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20 minutes ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:

I'm shocked people think he won't get a job.  Deshaun Watson got a job and I'm not sure this is worse at all.  He will get a job from someone. 

People didn’t like Bauer to start with, including his teammates.  

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4 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

I could be off, but there are other toxic players who have been pushed out of baseball for less, such as Puig and Bonds.

Bonds played until he was 42 and Puig wasn’t very good at baseball. I am quite certain that Trevor Bauer will play in the big leagues again. Not saying he deserves the chance to be able to, but I’m pretty sure he will. 

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1 minute ago, ChiSox59 said:

Bonds played until he was 42 and Puig wasn’t very good at baseball. I am quite certain that Trevor Bauer will play in the big leagues again. Not saying he deserves the chance to be able to, but I’m pretty sure he will. 

Bonds put up a 1.045 OPS his last year.  He didn't leave because he wanted to.

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The other thing with Bauer is that if you sign him, you almost certainly know you will have to deal with him trending for something he does in the future. This isn't just these 2 women who made complaints against him, it's also his online persona, where he's bullied women by "quote-tweeting" things they dared to tweet about him so that his followers go after them, he's fiddled around with the antisemitic "George Soros is evil" stuff which won't go over well with any owners who happen to be Jewish, he's made "jokes" about trans people. You don't just have the risk of him abusing some woman again while you've signed him, you also have the darn near certainty that your team is going to have to deal with something else he says online. 

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10 minutes ago, Harry Chappas said:

A team that has built up credibility with their fan base could pull it off like the Padres or the Mets.  You also have teams that have no media coverage like Tampa, Oakland and to a degree Cleveland. 

I was definitely thinking these 2 teams. The Mets dump too if they dump some of Carrasco's contract and open up a spot in the rotation.

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4 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

I was definitely thinking these 2 teams. The Mets dump too if they dump some of Carrasco's contract and open up a spot in the rotation.

The problem for the Mets is that there are strong suggestions that one of Cohen's motivations behind the spending is that he's after one of a select group of NY State Casino Licenses that are about to be given out by the state legislature. To do so literally will require the permission of the state legislature, so he is actively employing NY State lobbyists on the subject and this may very well be why he's willing to put so much money into the Mets.

https://fortune.com/2023/01/08/casino-new-york-city-mets-owner-steve-cohen-gets-community-input-gambling/

How would New York State Politicians react to him employing Trevor Bauer? Is Bauer worth derailing a billion dollar casino project? Naw. 

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18 minutes ago, Harry Chappas said:

A team that has built up credibility with their fan base could pull it off like the Padres or the Mets.  You also have teams that have no media coverage like Tampa, Oakland and to a degree Cleveland. 

Francona would never allow that guy to return. He might be one of the few players where the talent doesn't outweigh the PR nightmare and day-to-day headache.

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14 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:

The problem for the Mets is that there are strong suggestions that one of Cohen's motivations behind the spending is that he's after one of a select group of NY State Casino Licenses that are about to be given out by the state legislature. To do so literally will require the permission of the state legislature, so he is actively employing NY State lobbyists on the subject and this may very well be why he's willing to put so much money into the Mets.

https://fortune.com/2023/01/08/casino-new-york-city-mets-owner-steve-cohen-gets-community-input-gambling/

How would New York State Politicians react to him employing Trevor Bauer? Is Bauer worth derailing a billion dollar casino project? Naw. 

Ok point was just some team could be interested lol

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3 hours ago, Balta1701 said:

The other thing with Bauer is that if you sign him, you almost certainly know you will have to deal with him trending for something he does in the future. This isn't just these 2 women who made complaints against him, it's also his online persona, where he's bullied women by "quote-tweeting" things they dared to tweet about him so that his followers go after them, he's fiddled around with the antisemitic "George Soros is evil" stuff which won't go over well with any owners who happen to be Jewish, he's made "jokes" about trans people. You don't just have the risk of him abusing some woman again while you've signed him, you also have the darn near certainty that your team is going to have to deal with something else he says online. 

Something else from his past will almost certainly emerge if he stays in the spotlight making hundreds of millions. 

There are so many reasons why MLB should stay the hell away. I am hopeful they will. 

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