mistakes” and been “untouchable” in his personal life,
Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer told Fox News on Thursday that he’s made “mistakes” and been “untouchable” in his personal life, but has made changes to address them as he tries to rebuild American baseball career. , which includes “not having casual sex.”
Bauer, 32, said she was bullied as a child and as a result sometimes acted “immaturely” to defend herself on social media.
Bauer discussed the issue in his first TV interview since his Major League Baseball career was suspended in 2021 after he was accused of sexually assaulting a San Diego woman. He denies sexually assaulting her and others who have made similar claims and says the encounter was consensual.
“I agreed to do something I shouldn’t have done,” Bauer told America’s Bill Hemmer on Fox News. “It was a coincidence. Many people were injured in the process. This has been very difficult for Major League Baseball, the Dodgers, my teammates, friends, family and loved ones. So I thought about it a lot and made a lot of changes in my life to deal with it.
“For example, there will be no more casual sex. And I did something that upset a lot of people in the media. When people wrote things about me that I didn’t agree with, I was very immature in the way I handled things. “I had to talk to someone in person.”
Bauer has generally not granted interviews since the allegations, defending himself in court and filing defamation suits against media outlets that published the allegations. Now, the former Cy Young Award winner is revealing more in an interview that shows his bright side as he works to rebuild his reputation and secure a contract with an MLB team. He also expressed regret for his past criticism of MLB commissioner Rob Manfred in an interview with the conservative sports news site Outkick that will be published Friday. In 2020, before the sexual assault allegations surfaced, Bauer called Manfred a “joke” who “knew nothing about baseball.”
“I am deeply ashamed and sorry that these comments made the situation much more difficult than it needed to be,” Bauer said in an interview with OutKick’s Charlie Arnault. “I’m trying to mend all my relationships and talk to people. I have experienced this adaptation in my personal life. “I will try to make myself a better player in the second half of the year than in the first half,” he said.
Last year, Bauer agreed to drop the lawsuit against the San Diego woman, but he still has a civil lawsuit pending against an Arizona woman who made similar claims about him, which he denies.
He told Fox News that he has “definitely grown up” but is not a victim. “My views are very different than they were five or 10 years ago,” Bauer told Fox News. “Yes. Other things are important to me.
Asked if he had anything to apologize for, Bauer said: “I take responsibility for my role in this role. “I’ve put myself in a lot of positions that make things difficult for people, and I’m trying to improve.”
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“I think that me, but — yes, me, but a lot of people around me — is more important than how difficult it is for me personally,” Bauer said. Last year, after being released from the Dodgers, he played baseball in Japan. Bauer was never arrested or charged with the allegations, but MLB suspended him for 324 games, which was later reduced to 194 games after a hearing before a private arbitrator. Bauer described the San Diego woman’s claims as a money grab and used the lawsuit against her to gain access to evidence supporting that idea, including a video the woman made shortly after meeting him at his home in May 2021. Pasadena. In the video, she is seen “voluntarily lying in bed with a sleeping, smiling and harmless Mr. Bauer,” according to her rep. The woman met Bauer on Instagram and had two dates at Bauer’s home. The meeting started consensually, she said, but went too far. After the second hospital visit, I was diagnosed with acute brain injury and asphyxiation. «
