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LOS ANGELES –Trevor Bauer still hasn’t signed with a MLB 14 months after being released by the Dodgers. But the right-hander is expected to face his former organization on Sunday.
“Asian Breeze is extremely excited to announce that Trevor Bauer will be making his debut on March 10th against the Los Angeles Dodgers Organization,” the traveling Japanese baseball team wrote in press release.
The self-described showcase team is expected to take on Dodgers minor leaguers on a back field at the team’s spring training facility at Camelback Ranch in Arizona. It’s unlikely to feature any players from the Dodgers’ major leaguer roster (they’ll be playing the Arizona Diamondbacks in a Cactus League game at the Camelback Ranch stadium that afternoon).
The Asian Breeze are a “tryout club” composed of respectable baseball talent hoping to get noticed by professional scouts. Three years removed from his final Dodgers appearance, it will be the closest Bauer has been to MLB-affiliated competition since. “No comment on that one,” manager Dave Roberts said Thursday when asked about Sunday’s outing. “No way.”
The Post’s Jon Heyman reported Thursday that the 33-year-old is still trying to catch on with an MLB club. “I don’t believe that I was given a lifetime ban,” the disgruntled pitcher said last month. “I have served my time. Do I not deserve an opportunity to come back?”
Bauer has not pitched in a major league game since 2021 after being placed on administrative leave over sexual assault allegations. He was initially suspended 324 games under MLB’s domestic violence policy in 2022 but reinstated after just 194 games after an arbitrator’s ruling that December.
