With Gerrit Cole out for two months and Blake Snell off the board, Trevor Bauer once again came up in conversation among Yankee fans as a potential low-cost addition to the starting rotation.
Keith opened Monday night’s show declaring that the Yanks should have no part in Bauer, who served a record suspension after being investigated following claims of sexual assault.
“We gotta do better as grown men…sons that love their mothers, fathers who have daughters,” Keith said. “It’s hard to talk about what this guy actually did and why he’s barred now. He was hit with an A-Rod type suspension.
He’s already played for 10 percent of the league, and I think the other 90 percent knows not to touch him. The things we’ve learned about Trevor Bauer are extremely dark.”
Bauer has settled one sexual assault case but has another active one pending, and will pitch against the Yankees in preseason action in Mexico City. Keith wants no part of Bauer coming back with the Yankees after that outing, and says fans shouldn’t want that either.
“So many guys that are so focused on baseball, so stuck in the sports world and entertainment, don’t understand that in the real world, this guy was an absolute predator,” Keith said. “This guy did things to women that’s hard to speak of on air.
“I ask you, as a man, to not think about your starting rotation, your franchise. Think about the fact that there is way more than we know out there about this guy, and we don’t want to know.”