to allegations that it violates the MLB and MLBPA’s domestic violence and sexual harassment policies.
Major League Baseball and the players union have agreed to successively extend this license since then. Bauer’s agents, Jon Fetterolf and Rachel Luba, have repeatedly said that an administrative leave is not a disciplinary sanction. This is no longer the case with this suspension.
Bauer hasn’t released since June 29. He was 8-2 with a 2.59 ERA in 17 games in his first season with the Dodgers. He earned $28 million last season, the first of three under the $102 million contract he signed after earning his first Cy-Young with the Cincinnati Reds in 2020.
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