Now a Pink, Bauer shrugs off Francona’s considerations
Proper-hander Trevor Bauer was formally traded from the Cleveland Indians to the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday, however he was nonetheless readily available because the Tribe took on the Houston Astros at Progressive Subject.
Bauer additionally met with Indians supervisor Terry Francona for a ultimate time. Francona stated the assembly with Bauer was “fairly brief” and it introduced him aid.
“Typically it is emotional, and generally it is not fairly as emotional,” Francona stated. “That is simply being trustworthy.”
Francona acknowledged that he was involved about long-term results inside the workforce following Bauer’s spectacle Sunday, when he angrily threw a ball from behind the mound over the center-field wall in Kansas Metropolis. Bauer later referred to as the act “infantile” and was fined by Main League Baseball.
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“I had considerations what it may do to our workforce, and I voiced these considerations,” Francona instructed reporters. “I might by no means, ever go inform [the front office] one thing, however they’re ok to at all times enable me my opinion, and also you simply attempt to do the very best you possibly can, and I would be mendacity if I stated I wasn’t a bit of bit apprehensive.”
Bauer, who met with Cleveland reporters throughout Wednesday’s sport, reacted with a smile and a protracted exhale when instructed of Francona’s feedback.
“Properly, I am not on the workforce. So none of that actually issues,” he stated.
Bauer added that he has been pitching with an assortment of accidents — torn ankle ligaments, again spasms — since early this season.
“It has been actually irritating,” he stated. “One of many issues I am most proud about is I have never missed a begin this yr by way of two months of in all probability needing to be on the IL and possibly ought to have missed some begins. I used to be in a position to get myself prepared and take the ball.”
Indians supervisor Terry Francona, left, and pitcher Trevor Bauer met briefly on Wednesday, a day after the Indians traded Bauer to the Cincinnati Reds. Francona stated the assembly introduced him aid. Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports activities
Among the many gamers the Indians acquired again within the three-team, seven-player swap is mercurial outfielder Yasiel Puig, who was anticipated to reach in Cleveland late Wednesday. Puig had a memorable departure from Cincinnati on Tuesday, when he ended up in the midst of a benches-clearing brawl with the Pirates shortly after the commerce was agreed upon.
Francona watched the brawl unfold on a TV in his workplace however stated he is not apprehensive about Puig being a troublemaker. MLB has but to announce any self-discipline.
“I want to speak to him. I must ask him what’s necessary to him,” Francona stated. “The truth that he might have finished one thing 4 years in the past in L.A. does not have an effect on how he’ll be handled right here.”
However what about final evening?
“I can let you know that if one thing ever occurs, I will be behind him each step of the way in which,” Francona stated.