Dodgers Release Trevor Bauer, Will Eat Most of Contract

Is Shohei Ohtani the first domino to fall in Anaheim? Following Ohtani's record-breaking $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, attention has shifted to what the Angels could do with star center fielder Mike Trout. According to BetOnline, at+300, the Philadelphia Phillies have the shortest odds to acquire Trout in a trade. With that in…

By mid-July, every contender has pretty much summoned the prospects they feel can best help a playoff drive. Then the trade deadline arrives and with it the last chance to externally improve a roster - unless some unheralded waiver claim leaps out of nowhere. So the last meaningful way for a roster to improve is the return of injured players. There…

Bauer, who made his MLB debut with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2012, has a career record of 83-69 with a 3.79 ERA with 1416 strikeouts in 1297⅔ innings (222 games). The North Hollywood, California, native hasn't pitched in MLB since June 2021, his first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers. MLB placed Bauer on leave in July 2021 after allegations of…

Trevor Bauer is officially a free agent. This is the stance the Cardinals should take on baseball's biggest pariah. There's no need to come out and say it. Just show it. No thanks. Nothing to see here. Moving on. Yes, the Cardinals need more quality starting pitching, whether they want to admit it or not. They should still trade for a proven arm…

After this story first broke last Friday, the Los Angeles Dodgers have now made it official. Trevor Bauer will no longer be a Dodger after his release from the team went through today. The former Red passed through waivers unclaimed and is now a free agent with the ability to return for the 2023 season. This move was expected after an independent…

Trevor Bauer become a free agent on Thursday, but the market will be a lot more hostile toward the 2020 National League Cy Young Award winner than it was two winters ago, when Bauer signed a three-year, $102-million deal with the Dodgers after turning down a lucrative offer from the New York Mets. "The only guy who I know for sure would sign him is…

First shortstop Carlos Correa was going to leave the Minnesota Twins to sign a 13-year, $350 million contract with the San Francisco Giants. But concerns over Correa's earlier ankle injury prompted the Giants to back out of the deal after setting up the news conference to announce it. Awkward! That prompted billionaire fanboy Steve Cohen to swoop…

The Dodgers designated Trevor Bauer for assignment and will have a week to trade him before he can be officially released. Jeff talks about the decision, what it means, and responds to Ken Rosenthal's opinion on how the Dodgers handled the situation. Lastly, Justin Turner officially signed with the Red Sox which led to the official tributes on…

By not taking a gamble on any of this offseason's top free agents, the Dodgers instead placed one very big, very high-stakes bet on something else. Themselves. That's perhaps the best way to summarize the club's winter activity, in which the Dodgers made themselves an outlier among Major League Baseball's large-market teams by not making any…

The Dodgers bet on Trevor Bauer once, and they lost. They weren't about to double down on the dumbest wager they've ever placed. Starting the process to end their affiliation with Bauer won't absolve them of their original mistake, however. Whether they release or trade him in the coming days, they will continue paying for the decision to sign him…

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Trevor Bauer once told me that he and his sister used to write poems to his mother. His father would make the words rhyme for them. One time a reporter from another city asked me if Bauer would talk to him about pitching. I told him Bauer would talk forever on the subject... and he did. When the Indians acquired Bauer from…

The Los Angeles Dodgers are still in a position to compete despite their quiet offseason. But they could drastically increase their World Series odds by pulling the trigger on a high-profile trade. The MLB trade market has moved fairy slow for the most part with the exception of a few deals. With that being said, could the Dodgers stun the MLB…

Trevor Bauer of the Los Angeles Dodgers had his suspension reduced Thursday, Juan Toribio of MLB.com reports. MLB releases a statement regarding Trevor Bauer. His 324-game suspension has been reduced to 194 games. He has already served that amount of games, so he is reinstated. pic.twitter.com/niuQVx16tv - Juan Toribio (@juanctoribio) December 23,…

George Kurtz Trevor Bauer of the Los Angeles Dodgers had his suspension reduced Thursday, Juan Toribio of MLB.com reports. Bauer was initially suspended for 324 games (two seasons) for violating the league's domestic violence policy. The suspension was reduced to 194 games by a neutral arbitrator. This means he is eligible for immediate…

One of the biggest things that happened throughout the course of last MLB season was the fact that Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher and former NL Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer was suspended for 324 games, and that was reduced to 194 games by an independent arbitrator. What does that mean? Well, Bauer is now officially reinstated and can…

If you hung out on the Twitter machine Sunday night, there was an interesting rumor concerning the Mets. After watching Jacob deGrom sign with the Texas Rangers late last week, New York's focus turned to Justin Verlander and Carlos Rodon. While the Yankees appear to be ramping up their pursuit of Rodon, the Mets have been attempting to reel in…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Former Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer has been suspended for two full seasons by Commissioner Rob Manfred for violating MLB's Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy. It is the longest suspension handed out under the policy. Bauer, who last pitched for the Dodgers on June 28 of last season, plans to appeal the…

The Post's Mark W. Sanchez previews the NL West O/U wins: 97.5 Key player: Mookie Betts. For the Dodgers to be historically great - which is a real possibility - they could use their $365 million man in peak form. The right fielder was merely very good (.854 OPS) but not great last season, and the lineup is even more ludicrous with the addition of…

For eight seasons, the Los Angeles Dodgers dominated the NL West, winning an average of 96 games in full seasons and winning the division each year from 2013 through 2020 by an average of 8.5 games. But all that winning produced just one championship - the "bubble" title won following the 60-game pandemic schedule in 2020. The San Francisco Giants…

Baseball season has finally arrived. After an unordinary and shortened season in 2020 due to Covid-19, the MLB will return to a more familiar form (fingers crossed) in 2021. With the 2021 MLB Opening Day here, let's take a look at some of the odds, including the World Series odds favorites. It should come as no surprise that the odds on favorite to…

The Reds, last in the NL Central every year from 2015 to 2018, began pushing their chips to the middle of the table with the trade deadline acquisition of Trevor Bauer in 2019. After the 2019 season, they added free agent infielder Mike Moustakas, outfielder Nick Castellanos, and Japanese import Shogo Akiyama. The moves resulted in the team's first…

The 2021 Major League Baseball season is scheduled to begin on April Fool's Day, but it's no joke that the Cleveland Indians will not have their best player by then. USA Today's Bob Nightengale was the first to report Thursday that the cost-conscious Tribe intend to trade superstar shortstop Francisco Lindor this offseason. SportsLine has odds on…

The Cleveland Indians entered the 2019 season as a near-lock to play in October, and for good reason. They were coming off three straight AL Central titles, plus a trip to the World Series in 2016 and a 22-game winning streak in 2017, while three of their division competitors (Detroit, Chicago, and Kansas City) were mired in rebuilds, and the…