Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post
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Bauer still does not have a MLB team for 2024, despite pitching well last year in Korea, and despite looking good in a game against a minor league Dodgers team (he was playing on an independent team).

It does look like the league is simply blackballing him at this point, despite it being fairly clear he was set up:

https://twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1767251426194210928



This is actually worse than the situation with Yasiel Puig, who also was set up by a woman with false allegations. The difference here is that Puig had already run himself out of the league between bad behavior and mediocre play. Even without that scandal, teams were kind of done with Puig and his distractions.

Bauer is also known to be a distraction (even before this matter), but he seems to be a lot more valuable than Puig was at the time his career fell apart. Imagine getting a pitcher of Bauer's caliber for the MLB minimum? Small market teams should be jumping on this.

I think there's an unofficial agreement among owners to just let Bauer go, because the sport doesn't want to bring him back and then look awful when one of the other allegations against him turns out ot be credible. It's very tough to explain to fans, "Well, yeah, THIS woman seems to have been a crackpot who set Bauer up, and their rough sex was totally consensual, and she probably hurt herself on purpose after she left him. Why are other women also coming forward with similar allegations against Bauer? Uhh.... we'll get back to you on that!"
I recognize you desperately want to make Bauer a poster boy for some kind of anti-woke cause. Or perhaps somehow salvage how badly you whiffed on your original Bauer prognostication.

Here are the facts. Bauer is a freak and a weird dude. General managers could ignore this as Andrew Friedman did and suffer as the Dodgers did. They won’t.

Bauer also is not gonna be a locker room or fan favorite. Mothers just arent gonna be excited about their 9 year old sons leaning over the bullpen trying to get Bauer’s attention.

Jersey sales aren’t gonna make up for the risk exposure either.

No words were spoken. What you are witnessing from GM’s is just a collective cringe and no small measure of sound career insurance.
Still interesting to me how there was a huge market for DeShaun Watson the moment teams learned he wouldn't be charged. Franchise QB is a much more salient position than some pitcher, and it doesnt seem to matter much now.

Being weird and freaky, choking and punching vaginas seems to be much more of a headache to deal with than 20+ accusations of what was largely termed misconduct.

And honestly there's probably more that teams uncovered ahout him. He does seem like a huge faggot though.