A Court Orders Trevor Bauer's Accuser to Pay Him $310K in Damages

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There's a semi-famous story in legal circles about Raymond J. Donovan (not the titular Liev Schreiber character of the same name), the US Secretary of Labor who was criminally charged with fraud and larceny charges on a subway construction project. After he was found Not Guilty on all counts, Donovan met with reporters and offered a question that could be asked by anyone who's ever been accused and then exonerated. "Where do I go," he asked. "To get my reputation back?" Where indeed?

The larger point being that "High Profile Public Figure Gets Accused of Sensational Wrongdoing" is the stuff clickbait is made of. Big font across the top of the homepage, attention-grabbing material. But when months go by, the allegations fall apart and the accused beats the rap, it gets exponentially fewer eyeballs on the screen. "Whoops. Famous Person Found Not Guilty After All" gets buried somewhere below "Your Astrological Sign Can Determine Which 'Friends' Character You Are." I suppose out of a sense of guilt. No one wants to think that they were wrong to assume the worst about someone and ruin their life over something that was either not true or couldn't be proven. 

Which is exactly where Trevor Bauer stands today. He signed his last contract with the Dodgers in 2021. It was for 3-years, $102 million. That photo of him was from last season, when he was pitching in Mexico. As we speak, he's on a 1-year deal with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Japan. What happened between him putting his name on the line which is dotted in LA and a career of having to play baseball bilingually was this:

What I posted in October of 2023:

So you don't have to invest the five minutes it takes to watch it, Bauer claims he specifically refused to agree to any sort of gag order that would limit his ability to talk about the case. By way of full disclosure, it's important to point out that the video is heavily edited. And he doesn't offer up any context as to where the texts he shows came from. We're left to presume they're from Lindsey Hill and that they were given to his lawyers in the discovery phase of the lawsuits. The texts he shows seem to indicate:

--Hill describing Bauer as "Next victim. Star pitcher for the Dodgers."

--Hill asking a friend "What should I steal?" and getting the answer "Take his money."

--Another says "I'm going to his house Wednesday. I already have my hooks in," followed by what looks like a screengrab of their conversation and "You know how I roll." 

--Then he claims that after the first time they ahem "met," her texts read, "Net worth is 51 mil." and "bitch, you better secure the bag." 

--He asks how she planned to do that. And answers with texts that read, "need daddy to choke me out," and "Being an absolute WHORE to try and get in on his 51 million."

And after claiming that after the second time they met, Hill was texting former Padres pitcher Jacob Nix about her intentions and getting into the background of the court cases, Bauer drops the biggest bombshell, right around the 1:00 mark. It's video that appears to be the two of them laying in bed together. A video he says was "unlawfully concealed" from him and his legal team. One that he claims the metadata proves she took minutes before leaving his place. With her smirking at the camera and him sound asleep in a mask like Mr. Howell used to sleep in on Gilligan's Island.

Like I said then, I've never been a Trevor Bauer fan. He comes across - or better, came across at the time - like kind of a dink. The sort of arrogant narcissist you wouldn't want to have a beer with unless you planned to fire it down and say you have to be someplace else. Plus I added all the "allegedly"s, "is accused of"s and "reportedly"s necessary to make it clear I wasn't taking his side or presuming anything about what happened between him and Lindsey Hill during their (supposed) round of casual, commitment-free sportfucking. I made it clear we needed to let the legal system do its thing and see how it all plays out. 

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Well now it has. And so we are seeing:

… million." 

The case was settled without Bauer paying her a dime, though the damage to his career was already done. 

Yesterday, a California court awarded Trevor Bauer $309,832.02 in a default judgment against Hill after she LIED and claimed he paid her money to settle their lawsuit. (judgment attached) 

Hill has a criminal history, and a warrant out for her arrest for multiple charges in Kentucky, listed below. 

Read this thread and decide for yourself whether Trevor Bauer should be barred from MLB over this shady woman's accusations. 

Here are just a few of those "multiple charges in Kentucky, listed below":

And this same reporter interviewing Hill in October 2023:

But now we can - certainly Bauer can - drop all the qualifiers like "allegedly" and say the justice system has made up its mind. Hill owes Bauer almost $310 grand. He owes her 

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That's no longer opinion or speculation. It's objective fact. 

Now this is where it's going to get really interesting. There's a shortage of arms like Bauer's in MLB. There always is. But the question remains will any franchise in baseball be willing to take the inevitable heat that would come from signing him? Will any have the guts for the fight and argue he's had his day in court and was not only found Not Guilty, but declared by the court to be the party who suffered damages in all this. 

Like the clickbait news outlets burying headlines, this would require the Commissioner's office to admit they were wrong and did Bauer dirty. Until they're willing to show some integrity and grow some balls, he'll keep having to lead this nomadic baseball existence like he's Roy Hobbs after getting shot by Harriet Byrd. We'll know eventually which path MLB will take with this guy.

At least he's $310K richer. Just without ever getting his reputation back.