Bauer: Would it be a move you would make?

Do you sign Trevor Bauer with his baggage?

Poll ended at Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:42 am

Yes
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43%
No
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48%
Maybe, If we get him at an extreme discount
2
10%
 
Total votes: 21

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Re: Bauer: Would it be a move you would make?

Post by Donn Beach » Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:34 pm

Guess Bauer is supposed to have a thing about the padres
Bauer had a running rivalry with Houston during his days with the Cincinnati Reds, and then briefly with the Dodgers. He even wore cleats with garbage cans on them, hinting at Houston’s sign-stealing scandal.

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Re: Bauer: Would it be a move you would make?

Post by D-train » Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:46 pm

Donn Beach wrote:
Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:34 pm
Guess Bauer is supposed to have a thing about the padres
Bauer had a running rivalry with Houston during his days with the Cincinnati Reds, and then briefly with the Dodgers. He even wore cleats with garbage cans on them, hinting at Houston’s sign-stealing scandal.
But if he signs with the Astros he can just wear those same spikes. Cleats are football shoes.
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Post by Donn Beach » Wed Jan 11, 2023 8:37 pm

Kinda interesting, the reason he won't get picked up is his unwillingness to be rehabilitated
."If you sign someone with that type of baggage," one agent noted, "you have to walk him through the reclamation tour. And I don't think he's coachable for that

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Re: Bauer: Would it be a move you would make?

Post by GL_Storm » Wed Jan 11, 2023 9:50 pm

Donn Beach wrote:
Wed Jan 11, 2023 8:37 pm
Kinda interesting, the reason he won't get picked up is his unwillingness to be rehabilitated
."If you sign someone with that type of baggage," one agent noted, "you have to walk him through the reclamation tour. And I don't think he's coachable for that
That's the issue. He's got this enormous chip on his shoulder and he looks for conflict. It's really too bad. He's a smart guy and a great pitcher.

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Re: Bauer: Would it be a move you would make?

Post by Donn Beach » Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:51 am

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The #Dodgers DFA’d Trevor Bauer on Friday January 6. They then have seven days to trade him. The expiration for that is January 13.

I can report the #MNTwins have made contact.

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Re: Bauer: Would it be a move you would make?

Post by D-train » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:13 pm

Rachel Luba......just a bit intriguing...
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Post by D-train » Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:15 pm

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.luba/
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Re: Bauer: Would it be a move you would make?

Post by Big_Maple » Thu Jan 12, 2023 7:53 pm

Interesting article recently from the LA Times. The question they asked is whether Bauer would ever pitch again. On the one hand, the answer was a resounding "no".

The Times reached out to 16 front-office executives, most of them team presidents and general managers, to see whether they had any interest in signing Bauer... Of the 10 who responded, seven were a hard “no,” one said, “I doubt it,” and two declined to comment altogether, with one of those executives saying, “I’m not touching that topic.”

But then they qualified it a little saying that some team might be willing to pick him up cheaply and hope the fanbase doesn't revolt.

“He’s so affordable, I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody does sign him and weathers the storm for spring training and the first two weeks of the season and then hopes it kind of dies down,” said one GM who was granted anonymity to speak freely about the situation.

“Maybe it’s not spring training [that Bauer signs], maybe it’s May 1 or June 1, maybe it’s more strategically timed for a team to get out of spring training and avoid the early noise, but I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t play again.”


Link to entire article (paywall): https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/ ... et-waivers

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Re: Bauer: Would it be a move you would make?

Post by roosevelt » Fri Jan 13, 2023 12:10 am

I would sign the fool subject to him undergoing electric-shock therapy.

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Re: Bauer: Would it be a move you would make?

Post by ice99 » Fri Jan 13, 2023 12:15 am

I wonder if the O's would sign him. They'd still have the 2nd lowest payroll next to the A's.

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