55 Facts About Trevor Bauer

Trevor Andrew Bauer was born on January 17,1991 and is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball.

Trevor Bauer previously played for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Indians, and Cincinnati Reds.

The following year, Bauer won both the Golden Spikes Award and the National Pitcher of the Year Award.

Trevor Bauer clashed with his Diamondbacks teammates during the 2012 season.

Trevor Bauer spent the first two seasons there retooling his pitching approach, repairing poor mechanics that he had picked up after a 2012 injury.

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Trevor Bauer struggled during the 2019 season, both with Cleveland and with Cincinnati, but he followed this effort with his first Cy Young Award during the 60-game 2020 MLB season.

Free agent after the 2020 season, Trevor Bauer signed a three-year contract with the Dodgers in February 2021.

Trevor Bauer was born on January 17,1991, in North Hollywood, California.

From a young age, Trevor Bauer was fascinated by baseball pitchers like Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, and John Smoltz.

Trevor Bauer had few friends in school and experienced bullying for his obsession with baseball.

Trevor Bauer continued to practice his technique at William S Hart High School in Santa Clarita, and he spent the summers at a baseball camp in Texas.

Trevor Bauer chose to graduate after his junior season, in part because he meshed poorly with many of his teammates, including future Major League Baseball player Mike Montgomery.

Trevor Bauer was the first UCLA player to receive the Golden Spikes Award, given annually to the top amateur baseball player in the United States.

Trevor Bauer entered the 2012 season as the Diamondbacks' top-rated prospect, and the ninth overall prospect in MLB.

Ultimately Trevor Bauer failed to displace Josh Collmenter in Arizona's starting rotation, and he was assigned to Mobile shortly before opening day.

Trevor Bauer was selected to pitch in the 2012 All-Star Futures Game, but he was unavailable due to a major league call-up and had to be replaced by Tyler Skaggs.

Trevor Bauer was scheduled to start the next day, becoming the first member of the 2011 draft class to make his MLB debut.

Trevor Bauer finished the season there, helping the Aces to reach their first Pacific Coast League and Triple-A baseball championships.

On December 11,2012, Trevor Bauer was part of a three-team, nine-player trade between Arizona, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Cleveland Indians.

Montero indicated that Trevor Bauer ignored his pitch calling and would "tell [Montero] how to do [his] job".

Diamondbacks president Derrick Hall told reporters that Trevor Bauer "had a really tough year" with Arizona, and that he had apologized for his attitude to several veteran players.

Trevor Bauer began retooling his pitching delivery after the 2012 season, and he entered spring training with the Indians with the intention of "overwrit[ing] eight to 10 years of neuromuscular programming".

Trevor Bauer was not named to the Indians' 2013 opening day roster, instead making up part of the starting rotation for the Triple-A Columbus Clippers.

Trevor Bauer took the loss in that game despite recording eight strikeouts, but continued to progress in Columbus.

Trevor Bauer was named to the Indians' opening day roster for the 2015 season, joining Corey Kluber, Carlos Carrasco, Zach McAllister, and TJ House in the starting rotation.

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Trevor Bauer said later that he "didn't think [he'd] ever get a career hit", and that he had closed his eyes while making contact with the ball.

Trevor Bauer led the American League in walks that season with 79.

Trevor Bauer received stitches for the injury and started in Game 3, but MLB prohibits pitchers from using Band-Aids on their hands, and the wound re-opened on the mound.

Trevor Bauer lasted only 21 pitches before he was replaced by Dan Otero.

The first two months of the 2017 season were a disappointment for Trevor Bauer, who allowed 11 home runs and 38 earned runs in his first 10 appearances.

Trevor Bauer described the first half of the season as "miserable", and was often upset when he was scheduled to start, because it "didn't feel like [he] was contributing to the team".

Trevor Bauer recorded eight strikeouts in the game, including three of Yankees slugger Aaron Judge, and was able to carry a no-hitter into the sixth inning.

Trevor Bauer was frustrated with his own performance, referring to the back half of the season as "one step forward, two steps back".

Trevor Bauer avoided arbitration prior to the 2020 MLB season, agreeing to a one-year, $17.

Trevor Bauer set a Cincinnati record for the most strikeouts delivered by a pitcher in the playoffs.

Trevor Bauer was the first pitcher for Cincinnati to receive the award; previously, the Reds were the only active MLB team founded prior to 1961 that had never boasted a winning pitcher.

On September 10, MLB and the players union agreed to extend Trevor Bauer's leave through the remainder of the 2021 season; previously, the extensions had been made on a week-by-week basis.

Trevor Bauer became the first player ever to appeal a suspension under the league's domestic violence policy since it went into effect in 2015.

Trevor Bauer began incorporating long toss into his warmup regimen as a preteen attending Alan Jaeger's baseball clinic in southern California.

When Trevor Bauer was retooling his pitch technique in preparation for major league ball, he admitted to modeling his mechanics after Lincecum's delivery.

In recent years, Trevor Bauer has been one of several players at the heart of a pitch doctoring controversy in MLB, which concerns the use of resin-infused grip enhancers to improve spin rate on pitches.

In February 2020, Trevor Bauer spoke to HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel about the use of pine tar and other foreign substances, estimating that "70 percent of the pitchers in the league use some sort of technically illegal substance on the ball".

Speculation that Trevor Bauer had been using grip-enhancing substances increased after the spin rate on his fastball dropped by more than 200 rpm following an announcement from MLB that the league would begin enforcing their rules on pitch doctoring.

Besides pitching, Trevor Bauer is interested in marketing the sport of baseball, particularly in response to what he perceives as negativity from sports commentators during games.

Trevor Bauer is an active Twitter user who has made many of his political beliefs known via the platform.

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Trevor Bauer identifies as a free market capitalist and social liberal.

Trevor Bauer previously expressed his support for 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney and criticized former president Barack Obama.

In February 2017, Trevor Bauer accused Apple and Twitter of purporting a liberal media bias, after which he proceeded to express a variety of political beliefs, including climate change denial, skepticism that Obama was born in the United States, and a defense of the Indians' mascot Chief Wahoo, who has been criticized as a racial caricature.

In 2018, Trevor Bauer accused the Indians of restricting his Twitter access in order to censor his political commentary.

Trevor Bauer, who has been characterized as "extremely online" by NBC Sports correspondent Bill Baer, has been criticized for engaging in online harassment of those who disagree with his views.

In January 2019, Trevor Bauer responded to a female college student who referred to him as her "least favorite person in all of sports" by tweeting at her over the course of 12 hours and encouraging his followers to partake as well.

The woman alleged that Trevor Bauer had sodomized her without consent, punched her in the face, and choked her to the point of unconsciousness.

On February 8,2022, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced that they would not be filing any criminal charges against Trevor Bauer related to these incidents citing a lack of evidence.

In March 2022, Trevor Bauer filed defamation lawsuits against Deadspin, The Athletic, and a former reporter for The Athletic, Molly Knight.

Trevor Bauer denied these additional allegations and further alleged that he had been harassed and physically assaulted by the Ohio woman.