Trevor Bauer is returning to skilled baseball, albeit in a vastly totally different league.
The former Cy Young Award winner has signed a contract to play for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league, per a report Monday. The Japan-based web site Sanspo.com reported the deal is for one yr and $4 million plus incentives. According to Monday’s report, the BayStars made the provide to Bauer after a cautious investigation and discussions.
Bauer, 32, was granted his unconditional launch by the Los Angeles Dodgers on January 12 after clearing waivers, making him a free agent. There apparently had been no takers within the main leagues, nevertheless.
He final pitched June 28, 2021, earlier than allegations of sexual assault surfaced. He was positioned on paid go away amid a Major League Baseball investigation, and he in the end obtained a report suspension for violating the league’s home violence coverage.
The Dodgers nonetheless owe Bauer the remaining $22.5 million on his contract.
Former Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer has signed a contract to play for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league, per a report Monday
View of Yokohama Stadium, the house area of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Naka-ku
Following the investigation, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred suspended Bauer for 2 full seasons final April over allegations made by a girl who claimed Bauer sexually assaulted her over two encounters. Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to file costs within the case.
On December 22 a impartial arbitrator reinstated Bauer, decreasing his punishment from 324 video games to 194 — masking 144 video games he was suspended for in 2022 and one other 50 video games of docked pay this coming season. Bauer was eligible to pitch instantly in 2023.
Bauer signed a three-year, $102 million contract with the Dodgers after profitable the 2020 National League Cy Young Award with the Cincinnati Reds.
In his solely season with the Dodgers, he completed 8-5 with a 2.59 ERA in 17 begins in 2021.
An All-Star in 2018, Bauer owns an 83-69 report with a 3.79 ERA in 222 profession appearances (212 begins) with the Arizona Diamondbacks, then-Cleveland Indians, Reds and Dodgers.
Bauer’s accuser, Lindsey Hill, claimed in her submitting that she consented to have intercourse with Bauer on two events, however mentioned he went overboard by punching her, chocking her unconscious, and sodomizing her with out her consent. This picture was beforehand offered by her lawyer
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer (left) has been sued for sexual battery by the lady who publicly accused him final yr of choking and punching her throughout two sexual encounters. The lawsuit is the newest chapter within the ongoing authorized battle between the suspended MLB star and Lindsey Hill (proper), who’s countersuing Bauer in a federal courthouse in Los Angeles in response to his defamation swimsuit in opposition to her filed in April
Bauer filed a defamation lawsuit in opposition to his accuser, Lindsey Hill, in April of 2022, solely to be countersued in August.
Hill, who was 27 when she says Bauer sexually assaulted her in April and May of 2021, is accusing Bauer of trying to silence her by suing her for defamation.
In her submitting, obtained by DailyMail.com, Hill seeks unspecified damages and reiterates accusations she made in opposition to Bauer in 2021.
‘Bauer has once more victimized Hill by leveraging his appreciable sources to file a meritless lawsuit primarily based on Hill’s train of her authorized rights in talking with the right authorities about what had occurred,’ learn her authorized submitting.
‘Bauer’s disgraceful message is evident: battered girls ought to stay silent, as a result of neither the police nor the courts will shield them from a wealthy man scorned.’
In a press release given to DailyMail.com, Shawn Holley and Jon Fetterolf – attorneys for Bauer – responded: ‘Lindsey Hill’s claims had been judicially disproven final August following a listening to relating to a DVRO petition filed in dangerous religion.
‘She ”materially misled” the court docket and couldn’t meet the bottom burden of proof in our justice system — as a result of her claims had been false. She is being sued for defamation to be held accountable for her lies and the injury it has brought about.
‘Her countersuit is a regurgitation of her judicially disproven claims and one more try by Ms. Hill to defame Mr. Bauer and search to revenue from her lies.’
Spectators watch the Yokohama DeNA BayStars vs Hanshin TigersA beseball recreation on the Yokohama Stadium, the Olympic baseball and softball venue, in Yokohama on November 1, 2020 after following security measures in opposition to the Covid-19 coronavirus
Hill, a San Diego native, was granted a brief restraining order in opposition to Bauer on June 28, 2021 after being handled for her accidents at hospital close to her house and giving a press release to police.
Her makes an attempt to acquire a everlasting restraining order in opposition to him right here denied and prosecutors in Los Angeles mentioned in February that they’d not pursue felony costs as a result of there was inadequate proof to show her claims past an affordable doubt.
Bauer has admitted the 2 had intercourse, however says each encounters had been ‘wholly consensual.’
According to Bauer’s lawsuit, reviewed by DailyMail.com, Hill ‘fabricated allegations of sexual assault’ with a purpose to create a ‘media blitz’ and ‘extract thousands and thousands of {dollars}’ from the state of affairs. The submitting mentioned ‘the injury to Mr. Bauer has been excessive’ after her declare that Bauer choked right here into unconsciousness, punched her a number of instances, and sodomized her with out her consent.
The former Cy Young Award winner was positioned on go away in 2021 after the allegations surfaced, and has since been given a 324-game suspension, which he’s interesting. MLB does have the autonomy to droop gamers with out felony convictions, as outlined within the league’s home violence coverage.
Hill is amongst three girls who’ve accused Bauer of sexual assault.
The LA County District Attorney’s workplace did not suppose it might show costs in opposition to Bauer
As the Washington Post uncovered in August of 2021, an Ohio lady had additionally tried to get a brief restraining order in opposition to Bauer in June of 2020, and police stories confirmed that she accused him of bodily assault in 2017 after receiving demise threats from the pitcher.
Then in April, the Post reported one other Ohio lady’s declare that Bauer had additionally choked her unconscious and sodomized her with out consent throughout his time with Cleveland’s minor league affiliate in Columbus, Ohio. She additionally shared screenshots of textual content messages with the Post, purportedly exhibiting Bauer telling her: ‘I need to f*** you whilst you’re utterly unconscious.’
Bauer has additionally denied these allegations.
In 2021, Bauer’s attorneys filed textual content messages between Hill and Bauer in addition to others between Hill and her cousin wherein she describes intercourse with their shopper as ‘consensual’ however mentioned he ‘took it too far’ by leaving her with black eyes.
In response to the discharge of the Hill’s textual content messages, her attorneys offered DailyMail.com with an unredacted picture of their shopper exhibiting the accidents she allegedly suffered consequently a sexual encounter with Bauer.
In one textual content trade, Hill informed her cousin that her face was ‘f***ed up’ and requested the cousin to not say something in regards to the accidents
‘Look at this image,’ lawyer Bryan Freedman informed DailyMail.com in a press release. ‘No one – completely nobody – can consent to this, logically or legally. Trevor Bauer’s crew continues to attempt to abuse an assault sufferer. They have to cease. Now.’
Attorneys for Bauer and for the lady mentioned throughout a court docket session final month they intend to name a number of witnesses, together with Bauer, and argue over the order in a listening to that is anticipated to final three days.
That listening to in Los Angeles County Superior Court has been pushed again to August 16.
Hill’s unique submitting contains footage of herself with scratches and bruising on her face and lips. She additionally mentioned she had bruising on her gums and close to her vagina, the place she claims Bauer had punched her repeatedly, leaving her ‘crying and violently shaking.’
She mentioned she had sexual encounters with Bauer in April and May of 2021, however that each episodes turned violent. She particularly alleged that Bauer punched her within the face, vagina, and buttocks, and strangled her together with her personal hair till she misplaced consciousness. Hill was later hospitalized, she mentioned, as a consequence of accidents sustained from her sexual encounters with Bauer.
During one encounter, Hill claims she handed out and located Bauer sodomizing her when she regained consciousness.
‘I agreed to have consensual intercourse; nevertheless, I didn’t agree or consent to what he did subsequent,’ Hill mentioned in her submitting. ‘I didn’t conform to be sexually assaulted.’
Hill mentioned she was bleeding and struggling to stroll after non-consensual anal intercourse, however added: ‘In my state at the moment, I didn’t suppose Trevor was a menace to do something in opposition to my will for the rest of the evening.’
Hill shared footage of her accidents together with her cousin over textual content messages
Hill described their encounters as ‘consensual,’ however mentioned he ‘took it too far’ by leaving her with black eyes, in keeping with textual content messages launched by his attorneys in 2021
The following day, Hill mentioned, Bauer requested Hill jokingly if she was ‘feeling somewhat sore this morning?’
Hill mentioned she informed him that she did not take pleasure in it and mentioned he appeared to grasp.
Bauer continued to speak with Hill over textual content messages and social media for the following three weeks, discussing baseball and her new job. Some of the conversations had been of ‘a sexual nature.’
When the pair met once more, Hill mentioned they agreed on a secure phrase which she says Bauer ignored, choking her till she misplaced consciousness. When she awoke, he was punching her within the face, she claimed.
‘This was the primary punch I felt however it is rather attainable that Trevor had already been punching and scratching the precise facet of my face whereas I used to be unconscious,’ she mentioned.
‘Trevor then punched me onerous with a closed fist to the left facet of my jaw, the left facet of my head, and each cheekbones. I bear in mind this vividly and it was extraordinarily startling and painful.
‘I used to be completely frozen and terrified. I couldn’t converse or transfer. After punching me a number of instances, he then flipped me again onto my abdomen and commenced choking me with hair. I misplaced consciousness once more.’
Hill mentioned that she was crying and shaking after regaining consciousness and that Bauer reportedly started to console her, allegedly saying: ‘You’re secure. I’m right here. You’re secure… I’d by no means do these issues to you if it wasn’t sexually.’
When she returned from Pasadena to San Diego the next day, Hill skilled extreme complications and commenced vomiting. After talking with buddies, she checked herself into an area emergency room the place she informed medical employees what occurred to her.
On May 21, 2021, three days after their second and closing sexual encounter, Pasadena Police had Hill ask Bauer for a cellphone name, which they deliberate to report. In the textual content trade pictured above, Hill is seeing telling Bauer ‘listening to your voice would assist’ and he responded by asking her if she wished to debate the incident
