Trevor Bauer is butting heads with Major League Baseball once again.
The outspoken Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher was given a warning by MLB for violating its uniform regulations in multiple spring training games.
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Bauer posted the letter on Twitter and called out the league for its failure to allow players to market themselves.
The letter, which was from MLB’s senior vice president of on-field operations Michael Hill, detailed that he violated Section D (2), which “prohibits you from having corporate identification or any other logos visible on any part of the undershirt (except for you club’s logo, the Major League Baseball silhouetted batter logo, or another logo jointly approved by Major League Baseball and the Players Association). An unauthorized logo was visible on your undershirt during your club’s spring training games on both March 6, 2021 and March 11, 2021.”
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The letter also specifically mentioned a corporate logo visible on Bauer’s belt and threatened that if it happened again he would be subjected discipline, including a fine.
The logo in question is from Bauer’s personal brand — a lowercase b with a lightning bolt — which can be seen on merchandise he sells on his website, trevorbauer.com.
The 30-year-old right-hander, who recently signed a three-year, $102 million deal with the Dodgers to become the highest-paid pitcher in baseball on an annual average, has become one of the league’s most polarizing players because of his outspokenness.
Bauer advocates analytics and growing the game to attract younger audiences, which often results in him being critical of MLB itself and its failures to do these things.
Surely, this won’t be the last time we hear from Bauer on this matter.
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