MLB Notes: Los Angeles Dodgers Release Suspended Bauer

NEW YORK — Trevor Bauer was released Thursday by the Los Angeles Dodgers after an unprecedented 324-game suspension for sexual misconduct allegations was reduced by an arbitrator.

Los Angeles appoints Bauer on Jan. 6, the final day for arbitrator Martin Scheinman to return him to the roster after baseball commissioner Rob Manfred reduced his imposed suspension from 324 games to 194 games. specified to do. The Dodgers put their pitchers on waivers on Thursday, and any team can get Bauer by 1 p.m. Friday.

Bauer owes about $22.5 million from the remainder of the $102 million three-year deal, so a waiver claim is unlikely. If the 2020 NL Cy Young Award winner is not claimed, any team can sign him for a minimum of $720,000 in his league after 2 p.m. Friday. The Dodgers will bear the rest of his $22,537,635 he owes.

Suspenson paid Bauer a salary of about $37.6 million.

Manfred suspended Bauer last April for violating the league’s domestic violence and sexual assault policy after he said a woman in San Diego beat and molested her in 2021. .

Bauer has never been charged with any crime.

The Players Association filed a complaint on Bauer’s behalf, and a three-member committee led by Scheinman issued a ruling on December 2. The pitcher was on paid leave in 2021 and 2022.

Bauer joined the Dodgers in his hometown before the 2021 season, going 8-5 with a 2.59 ERA in 17 games, before going on vacation.

Mariners: Outfielder AJ Pollock and the Seattle Mariners signed a one-year deal, setting platoon potential in left field for next season.

Right-handed Pollock could be paired with left-handed Jared Kelenic in a potential position share.

Mets: Eric Hinsky joined the New York Mets as an assistant hitting coach on the staff of Buck Showalter manager, while Eric Chavez became the bench coach and Dom Cheech became the bullpen coach.

Glenn Sherlock will move from bench coach to catcher and strategy coach, and Jeremy Barnes will move from assistant hitting coach to hitting coach, the team said.

A 12-year veteran in the big leagues, Hinske was the hitting coach for the Los Angeles Angels in 2018 when Billy Eppler was general manager. Eppler will become Mets general manager in November 2021.

tv set: Major League Baseball has hired senior executives from the Sinclair Broadcast Group to help the sport address concerns about the future of regional sports networks in an era of cut cords.

Billy Chambers will take over as MLB’s newly created executive vice president of local media on Feb. 1, according to the commissioner’s office.

Kenny Gersh has been promoted by MLB to Executive Vice President of Media and Business Development from Executive Vice President of Business Development, a position he has held since September 2020.

Cardinal: The Cardinals hired Joe McCuing as their new bench coach, replacing longtime star Matt Holliday, who took office in November but stepped down to spend more time with his family.

Drafted by the Cardinals in 1992 and played two seasons in St. Louis, 50-year-old McCewing has spent the last 15 years with the White Sox, serving as bench coach under Rick Renteria in 2017-20. And last season, he served as Tony La Lusa’s third base coach and acting manager Miguel Cairo.

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