Trevor Bauer is undoubtedly the most abrasive pitcher in MLB. He knows you probably don’t like him, and he doesn’t care.
Bauer has been calling out the Astros for cheating long before it was cool. In 2018, he accused Astros pitchers of illegally doctoring the baseball and made a start against Houston in which his spin rate mysteriously jumped. An article published Monday at Fangraphs suggested Bauer may have conducted some other spin rate experiment in 2019.
There’s no question about what he did in Monday’s spring training start, though. Facing his first hitter of the day, Bauer decided to just straight-up tell one batter what was coming.