Trevor Bauer

On March 26, he struck out his 329th college batter in a complete game shutout of the University of Southern California, passing Alex Sanchez' strikeout record from 1987.

Trevor Andrew Bauer (born January 17, 1991) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent.

He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Dodgers and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

After starring as a pitcher for three seasons at William S. Hart High School, Bauer graduated a year early and enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Bauer was born on January 17, 1991, in North Hollywood, California.

From a young age, Bauer was fascinated by baseball pitchers like Atlanta Braves players Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, and John Smoltz.

His parents Warren and Kathy paid for pitching lessons from a private coach, and in his free time, he would practice pitching against the fence of a local tennis court.

Bauer had few friends in school and experienced bullying for his obsession with baseball.

He continued to practice his technique at William S. Hart High School in Santa Clarita, and he spent the summers at a baseball camp in Texas.

As a junior in 2008, Bauer posted a 12–0 win–loss record with a 0.79 earned run average (ERA), and his fastball reached speeds of up to 92 mph. His final high school game was a playoff shutout against Canyon Springs High School that Hart took 4–0.

Bauer chose to graduate after his junior season, in part because he meshed poorly with many of his teammates, including future Major League Baseball (MLB) player Mike Montgomery.

After graduating from high school, Bauer attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to study mechanical engineering.

There, he joined the UCLA Bruins baseball team in the same class as Gerrit Cole.

The two formed a rivalry that began, according to Bauer, when Cole told him that he had "no future in baseball".

At the end of their freshman season in 2009, Bauer led the team with nine wins, a 2.99 ERA.

and 105 1⁄3 innings pitched, also getting named the Pac-10 Conference Baseball Newcomer of the Year.

That summer, he played for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team, going 1–1 with a 4.67 ERA in five games, three of which were starts, and striking out 24 batters in 17 1⁄3 innings.

He and fellow ace Gerrit Cole helped lead the UCLA Bruins to a 22-game winning streak and a College World Series appearance as sophomores in 2010.

The following year, Bauer won both the Golden Spikes Award and the National Pitcher of the Year Award.

Cole and Bauer combined in 2010 to push the Bruins to a 10–0 start, the best record to begin the season since the school started keeping track in the 1950s.

Bauer was 2–0 with a 2.45 ERA in those first 10 games, and he and Cole combined for 49 strikeouts in 32 2⁄3 innings.

The Bruins ultimately built a 22-game winning streak before April 3, when the Stanford Cardinal were able to capitalize on a fifth-inning error by the UCLA shortstop, as Stanford defeated UCLA 8–4, giving Bauer his first loss in over a year.

UCLA continued to dominate in the postseason, with Bauer taking the win in a 10–3 rout of Texas Christian to lead UCLA to its first ever College World Series Championship Series.

South Carolina swept UCLA in the best-of-three series to win the championship.

The Diamondbacks selected him third overall at the 2011 MLB Draft.

Bauer made his major league debut the following June, becoming the first member of his draft class to reach the majors.

Bauer set a number of UCLA records as a junior in 2011.

Bauer clashed with his Diamondbacks teammates during the 2012 season.

In December 2012, he was traded to the Cleveland Indians.

He spent the first two seasons there retooling his pitching approach and repairing mechanics after a 2012 injury.

By 2016, he had emerged as a regular force in the Indians' starting rotation, but shortly after his first MLB All-Star Game appearance in 2018, Bauer's career trajectory was interrupted by a stress fracture that kept him out of the rotation until the end of the season.

On April 16, he recorded his 28th career win in a 4–0 victory over the Arizona Wildcats, gaining a 28–7 record and passing Sanchez as the UCLA all-time wins leader.

For the season, he led the school with 460 strikeouts, 34 wins, and 373 1⁄3 innings pitched.

For his efforts that year, Bauer won the National Pitcher of the Year Award, awarded by the College Baseball Foundation.

Bauer struggled during the 2019 season, both with Cleveland and with Cincinnati, but he followed this effort with his first Cy Young Award during the 60-game 2020 MLB season, becoming the first Reds player to win the award.

A free agent after the 2020 season, Bauer signed a three-year contract with the Dodgers in February 2021.

He led the league in both strikeouts and innings pitched through July 2 but spent the rest of the season on administrative leave imposed by MLB as they investigated sexual assault allegations made against him, which continued into the following season.

On April 29, 2022, the league announced that Bauer would be suspended for 324 games as a result of their investigation, which was later reduced to 194 on appeal.

The Dodgers released him on January 12, 2023, rather than restoring him to the active roster.

Following this, Bauer signed with the BayStars.