Port ST. Luki – Sandy Alderson does not regret his team’s aggressive – and ultimately unsuccessful – pursuit of polarizing Trevor Bauer.
However, he admitted that the pitcher may have proved too difficult.
“It’s hard to know how it would have turned out, but we thought we could manage it,” Alderson said at a Zoom news conference on Monday. “Maybe she was naive.” we will see.”
Bauer signed a three-year, $ 102 million contract with the Dodgers in January last month, passing a slightly higher offer (three years and $ 105 million) from the Mets; Both deals opted out after both the 2021 and 2022 seasons. Since signing, Bauer has maintained his opaque Twitter personality, brutally attacking his teammates Noah Syndergaard and Marcus Strowman and giving opinions about immigration and race. In the past, Bauer dealt harshly with a female college student and did not stop his staunch followers from doing so.
Alderson said he never spoke directly with Bauer during the talks, though he did talk between the two with Bauer’s representatives and internally with the Mets officials on the issue.
“We knew the risks associated with some social-media stuff,” Alderson said. “We actually had some discussion internally with a group or groups in our organizations to talk about women.”
Alderson continued on Bauer: “First of all, he’s a quality player so we start there, and then we do our work through some other issues. We did a lot of homework on his social media.… His social -Talking about media presence and how it can be different from others and their social-media presence. Whether that presence was directed at a particular group of people or was just generally offensive. We do a lot It is not to say that there were still risks with it.
“We spoke extensively with agents (represented John Fetterolf and Rachel Luba Bauer).” I never talked to Trevor myself. We talked at length about what is necessary from the beginning about taking responsibility for what happened in the past and what might happen in the future.
“It’s not silly.” We spent a lot of time on it and realized that we were not naïve in it, ‘we can turn this guy around at once and turn him into something he wasn’t before,’ but I felt that we While we were communicating with him and becoming conscious of what was going on.
“We thought we could manage it. It’s possible that we won’t be able to, but at this point, we don’t have to worry about it.
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