Trevor Bauer, who was suspended 18 months ago for
violating the league's sexual assault and domestic abuse policy.
On Thursday Major League Baseball announced that an independent arbitrator
reduced bowers original 324 game suspension 294 and made the
picture immediately eligible. The arbitrator did find that Bauer
had violated MLB's policy on domestic violence and sexual assault
. That's why that his suspension was upheld in the
amount of 100 90 for games. It is the
longest such suspension under that policy, which is jointly
agreed upon by MLB and the players union. The
Dodgers have 14 days to decide what they want to
do. So they have up until the early days
of the new year to determine if they plan to
actually release them and they would still owe him roughly
$22 million Robert and Anthony is still unclear. The
Toronto Blue jays and the Arizona Diamondbacks gave themselves gifts
. Just like moments ago we learned of a trade
, Let's dive into this Jon Heyman with the latest
dalton bar show goes to Toronto for Lourdes Gourriel and
catching prospect Gabriel Marino Marino, who's entering his age
23 season is a coveted catching talent. Dalton bar
show only 26 years old is a unique talent that
can catch and play center field almost hit 30 homers
this year, stole almost 20 bags he provides thump
and the Diamondbacks, a team with many outfielders.
They have a surplus acquire a guy like Lourdes Gourriel
who's a talented bat entering the last year before free
agency. Gourriel is a myth, a guy with
experience. So the Diamondbacks get better there. The
blue jays were such a right hand dominant lineup,
talking to managers at the winter meetings, they talked
a lot about this lineup saying my my left handed
relievers could take a day off because they were all
right handed lineup, so I didn't have to use
them and our pictures could work a rhythm to go
through the lineup when they're all right handed. They
needed some balance to the lineup so far. So
give them that well, listen, I'm not surprised
the Giants needed to get somebody that needed to get
a name after losing out on Korea and judge.
But when I look at comfort. So if he's
healthy and he's had a year to rehab this this
shoulder and to come back and be healthy. So
if he's healthy, I think this is a nice
piece for them. I mean, this guy can
hit, he's a gap to gap guy. He's
a guy that can play a good outfield too.
I love his left handed swing. It's you know
, it's great. So I think it's a situation
here is that, you know, you're taking a
little bit of a risk on a guy that's been
an all star has been a really good player.
The Giants weren't done spending also on friday, they
reportedly landed reliever, Taylor Rogers with a three year
deal where 33 million Taylor is going to join his
twin brother Tyler in the Giants bullpen, this guy's
close games before, you know, in this era
baseball, sometimes the games get saved in the seventh
inning in the eighth inning is not only the ninth
inning, so I want a bullpen of guys who
have closer pedigree, he has that big swing and
miss stuff outstanding breaking ball. He neutralizes the left
handed hitters. I love it robert for a team
that's been I think really successful in their free agent
spending over the course of this offseason. You think
about Jamison Tayan going to the cubs rotation, you
think about of course Dansby Swanson introduced this week as
a cup Cody Bellinger, there's a lot to like
about the incremental way in which the cubs have really
improved themselves. This offseason and spy Coming off of
a year with the Cubs in which you think about
that 106 innings, pretty solid year for someone who
battled the injuries in the past. He has value
as a back end starter, you're not going to
expect him to throw 200 innings necessarily. He may
need some time to recover during the course of the
season, but if you have him as your fifth
starter, that's a pretty good rotation, My family
and I were um always Angel fans. So you
know, we're really familiar with the area, go
to Angel games and Disney and stuff as a kid
all the time. So, um, I really
like that being a little closer to home. Um
, and I just feel like the team is so
close to being really good. I see that team
as some as a team who just right on the
cusp of being a great team and I just felt
like the Angels showed a lot of interest in me
and I'm just, You know, ready to go
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