Three hours and 58 minutes after Major League Baseball announced it had suspended him for a record two full seasons for violating its domestic violence policy, Trevor Bauer uploaded his 426th vlog. Titled “I’m Staying Ready To Pitch, See You Soon!,” it shows him kayaking, attending a hockey game and working out. At one point he throws a bullpen session and pronounces himself happy with the results. “Maybe [MLB commissioner Rob] Manfred will at some point let me play again,” he crows. “I’m ready whenever he does!”
If Bauer’s appeal of the suspension is unsuccessful, that day will not come before April 2024. He will be 33 years old and nearly three years removed from his last major league pitch. Bauer, 31, has spent the last decade—when he was not having sex that, at a minimum, made some of the women involved feel violated—seeking fame. He has tweeted and vlogged and sold merchandise emblazoned with his logo. He won a Cy Young award, in 2020, and signed a record contract for a pitcher, with the Dodgers, in ’21. And now, as soon as the Dodgers make the obvious move and cut him, he will be unemployed. Fans should make the obvious move, too: Let’s never think about this person again.
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