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Bauer is close to having the worst season by a foreign pitcher in NBP historyCredit: AP<\/p>\n
After winning the MLB Cy Young Award in 2020 with the Cincinnati Reds, Bauer signed a massive contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n
However, his career soon spiraled due to a series of controversies.<\/p>\n
Bauer was handed a hefty suspension by the MLB commissioner and eventually decided to continue playing baseball overseas.<\/p>\n
In 2023, Bauer signed to pitch for the Yokohama Baystars in Japan.<\/p>\n
His first year was great, as he pitched to a 2.76 ERA with 10 wins and four losses.<\/p>\n
Bauer left Japan to pitch in Mexico, where he again had a great season.<\/p>\n
He pitched to a 2.48 ERA with the Diablos Rojos del Mexico of the Mexican Baseball League.<\/p>\n
Bauer went an impressive 10-0 in 14 starts that season.<\/p>\n
He made the All-Star team that year and even won the league’s version of the Cy Young award.<\/p>\n
The Diablos Rojos won the league championship with Bauer in 2024.<\/p>\n
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Despite that strong season, Bauer returned to Japan this year to pitch with the Baystars, looking to continue his momentum.<\/p>\n
However, things went the exact opposite way he was probably hoping.<\/p>\n
In a league that is dominated by pitching, Bauer owns the worst ERA in all of NBP.<\/p>\n
His 4.17 ERA is 0.20 points worse than the next worst in the league.<\/p>\n
According to Gaijin Baseball, Bauer currently has a 142 ERA-. <\/p>\n
MLB All-Star Game Starters 2025<\/p>\n
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Here are the All-Star teams for the American League and National League at the Midsummer Classic on July 15 at Atlanta’s Truist Park, voted on by the fans.<\/p>\n
American League Starters<\/p>\n
Catcher: Cal Raleigh, Seattle MarinersFirst base: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue JaysSecond base: Gleyber Torres, Detroit TigersThird base: Jose\u0301 Rami\u0301rez, Cleveland GuardiansShortstop: Jacob Wilson, The AthleticsOutfield: Aaron Judge, New York YankeesOutfield: Javier Ba\u0301ez, TigersOutfield: Riley Greene, TigersDesignated hitter: Ryan O’Hearn, Baltimore Orioles<\/p>\n
National League Starters<\/p>\n
Catcher: Will Smith, Los Angeles DodgersFirst base: Freddie Freeman, DodgersSecond base: Ketel Marte, Arizona DiamondbacksThird base: Manny Machado, San Diego PadresShortstop: Francisco Lindor, New York MetsOutfield: Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr., Atlanta BravesOutfield: Pete Crow-Armstrong, Chicago CubsOutfield: Kyle Tucker, CubsDesignated hitter: Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers<\/p>\n
The worst ERA- ever recorded by a foreign pitcher in NBA belonged to Bob Gibson in 1988.<\/p>\n
Bauer was sent down to the Baystar’s minor league to try figuring out his struggles.<\/p>\n
He returned on Wednesday and didn’t seem to have his best stuff, surrendering six hits, and four earned runs in six innings pitched.<\/p>\n
Bauer has continually expressed his interest in returning to MLB action, but no team has considered bringing him back to the league.<\/p>\n
He is cleared to play and has no suspension attached to his name, but it is likely the case that Bauers MLB career is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TREVOR Bauer is close to putting his name in the record books \u2014 just probably not in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,19,2353,2352,4322],"class_list":{"0":"post-183342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball","10":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","11":"tag-npb","12":"tag-section-sportbaseball"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114869462903233982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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