{"id":577856,"date":"2026-04-02T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577856\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:06:09","slug":"trevor-bauer-signs-with-long-island-ducks-for-u-s-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577856\/","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Bauer signs with Long Island Ducks for U.S. return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. &#8212; Former Cy Young winner Trevor Bauer has signed with the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League and is scheduled to pitch opening night April 21 for the minor league team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Ducks announced the signing Thursday for Bauer\u2019s 15th professional season. Bauer also will be \u201cMic\u2019d Up\u201d for all games and practices, helping create content for both his and the team\u2019s outlets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bauer has been trying to revive his big league career after serving a 194-game suspension for violating MLB\u2019s domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse policy. He was never charged with a crime in the matter. Civil claims against him were settled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to competing in front of U.S. fans again this season,\u201d Bauer said in a statement. \u201cThe Ducks have had some incredible players come through their organization, and I\u2019m excited to be part of that tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bauer was released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> in January 2023, and the right-hander pitched in Japan last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He signed a five-game contract with the Diablos Rojos of Mexico City last year before agreeing to stay for the reminder of the season. Bauer was named the Mexican Baseball League\u2019s pitcher of the year in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. &#8212; Former Cy Young winner Trevor Bauer has signed with the Long Island Ducks of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-577856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}