Opinion: Trevor Bauer must sit until MLB, Dodgers can find 'right result'

• Bauer has not been charged with a crime but faces accusations of sexual assault
• His legal team has said the encounters with the woman were consensual
• Pitcher was scheduled to start in Washington on Sunday but was placed on administrative leave

WASHINGTON — It was the Los Angeles Dodgers who went against the wishes of many of their fans and lavished $102 million on Trevor Bauer, who in a quainter time was merely known as an extremely online pitcher with a penchant for cyberbullying paired with a side of misogyny.

And it is the Los Angeles Dodgers who could determine that he never pitch for them again.

How much is a proud franchise’s dignity worth? Or the respect of tens of thousands of women in their fan base?

Bauer, the 30-year-old pitching maverick and reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, will not pitch for the Dodgers this weekend, nor next week, and perhaps not for many months. He has not been charged with a crime but faces accusations of  sexual assault brought by a 27-year-old San Diego woman who obtained a temporary restraining order against him.

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