MLB announced this afternoon that it has suspended Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer 324 games, or the length of two full regular seasons, for violating its domestic violence policy.
This is the biggest story in baseball today, so I’ll use the beginning of this newsletter to share Stephanie Apstein’s report of the suspension. The five tools will follow below, as usual.
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1. THE OPENER
“As Anthony Rizzo’s free agency stretched into its fifth month, he realized two things: After a disappointing 2020 and ’21, ‘the deal that I once envisioned wasn’t gonna be there,’ he says.