Every MLB team is hanging up on Trevor Bauer, even though he is willing to play for free

Image by docjeffhyde, CC BY-SA 2.0. Baseball keeps ghosting the guy. | Published: May 10, 2026 12:34 pm Trevor Bauer is struggling to make an MLB comeback. Despite winning the 2020 National League Cy Young Award, he has been out of Major League Baseball since 2021, when he received a 194-game suspension under MLB’s Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy. The 35-year-old pitcher has been trying to get back on a roster ever since, but no team is willing to take a chance on him. Bauer recently took to X to make an extreme offer to any interested clubs, according to Brobible. He proposed signing a minor league contract for a $0 salary, and even suggested starting at the Low A level to prove his worth. In his view, this would mean zero financial risk for any team, since they could simply cut him if he performed poorly or caused problems in the clubhouse. He went even further, saying that teams could restrict his social media access or limit his behavior, and he would agree to all of it just to get back in the door. Despite the offer, the response from the public and the league has
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