Let's talk about Trevor Bauer

[Frayed Knot]

=Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=55439 time=1612483443 user_id=119]... I'd love to know if there is contract language about keeping his social media stuff under control.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Heyman says it's three years, $100 million. With the opt-out after 2021 as mentioned above.

[Centerfield]

Sandy loves that Yoenis-style contract.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The latest I heard is that it's three years, $93 million, with $37 million the first year and then an opt-out. So if Bauer has a great year he'll opt out, and if he sucks he still gets two more years at $28 million each. Good deal for him.



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[Fman99]

After the PR shit show that the Porter & Callaway stories have been, I'm also curious to know what kind of measures they can take to keep Trevor Bauer from, you know, Trevor Bauer-ing all over the place and making a mess of things.

[Edgy MD]

I realize I didn't see the Reds at all last season, and it's interesting how that already questionable right-breast number-on-front conflicts with the swoosh.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He's an arrogant douche no doubt.



--much of the more "controversial" aspects of his arrogance and douchery come off to me as an act



--most top athletes seem to require some degree of internal arrogance; Bauer's thing is turning it outward and getting off on having done that



--The Mets have gotten scorched on careless hires



I think "short leash" is the way to go with this douche.

[Edgy MD]

That's what's odd about the one-year opt-out. He would have the Mets on a shorter leash than they would have him on.

[kcmets]

Unofficially, he's a Met!

[kcmets]

14 hour old pop up on my tablet, please ignore the man behind the curtain.

[MFS62]

14 hour old pop up on my tablet, please ignore the man behind the curtain.

ABC-TV New York did the same thing last night on the 5:30 newscast. Leaning into the commercial before the sports report, they announced upcoming story about, "The newest Met".

Just a tease to keep us waiting for ..... nothing new, just that the negotiations were ongoing.

Sneaky bastages, toying with us.



Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

I don't like that tweet by his agent: "Down to 2". There's something show-offy or off-putting or attention-getting about that.

[Edgy MD]

She's a kid. This negotiation is seemingly very much about her brand advancement.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: She's a kid. This negotiation is seemingly very much about her brand advancement.

It's amateurish. And how does a "kid" nail down a big name client like Bauer?

[G-Fafif]

Resolution soon, reportedly by noon. Davidoff and Sherman:

The Mets have put Trevor Bauer on the clock. The Post has learned that the Mets set a noon deadline Eastern time Friday for Bauer, the free-agent starting pitcher, to take or leave their offer that totals between $100 million and $110 million over three years. The package features opt-outs for Bauer after both 2021 and 2022. The proposal pays Bauer high salaries for the first two years — about $40 million each season — with a drop for 2023. With the Mets concerned that the Southern California native Bauer prefers the Dodgers, the other team in the mix for the reigning NL Cy Young winner, they felt compelled to press the right-hander for the decision one way or the other.

https://nypost.com/2021/02/05/mets-set-deadline-for-trevor-bauer-decision-after-making-huge-offer/https://nypost.com/2021/02/05/mets-set-deadline-for-trevor-bauer-decision-after-making-huge-offer/

[MFS62]

It's amateurish. And how does a "kid" nail down a big name client like Bauer?

According to a story I read a few months ago, she had read that he was unsatisfied with his agent, so she just asked him.

Later

[smg58]

They would have had a lot more leverage with the deadline if they had set it while there were still multiple plan Bs on the table. As it stands, it's signing Bauer or choosing to go under budget when nobody was imposing financial constraints from above.

[A Boy Named Seo]

She's young but she's talented. She was a buddy of Trevor's from UCLA, but she's also a take-no-shit lawyer who worked for MLBPA.

[Willets Point]

I don't really know anything about Bauer. What exactly is the nature of his controversial comments? Does he trash talk opponents or is a he a QAnon supporter? Or somewhere in-between?

[Edgy MD]

Somewhere in between is probably most accurate, but leaning to the latter.



Baiting supporter of no-account conspiracy mongering. Sics his followers on people who dare to challenge him, accepts no blame for the pile on (and worse) that his followers may take part in, which is almost a textbook no-acccount move.

[Willets Point]

Ugh.

[MFS62]

12:14 PM

Nada



Later

[Willets Point]

His Twitter handle is @BauerOutage which seems like a bad metaphor to me. Shouldn't it be @BauerStation or @IGotTheBauer or something that doesn't sound like he's failing?

[Fman99]

I think it's implying that he produces a lot of outs? I dunno.

[Edgy MD]

@BauerOfReckoning



@TheWitchingBauer



@BauerOfPower

[MFS62]

From SNY:

Feb. 5, 12:01 p.m. There are "mixed signals at best" from people involved in the Bauer talks regarding whether there was a 12 p.m. ET deadline from the Mets, reports SNY's Andy Martino. Joel Sherman of The New York Post reported earlier Friday that the Mets had given Bauer until 12 p.m. ET on Friday to accept their offer.

Later

[Willets Point]

=Fman99 post_id=55479 time=1612545760 user_id=86]
I think it's implying that he produces a lot of outs? I dunno.

[metsmarathon]

man, i'm conflicted about the dude. i mean on a personal level. i think so much of him is just a social awkwardness and forced contrarianism that comes across as a massive asshole. and maybe he really is a narcissistic asshole, who isn't nearly aware enough of other people.



i don't know that he's necessarily clubhouse poison, unless a team demands he fit into a mold he clearly doesn't fit.



and i surely don't think he rises to the level of terribleness that mickey and porter have reached.



he also doesn't like calloway, or especially gerrit cole, so there's that.



it could all fall apart, and he could be an intolerable asshole, i suppose. but there are certainly worse people in baseball available, which is faint praise to be sure.

[Centerfield]

Willets Point wrote: =Fman99 post_id=55479 time=1612545760 user_id=86] I think it's implying that he produces a lot of outs? I dunno.

I guess that's fair.

[Edgy MD]

=metsmarathon post_id=55483 time=1612546147 user_id=83]but there are certainly worse people in baseball available, which is faint praise to be sure.