Is This Premier Pitcher Barred from Major League Baseball Because He Supports Trump?

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Trevor Bauer won the Cy Young Award in 2020, but he hasn’t pitched in the major leagues since 2021. He is 34 years old now, but he won ten games and lost none and had a 2.48 ERA in the Mexican League last year, and would likely still do well against major league hitters. Yet he is not being given a chance. Now a Republican congressman has written to MLB’s woke top dog Rob Manfred, suggesting that the major-league freezeout of Trevor Bauer has to do for his support of a certain Orange Man who currently lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

OutKick reported Thursday that Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) wrote to Manfred: “Mr. Bauer was suspended for 324 games; the longest non-lifetime suspension in the history of the league – despite the fact that the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office declined to pursue criminal charges against him, citing insufficient evidence.” Burlison also “noted that the league eventually reduced the suspension to 194 games, after Bauer was cleared by the judicial system, but suggested that Manfred and MLB are trying to keep him out of the league, ‘effectively making his 194-game suspension a lifetime one.’”

Bauer was suspended because four women accused him of sexual assault. The pitcher denied it all and contended in one woman’s case, he and the woman had a “single, consensual sexual encounter,” after which she claimed she was pregnant and said she would get an abortion if he paid her $1.6 million. Bauer paid her $8,000 for the abortion, and alleges that the woman “fabricated her pregnancy to try and extort him for money.” Tawdry, yes. But baseball players are not chosen for their sterling moral character. Is this behavior worth a lifetime suspension from baseball?

Bauer’s principal accuser’s case went down in flames when it was revealed that she wrote to a friend: “Next victim. Star pitcher for the Dodgers.” She detailed her enthusiasm about getting a substantial share of Bauer’s fortune, explaining that she was “being an absolute whore to try to get in on his $51 million.”

The icing on the cake was that she claimed he had beaten her, but Bauer pointed out that in a video she made on the morning she left Bauer’s house, she appears happy and unhurt. Yet Manfred and MLB appear determined to throw Bauer to the wolves despite the spectacular discrediting of one of his accusers. Burlison suggested what could be behind it: “In 2016, Mr. Bauer publicly expressed positive views about then-candidate Donald J. Trump, including comments on social media praising Trump’s campaign rhetoric and outsider status.”

Bauer had even dared to decline to burn incense to the left’s most cherished gods: “Additionally, Mr. Bauer, in responding to a social media post, noted his belief that disrespecting fellow human beings should not be tolerated, which was taken as an opposition to MLB’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.”

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