It was 325 days ago that Major League Baseball first placed Trevor Bauer on administrative leave, the start of a process that has become more prolonged and more complex than either side could have anticipated. Bauer, at that point a reigning Cy Young Award winner and one of the sport's highest-paid players, faced allegations from a San Diego woman who accused the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher of sexual assault, declarations that Bauer has vehemently refuted.
He emerged from two legal battles relatively unscathed, first when an L.A. judge denied the woman's request for a restraining order and then when the L.