What Trevor Bauer Really Thinks About MLB

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🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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We should be in the first week of baseball season, but...try not to think about that. Instead, ponder the future with Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer and ESPN baseball insider Jeff Passan. On the heels of MLB's hiatus deal with players around pay, service time and other issues, hear how it sets up the 2021 collective bargaining agreement. Plus, Bauer gets into the issues with training during all this uncertainty, whether baseball is too slow, and the sport's need for a media makeover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The one thing I know for sure is baseball will be back. Whenever it's safe to play, we'll be back,
0:06.8	our fans will be back, our players will be back, and we will be part of the recovery, the healing
0:13.7	in this country from this particular pandemic.
0:20.4	That's MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, promising us that baseball will return.
0:26.9	Until then, the league and its players now have a working deal in place to settle issues
0:32.0	like service time and player pay.
0:34.5	But behind the labor piece, storm clouds are gathering for the future of the sport.
0:39.9	Today, Jeff Passon talks to Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer about what's right and wrong
0:47.0	with the relationship between the league and its players and how baseball could use this
0:52.2	opportunity to come booming back.
0:55.7	I'm Mina Kimes. It's Monday, March 30th.
0:58.5	This is ESPN Daily.
1:02.5	Today we've got another firsthand look at how the sports shutdown is affecting Major League Baseball,
1:08.6	from ESPN Senior Baseball Insider Jeff Passon.
1:12.0	As part of this series, Jeff caught up with Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer just a few hours
1:17.1	after the league and its players association reached deal.
1:20.6	Here's Jeff.
1:21.9	This is recording.
1:25.3	I'm recording, so that's good.
1:27.1	Do we need to clap or something?
1:28.1	Hold on. Would you like to clap just to make it feel like a real audio thing? One.
1:33.8	One. I got you. I beat you to it. Three. Go.
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