Trevor Bauer pulls on No. 96 for Yokohama’s BayStars

Published March 24, 2023 3:45 AM

By STEPHEN WADE
AP Sports Writer

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — The Trevor Bauer era in Japan began Friday at an introductory news conference with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars. The 2020 Cy Young Award winner is in Japan on a one-year deal that could let him prove himself and return to Major League Baseball. He was unable to find work in MLB this season even after an arbitrator reduced his unprecedented 324-game suspension for violating the league’s domestic violence and sexual assault policy. He was cut in January by the Los Angeles Dodgers, who still owe him $22.5 million this season. Not a single Japanese reporter asked him about his suspension in the United States or the circumstances surrounding it.

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