Trevor Bauer is yet again asking for another shot in the big leagues after Pete Rose’s reinstatement.
The controversial former MLB pitcher spoke out on social media on Wednesday, one day after the late Rose was reinstated, continuing his crusade against the league he claims is blackballing him.
“So, since Pete is welcome back now, does that go for everyone who has been blackballed?” Bauer wrote on X. “Or do you actually have to be guilty of something to qualify for that?”
Bauer, who is currently pitching in the Nippon Professional Baseball league in Japan, has been out of MLB for four years after sexual assault allegations were raised against him in 2021.
The league initially placed Bauer on administrative leave before eventually suspending him for 324 games, later reducing the ban to 194 upon appeal.
The 2020 National League Cy Young Award winner can re-sign with a new MLB team, but has yet to catch on with any of the 30 organizations stateside.
Bauer claimed last fall that it was “an MLB decision” whether he ever signs with another team.
At the time, the Daily Mail obtained a statement from an MLB spokesperson stating that Bauer is eligible to sign with any of its 30 clubs.
“Trevor Bauer served the entirety of his discipline and is an unrestricted free agent available to sign a contract with any team,” the statement read.
Bauer’s latest outcry comes a day after Rose, who was placed on the league’s permanently ineligible list in August 1989 for gambling on baseball while manager of the Reds, was reinstated by commissioner Rob Manfred.
The decision makes Rose, who died in September, eligible to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and will be considered by the Classic Baseball Era Committee in December 2027.
