MLB extends Trevor Bauer’s absence from Dodgers after lockout

Because the MLB lockout was lifted Thursday and gamers starting to report back to spring coaching this weekend, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer gained’t be amongst them.

Main League Baseball and the MLB Gamers Affiliation agreed to increase Bauer’s administrative depart for an additional seven days — from March 13 to March 19 — stopping the right-handed pitcher from reporting to the Dodgers’ spring coaching facility, ESPN reviews.

Administrative depart, on this case, is a non-disciplinary measure that ensures a participant his wage and repair time whereas investigations proceed for a further 10 days. OutKick beforehand reported the league first put Bauer on paid depart on July 2 beneath the joint home violence, sexual assault and baby abuse coverage. It was introduced he can be out for the rest of the season in September 2021.

Bauer spent the ultimate months of the 2021 common season on administrative depart — whereas contesting sexual assault allegations that surfaced in June 2021 that he and his attorneys denied — and nonetheless faces potential self-discipline from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, who can droop gamers beneath the home violence coverage.

Final month, the Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned the 31-year-old pitcher is not going to face any legal costs within the county’s courtroom system.

Bauer posted a video to YouTube titled “The Reality,” shortly after the ruling by the DA’s workplace was made.

“I’m not this particular person this lady, her attorneys, and sure members of the media have painted me to be,” he mentioned within the video.

On this June 6, 2021, file photograph, Los Angeles Dodgers beginning pitcher Trevor Bauer delivers within the first inning of a baseball sport in opposition to the Atlanta Braves in Atlanta. (AP Photograph/Brynn Anderson, File)

The conclusion of the legal investigation — which got here greater than 5 months after an L.A. decide dismissed the girl’s request for a restraining order — allowed the league to interview Bauer, however on the time, the lockout amid ongoing negotiations with the MLBPA over a brand new collective bargaining settlement sophisticated issues.

ESPN reviews the league has not but interviewed Bauer or mentioned potential suspensions due to the 99-day lockout, which was lifted Thursday.

Bauer signed a three-year, $102 million contract with the Dodgers in February 2021 — he completed the season with an 8-5 document in 17 begins, with 137 strikeouts and 37 walks, and an ERA of two.59, in 107 2/3 innings.

ESPN reviews Bauer made his full $38 million wage in 2021 regardless of spending half the season on administrative depart and may make as much as $47 million in 2022.

Los Angeles Dodgers beginning pitcher Trevor Bauer reacts to a pitch name throughout the fourth inning of the crew’s baseball sport in opposition to the San Francisco Giants, Friday, Might 21, 2021, in San Francisco. (AP Photograph/D. Ross Cameron)

Earlier than figuring out the pitcher had been positioned again on administrative depart, Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts was requested whether or not the pitcher can be in camp and didn’t rule out the likelihood.

“I don’t need to utterly shut the door on him doubtlessly being in spring coaching as a result of I simply don’t know sufficient,” Roberts mentioned, per ESPN.