This came up in the KU thread as a hypothetical. What makes you so sure of that? The MLB suspensions aren’t beholden to the eventual outcome in the courts. Even if they were their decision wasn’t based on this one account.
I’m no lawyer but I don’t see how the MLB is culpable at all.
Right. Just because they settled this case, it does not mean he is exonerated in this case or the others that are still pending. MLB was within its rights to suspend him regardless of the outcome of the criminal cases.
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Under MLB policy, a player can be suspended even if he was not charged with a crime. After an investigation that included interviews with Hill and other women who had made similar allegations against Bauer, Commissioner Rob Manfred suspended him for two years, later reduced by an arbitrator to 194 games.
The Dodgers released Bauer in January, paying him the $22.5 million owed for this season. Under the suspension, Bauer lost $37.5 million in salary from his three-year, $102-million contract."
Bauer sued a San Diego woman, Lindsey Hill, for defamation. She countersued for assault and sexual battery. Neither side will pay money to the other.
www.latimes.com