{"id":165786,"date":"2022-12-23T02:46:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T02:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dodgers-trevor-bauer-reinstated-after-suspension-is-reduced\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T02:46:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T02:46:05","slug":"dodgers-trevor-bauer-reinstated-after-suspension-is-reduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dodgers-trevor-bauer-reinstated-after-suspension-is-reduced\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers’ Trevor Bauer reinstated after suspension is reduced"},"content":{"rendered":"
Trevor Bauer’s two-year suspension from Major League Baseball was reduced Thursday, and now the Dodgers have two weeks to restore him to their roster or release him.<\/p>\n
An arbitrator reduced Bauer’s suspension from 324 to 194 games and reinstated him immediately. He lost $37.5 million in salary from his $102-million Dodgers contract.<\/p>\n
Had the suspension been upheld in full, Bauer would have lost $60 million. Even with the reduction, the suspension is the longest under baseball’s policy on sexual assault and domestic violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we believe a longer suspension was warranted, MLB will abide by the neutral arbitrator’s decision,\u201d Major League Baseball said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Bauer forfeited his salary for the final 144 games of the 2022 season and the first 50 games of the 2023 season. However, the arbitrator is allowing him to play for those first 50 games, in part because of his cooperation in repeatedly agreeing to an investigative leave during which he missed the last half of the 2021 season.<\/p>\n
Under MLB rules, when a player is reinstated from the restricted list out of season, his team has 14 days to activate him. That gives the Dodgers until Jan. 6 to decide, although the remaining $22.5 million of his salary is guaranteed whether they activate him or release him.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers have cited the uncertainty over their financial liability to Bauer as one reason for their relative lack of activity in adding players this winter. The team was unaware of any decision on the appeal until shortly before the ruling was announced. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have just been informed of the arbitrator’s ruling and will comment as soon as practical,\u201d the Dodgers said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Bauer’s first public reaction came in a two-sentence tweet in which he promoted his video operation and then said: \u201cCan’t wait to see y’all at a stadium soon!\u201d <\/p>\n