As far as former Cleveland players go, perhaps none has made himself so easy to say goodbye to as Trevor Bauer. For all his talent, he has always been a petulant and fussy personality. Perhaps my feelings about it are best summed up by Terry Francona’s last on-field words to him (probably, I’m not a perfect lip reader):
So, when Bauer was singled out to be inspected for using foreign substance on the baseball last week, I had a good chuckle. But that chuckle was short-lived because, as Eno Sarris wrote at The Athletic, “Your favorite pitcher is probably cheating.