🔴 MLB places Trevor Bauer on Administrative Leave - Here's what that means (7/2)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

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🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Major League Baseball has announced that Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer has been placed on seven-day administrative leave following the alleged assault on a 21-year old woman. What exactly does this mean? Can Bauer appeal this? Is he on the list until his case is resolved? What happens after the seven days is up? Let me explain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to nothing personal. I'm back here on Friday, July 2nd with an emergency update.
0:21.2	When we do a wait to see, we don't expect to wait and see within hours, but we have, if you listen
0:26.8	to today's episode of nothing personal, you know very well that I said that Trevor Bauer is going
0:32.0	to pitch on Sunday, but I said he shouldn't be. And I talked about the fact that Dave Roberts spoke
0:39.8	incorrectly to the media that baseball needed to get involved and that baseball needed to put Trevor
0:45.5	Bauer on administrative leave. Here we are hours later. And you're right, the way to see was wrong
0:52.2	from earlier today because Trevor Bauer will not be pitching against the Washington Nationals
0:57.3	on Sunday. He has been placed on administrative leave by Major League Baseball. Major League Baseball
1:03.6	released a statement which could not have taken them three days to write. I could have written
1:08.7	this statement in 42 seconds. I'll read it faster. MLB issued the following statement today regarding
1:15.3	LAD pitcher Trevor Bauer. MLB's investigation into the allegations made against Trevor Bauer is
1:22.1	ongoing. While no determination in this case has been made, we have made the decision to place
1:27.8	Mr. Bauer on seven day administrative leave effective immediately. Administrative leave, as we
1:34.8	discussed, means for the next seven days, Trevor Bauer will get paid his daily rate, but he may not
1:41.9	be active on the Dodgers roster. This is done in accordance with an agreement with the players union
1:49.6	that allows MLB to put a player on administrative leave while they investigate. Here's the problem.
1:58.3	The investigation will take much longer than seven days. Trevor Bauer will not be off this list
2:04.3	finished with leave within seven days or 14 days or 21 days. Here's an updated way to see Trevor Bauer
2:14.3	will not pitch again in July if he even pitches again this season. This ends the following way.
2:23.2	Pasadena is investigating from a criminal standpoint. If criminal charges are filed against Trevor Bauer,
2:30.4	Trevor Bauer will be taken off the administrative leave list and put on the suspended restricted list.
2:38.2	If Pasadena decides not to charge Trevor Bauer, MLB will still suspend Trevor Bauer the way they
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