Trevor Bauer Will Sit Out Of MLB Playoffs While Sexual Assault Investigation Continues, Dodgers Pitcher Hopes To 'Minimize Any Distraction'
Sept. 10 2021, Published 3:15 p.m. ET
Los Angeles Dodgers player Trevor Bauer will not be participating in the upcoming Major League Baseball playoffs, Breaking Celebrity News has learned.
The 30-year-old star pitcher has been on administrative leave since July, when the MLB and Pasadena Police Department announced they were launching separate investigations into claims he sexually assaulted a woman in the spring.
The investigations are ongoing.
"Today Mr. Bauer agreed to extend his administrative leave through the playoffs in a measure of good faith and in an effort to minimize any distraction to the Dodgers organization and his teammates," his agents, Jon Fetterolf and Rachel Luba, told us on Friday. "He continues to cooperate with the MLB investigation and refute the baseless allegations against him.
"Again, by definition administrative leave is neither a disciplinary action nor does it in any way reflect a finding in the league's investigation," they added.
Bauer was accused of sexually assaulting a 27-year-old woman on two separate occasions at his Pasadena home in April and May of this year. The woman claimed Bauer choked her unconscious, sodomized her without consent, and punched her in the face and [expletive].
He's repeatedly denied the allegations, claiming the rough sex with the woman was "consensual."
Text messages and Instagram direct messages previously obtained and reviewed by Breaking Celebrity News seemed to show that the woman acknowledged the sex was rough but did not appear to be accusatory of Bauer.
She then filed for and was granted a temporary restraining order in June. The following month, she appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court in the hope of making the protective order permanent.
