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Former NL Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer<\/a> is finalizing a one-year deal with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of the Nippon Professional Baseball league, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Having recently turned 32 and only three years removed from winning a Cy Young Award with the Cincinnati Reds, Bauer would still conceivably have a few good years of pitching left. It was reported in Jan. 2022 that multiple MLB teams with a potential starting pitching need wouldn’t be pursuing<\/a> the controversial righty though.<\/p>\n The Los Angeles Dodgers were unable to find a trade partner for the one-time All-Star this winter, which led to his release two months ago. The Dodgers owe Bauer his remaining salary of $22.5M in 2023 but would’ve saved the major league minimum of $720K if another team had signed him.<\/p>\n The 2011 third-overall draft pick hasn’t pitched since June 2021, when he first faced sexual assault allegations.<\/p>\n In April 2022, MLB handed down<\/a> an unprecedented 324-game suspension for violation of the league’s domestic violence policy. Per ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez<\/a>, Bauer appealed the decision, and what followed was a “seven-month grievance process that ended with an independent arbitrator ruling Dec. 22 that Bauer’s suspension would be trimmed to 194 games and he would be reinstated immediately.”<\/p>\n After debuting with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2012 and pitching for Cleveland from 2013-19, he was traded to the Reds in July of that year and signed with the Dodgers in Feb. 2021 on a three-year, $102M contract.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n