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After ESPN says it had nothing to do with joke tweet, Trevor Bauer apologizes

CLEVELAND– Indians starting pitcher Trevor Bauer took to Twitter on Monday to issue an apology to ESPN.

If you haven’t been following along, there has been no shortage of controversy surrounding Bauer and a fake report about his health over the last few days. On Saturday, the Indians announced he will miss four to six weeks with a stress fracture in his right fibula. Michael Baumann, a reporter from The Ringer, put up a joke tweet about Bauer seeking “alternative methods” to return to the field faster:

Trevor Bauer says that the doctors' timeline for his return is based on outdated mainstream medicine and he's begun a course of blood transfusions and colloidal silver to rid his body of CIA nanites.