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If what happened to Bauer is unjust, given he was not charged or found guilty, you would think he would investigate his legal options? If feasible, couldn't he sue major league baseball for an unjust suspension and loss of his salary?
Committing a crime has nothing to do with whether MLB can suspend him.
Gambling on baseball isn't a crime, but anyone caught gambling on baseball will be banned for life.
The only way that Bauer would have recourse is if he could prove he didn't do the thing that MLB is saying he did that brought the game into disrepute, and that isn't going to happen.
Like I've said before, this is probably the weirdest case of this type I've ever seen. I don't think that Bauer actually committed a crime, but what he did is to me far creepier and worse than if he had committed a crime. If I had a choice between an Osuna-type as a teammate who got drunk and punched his wife in an argument but probably feels bad about it and regrets it and a Bauer-type who actually gets off on beating up and injuring women and has zero regrets ... I'd take the wife beater on my team. Bauer is a f***ing sicko.