Trevor Bauer is not going to report back to Camelback Ranch this week. The Dodgers pitcher will begin this spring the identical means he completed final season: on depart, whereas Main League Baseball continues what's now an eight-month investigation into sexual assault allegations towards him.
The depart extends via March 19 and may be prolonged via settlement of the league and the gamers’ union.
Though Bauer was cleared final month of prison prices, the league retains the proper to droop him for violating its coverage on sexual assault. Commissioner Rob Manfred is anticipated to take action.
The league didn't deal with participant enterprise throughout the lockout. The league is now anticipated to pursue an interview with Bauer, offering him with data from its investigation and providing him an opportunity to reply.
Of the 15 gamers beforehand suspended underneath the coverage, all have accepted a settlement by which they agreed to not attraction. Bauer maintains he did nothing improper and shouldn't be suspended. He might attraction any suspension to an arbitrator, who might uphold, shorten, or reject a suspension.
Manfred additionally has the choice to let the Dodgers make the choice on any self-discipline.
On Friday, Bauer retweeted a report that a grand jury had declined to indict Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson on sexual assault allegations. Bauer later retweeted a publish from Watson: “Once you stand on the TRUTH, the LORD will FREE you!”
On Wednesday, he retweeted a report that singer Chris Brown had threatened to sue a girl who had accused him of rape, saying voice mails and textual content messages proved their encounter was consensual.
On Thursday, after the lockout ended, Bauer tweeted an image of himself yelling joyfully, along with his tweet saying: “Response when baseball is again. About rattling time”. Within the image, he was carrying a Cincinnati Reds uniform.
Bauer didn't play for the Dodgers within the second half of final season however acquired his full $38 million wage and signing bonus as a result of gamers on depart are paid. Bauer is due $32 million this season; gamers usually are not paid throughout spring coaching.
Bauer was accused of sexual assault by a San Diego girl final June, in a petition in search of a restraining order towards him. A Los Angeles Superior Court docket decide denied the restraining order final August, ruling there was no proof Bauer would “hurt and even have contact” along with her and saying she had been “materially deceptive” within the petition.
The Los Angeles County district lawyer’s workplace final month declined to file prison prices towards Bauer. The official type of declination stated Bauer was investigated for “assault by means prone to trigger nice bodily hurt, sodomy of a sleeping individual and home violence.”
After a overview of the restraining order proceedings, witness statements, and bodily proof, the district lawyer’s workplace stated it couldn't show the fees past an affordable doubt.
Bauer then launched a video known as “The Reality,” by which he stated the reality was this: “Whereas we did have consensual tough intercourse, the disturbing acts and conduct she described merely didn't happen.”
He since has requested the Pasadena police division to offer cellphone data that his attorneys argued in courtroom filings might “present proof of a plan to destroy [Bauer’s] status and profession and to earn a big paycheck by making false and deceptive allegations.”
The girl’s lawyer has requested that the subpoena served on the Pasadena police be thrown out, calling the hassle to acquire her telephone data “a technique to proceed harassing and disturbing” the girl six months after she was denied a restraining order towards him.
A listening to on that situation is ready April 4.
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