Lindsey Hill was on the Pad Squad, a promotional group for the Padres. She got kicked off for having sex with Fernando Tatis Jr. and Mike Clevinger. She learned from Clevinger about Bauer and in an effort to get back into the good graces of the Pad Squad, she planned to go after Bauer, get paid, and screw the Dodgers in the process, giving the Padres a better chance to win.Strummer Jones wrote: ↑17 Apr 2025 15:59 pm Lindsey Hill...what? What in the world do the Padres have to do with this? What does she get out of that? Are you saying that she's a Pads fan, and is completely willing to get the (bleep) beaten out of her if it means getting one pitcher on a rival team suspended for a period of time? Is that what you're saying? Would you be willing to get brutalized if it meant Kyle Tucker couldn't play for the Cubs? What even is this? Sounds like a bunch of [nonsense] to me. And nothing you can prove.
What do you mean "cannot be proven"? You literally linked the article, and it seems you left out, well... a bunch of stuff that doesn't fit the narrative that you're buying.Speaking of other things that cannot be proven, is this Ohio woman thing. Don't you think this would've been all over the news? Like when Tawny Kitaen beat the stuffing out of Chuck Finley? Or is just the Christ-like Trevor Bauer refusing to press assault charges against this woman out of the goodness of his heart? I did a google search of this, and...again...the only source for this is Bauer. Something that he said in an interview. Trevor's response to this particular woman?
From the AP (https://apnews.com/article/sports-mlb-b ... cece5a6969) According to sealed court records and other documentation obtained by the Post, the Ohio woman said Bauer struck and choked her without her consent while they were having sex. He also allegedly sent her a text message from a phone number known to be registered to Bauer saying he doesn’t “feel like spending time in jail for killing someone.”
“And that’s what would happen if I saw you again,” Bauer allegedly wrote, according to the Post, prompting the woman to seek the protective order in June 2020.
And this...The Ohio woman tried in 2017 to show police photographs of injuries to her eyes, but instead she was arrested for underage drinking, according to a police report obtained by the Post, which said the report did not indicate whether her allegations were investigated.
Dropped... because allegations were false and she wasn't going to get the money she was going after.Bauer said the woman harassed and physically assaulted him and also tried to “extort me for millions of dollars last year in exchange for her not coming forward with false claims.”
Bauer’s lawyer and agent, Jon Fetterolf, and agent Rachel Luba said in a statement that Bauer and the woman were in a consensual relationship from 2016-19 and that she pursued him, filing a “bogus protection petition” while “demanding $3.4 million for her to ‘remain silent.’”
The woman dropped the protection order six weeks after filing it
So where are we?
1. You were unaware of Hill's background
2. You were unaware of the Ohio accuser's arrest and allegations were met without charges since authorities doubted their authenticity.
3. You've danced past the Arizona woman who MLB gave serious weight to when suspending Bauer... who was later indicted for felony fraud and extortion for her actions towards Bauer and another athlete.
He got railroaded by the media and convicted in the court of public opinion at the time when cancel culture and MeToo were running rampant. The Dodgers were able to save a bunch of money by getting under the luxury tax line:
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/353 ... on-dodgersIn terms of Bauer's salary impact, the arbitrator's decision did alleviate some of the pressure on the Dodgers' competitive balance tax. Currently, according to Baseball Prospectus, Los Angeles' estimated CBT payroll for the 2023 season is $199 million. Bauer's salary for a full season was supposed to count for $34 million -- the average annual value of his deal -- toward the Dodgers' CBT number. But by docking Bauer for 50 games of pay, a source said, the arbitrator reduced the Dodgers' luxury tax burden by nearly $9.5 million. That would keep them under the $233 million threshold, which they would have exceeded at Bauer's full salary.
If the Dodgers do exceed the threshold for the third consecutive season, the base tax rate for every dollar spent from $233 million to $253 million would be taxed 50%.
And Manfred was able to keep the whistleblower on the Astros' cheating out of baseball.
As for Bauer being "my boy"... save that shart. I just tire of people arguing this who have chosen for one reason or another to buy every narrative the media fed them and don't know a bunch of the background. It all got too messy for him for a team to risk the PR hit to bring him back.