It was only a matter of time beforeMajor League Baseball dug deeper into Trevor Bauer. Heâs been taunting them for years, especially when it comes to using banned substances and âcheatingâ.
The Los Angeles Dodgers star has been as good as ever over his two first starts of the season, but heâs currently making the headlines for the wrong reasons, or at least; thatâs what they want us to think.
Apparently, the league took away multiple âsuspiciousâ balls from Bauerâs start vs. the Oakland Athletic because they were sticky and had âvisible marksâ. In fact, some of them were taken as early as the first inning.
Trevor Bauer Rants On Twitter Over MLB Investigation
Then again, Bauer wanted to kill the narrative that he was being targetted by Major League Baseball in any way. If anything, he called them out for venting out a process that should be confidential:
âLol always fun reading desperate and misleading clickbait headlines from national gossip bloggers. To translate fake journalist speak for yâall, âItâs unclear whetherâ = âI canât be bothered to look into this cuz it doesnât fit my narrative.âwonder where the articles about,â Bauer tweeted.
âballs from every other pitcher being taken out of play in literally every other game this season are? Also lol to@MLBwho already has âsourcesâ talking to gossip bloggers about a supposedly confidential process a week into the season thumbs up yâall keep killin it!â He added.

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Bauer Questioned MLBâs Latest Memo On Banned Substances
Trevor Bauer â arguably the most outspoken player in todayâs game â had already questioned MLBâs ability to actually enforce this ban during a 25-minute video on his YouTube channel right before the start of the season:
(Transcript via The New York Post)
âItâs only illegal for pitchers to have âforeign substanceâ on their person, their body or whatever. Itâs not illegal for a catcher or his chest protector, as youâve seen. Itâs not illegal for a third baseman to have it on his glove or a center fielder to have it on his glove â so far as I know, maybe thereâs a rule change or some language â as far as I know the rules of baseball, it is legal for those guys to have stuff on their glove.
âMy question is, if I throw a pitch and it gets thrown out and then gets tested and has a foreign substance on it, how do they know it came from me and not from the catcherâs glove or the third basemanâs glove? Or on a foul ball, what if it happened to hit the handle of a bat where a hitter has pine tar or whatever other substance he wants, which is completely legal so long as it doesnât [go] too far up the bat,â Bauer said.
So, maybe we shouldnât read too much into it. If Bauer himself isnât worried or believes that the league is on to him because of his antics, then so be it. Hopefully, this situation will be settled rather sooner than later.





