Former Major League Baseball pitcher Trevor Bauer was involved in a frightening car accident in Scottsdale, Arizona on Wednesday, May 20, when his $600,000 McLaren was t-boned.
Bauer, 35, was uninjured in the crash, which happened when a sedan struck the driver’s side door, forcing the McLaren 765LT into a pole on a dirt path adjacent to the road, according to TMZ Sports.
The outlet obtained video of the pitcher emerging from the heavily damaged car to ask a witness, “Dude, what the f***?”
“Holy s***,” the witness recording the video could be heard saying. “Dude, don’t move too fast. That was a direct hit.”
People close to Bauer told TMZ that he was traveling in the right lane and obeying the speed limit when the accident occurred.
The other driver was also uninjured and police have not determined who was at fault.
A former Cy Young winner, Bauer has not pitched in the Major Leagues since 2021. He has since been accused of sexual assault by multiple women and was initially suspended by Major League Baseball for 324 games before an independent arbitrator knocked it down to 194 games.
Bauer has maintained his innocence and he never faced criminal charges.
Since 2021, he has pitched in Japan and Mexico, and is now on the injured list for the Long Island Ducks, an independent baseball team. He opened up about his effort to rejoin MLB in April when he told Dan Dakich on his “Don’t @ Me” podcast that he even offered to play for free.
“I’ve offered to go to the minor leagues,” he said. “I’ve offered to literally donate my entire salary back to the team’s foundation, to play literally for zero dollars. I’ve offered to give up control of my social media if that’s what the problem is. I’ve offered to not make content. I’ve offered to do, really, whatever.”
He added, “It just doesn’t feel like anything that I do is going to be sufficient. No matter how well I pitch or what I say or don’t say or whatever.”
Bauer also said he has come close to signing with multiple MLB teams before the deals inevitably fell apart.
“I don’t know exactly what goes on behind the scenes [in MLB], but I have my suspicions,” he said. “All I know is what the pattern is. I can’t tell you how many different times and teams we’ve talked to where the front office is on board, the players are on board. We’ve talked to PR. They’re on board. We talked to ownership. They’re on board…Then, nothing happens for two or three days and we get a call back with them saying, ‘Hey, we can’t really talk about this but, sorry, it’s not going to work out.’”
He continued, “When that pattern happens over multiple different organizations, over multiple different years … people can think what they want to think about it. I think what I think about it.”
