Trevor Bauer Rips Both Sides in Major League Baseball Stalemate
Trevor Bauer is as outspoken as Major League Baseball players come, and on Monday the Cincinnati Reds righty took to Twitter and ripped both sides in the league's labor standoff. Bauer essentially said the current posture of the owners and players will lead to the death of the sport.
Bauer's Twitter rant is below:
It’s absolute death for this industry to keep acting as it has been. Both sides. We’re driving the bus straight off a cliff. How is this good for anyone involved? Covid 19 already presented a lose lose lose situation and we’ve somehow found a way to make it worse. Incredible. ??♂️
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) June 22, 2020
If there’s going to be a fight the time for that fight is after the ‘21 season when a new CBA is negotiated. 5 years of potential change. We’re doing irreparable damage to our industry right now over rules that last AT MOST 16 months. WTF kind of sense does that make? ??♂️??♂️??♂️
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) June 22, 2020
I have so much more I want to say about this whole thing but out of respect to my fellow players I’m going to continue holding my tongue. If any of you would like to talk about it please hit me up privately.
— Trevor Bauer (@BauerOutage) June 22, 2020
This is really hard for me to say but is ... Trevor Bauer the sane one in all this?
The owners and players both had easy paths to doing the right thing and being lauded for it. Instead there has been absurd in-fighting and lobbed shots at the other side consistently for months. In all that time no one in either camp has successfully grown up and attempted to bridge the gap.
Now the league is at a crossroads and we may not even get a 2020 season. After that, the collective bargaining agreement negotiations in 2021 that are sure to rock the MLB to its core. The agreement on the 2020 season should have been the easy part in all of this. Instead it's been an insane slog during which very little has made sense.
Trevor Bauer is tired of it, as are baseball fans.