Man, nothing with Trevor Bauer is ever easy, is it? After the Dodgers designated Bauer for task on Friday, Bauer launched a press release that had an attention-grabbing declare in it.
“Following two weeks of conversations round my return to the group, I sat down with Dodgers management in Arizona yesterday who instructed me that they needed me to return and pitch for the group this 12 months.”
In case you missed it, that is Bauer saying, moments after Los Angeles DFA’d him, that “Dodgers management” instructed him a day earlier that they needed him to pitch for them this 12 months — one thing they may management fully just by including him to their roster.
Yeah, it sounds bizarre — and Alden Gonzalez of ESPN stories that the Dodgers are disputing Bauer’s account.
In a press release, Bauer claimed that the Dodgers at that time expressed a need for him to pitch for them in 2023 — a declare refuted by a group supply acquainted with the assembly. [emphasis added]
There are a pair prospects right here. Bauer’s assertion is imprecise — maybe the “Dodgers management” who needed him again are completely different folks than the decision-makers who reduce him on Friday?
Or possibly L.A.’s management instructed Bauer they’d carry him again beneath sure parameters — like, for instance, him taking duty for his suspension — and he wasn’t keen to make these concessions to stick with the group.
These are simply speculations, as a result of all we will do is speculate when Bauer makes imprecise claims in a press release and an insider vaguely tells us these claims have been refuted.
Including to Gonzalez’s report, USA Immediately’s Bob Nightengale shared what he had heard from officers who spoke off the document.
Dodger officers declined to enter particulars of their dialog (with Bauer), however privately revealed that they didn’t hear any regret, apologies or something within the slightest from Bauer to vary their thoughts. They reconvened in Los Angeles, and determined Friday morning that Bauer would by no means once more placed on a Dodger uniform.…Two Dodgers officers vehemently denied to USA TODAY Sports activities that they conveyed these sentiments to Bauer.
Bauer is in roster limbo for the following week because the Dodgers attempt to commerce him, after which, a technique or one other, for higher or for worse, he and L.A. can be finished with one another and this chapter of the drama can be over.
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