‘Nerdy pitcher’ Trevor Bauer, 33, is determined to return to Major League Baseball (MLB). He’s saying “use me” amid his former team’s losing streak.
“Bauer has sent a message to the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have lost five straight games,” Japanese media outlet Tokyo Sports reported on Sunday.
The Dodgers lost 1-4 against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Sunday. The Dodgers have lost five straight games for the first time this season. They are now 33-22 (.600) on the season.
The Dodgers turned to Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto. It was a trusty move, as he had been steadily settling in after a poor outing in the Seoul series (five runs in one inning). In the second inning, Yamamoto gave up two hits but didn’t allow a run.
But in the third inning, two hits and a walk loaded the bases, and Jonathan India gave up a single to score two runs. With runners on second and third, Nick Martini, who played for the NC Dinos in 2022, followed with an RBI double to make it a four-run game.
The Dodgers offense was shut down by Nick Martinez, who came on after Brent Suter, who was relieved after ⅔ of an inning, allowing just one run on three hits with three strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings. They finally got one run back in the top of the ninth on a Shohei Ohtani single followed by a Freddie Freeman double, but it was too little too late.
The Dodgers, who came into the season with a championship aspirations, having acquired the likes of Ohtani, Yamamoto, Teoscar Hernandez, and James Paxton, had been playing consistently well, with their longest losing streak being three games through the first 50 games of the season. They had one six-game winning streak and one seven-game winning streak during that span.
It was a post about a four-game losing streak that prompted Bauer to comment. Dodger Nation, an outlet that specializes in covering Dodgers news, wrote a post on the 26th asking, “What the hell needs to change?” Bauer responded with “Sign Trevor Bauer,” which went viral.
Bauer is currently playing in the Mexican League. He plays for Diablos Rojos del Mexico and is 5-0 with a 1.50 ERA in five appearances. He initially 메이저사이트 signed a short-term contract with the team, but they extended it through the end of the season.
As evidenced by his initial short contract, Bauer was eager to return to the big leagues. Known as a pitching prodigy since his college days at UCLA, Bauer was drafted by Arizona with the third overall pick in the 2011 MLB First-Year Player Draft. He was acquired by Cleveland in 2013 in a triple-play trade that also included Shin-Soo Ahu (now SSG) and became a full-time starter in 2014.
In 2016, Bauer went 12-8 with a 4.26 ERA in 190 innings to lead the team to the World Series. After winning a career-high 17 games the following year, he followed that up with a 12-6 record and 2.21 ERA in 2018. He was traded to Cincinnati in 2019 and went 5-4 with a 1.73 ERA in 11 appearances the following year (a 60-game shortened season). He won the National League Cy Young Award for his dominance, striking out 100 batters in 73 innings.
Bauer signed a three-year, $120 million contract with the Dodgers after the season. In 2021, he appeared to be on track for a successful season, going 8-5 with a 2.59 ERA 토토사이트 추천 through June. However, sexual assault allegations surfaced that year, and the MLB office suspended him for 324 games in April 2022. It was reduced to 194 games in December of that year, but the Dodgers released him, and no other team offered him a contract.
Bauer eventually made his way to the Asian League, signing with the NPB Yokohama DeNA BayStars in 2023. He pitched in 19 games until an injury sidelined him in late August, posting a 10-4 record with a 2.76 ERA, 130 strikeouts and 31 walks in 130⅔ innings. Still, no big-league offers came his way, and his NPB courtship fizzled after he was criticized for posting a message that appeared to support the release of a U.S. soldier who was killed in a car accident in Japan.