Man, nothing with Trevor Bauer is ever straightforward, is it? After the Dodgers designated Bauer for assignment on Friday, Bauer released a statement that had an interesting claim in it.
“Following two weeks of conversations around my return to the organization, I sat down with Dodgers leadership in Arizona yesterday who told me that they wanted me to return and pitch for the team this year.”
In case you missed it, this is Bauer saying, moments after Los Angeles DFA’d him, that “Dodgers leadership” told him a day earlier that they wanted him to pitch for them this year — something they could control completely simply by adding him to their roster.