According to Nikkan Sports, sources revealed that Trevor Bauer is about to return to professional baseball and will officially announce his return to Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars in the near future. And he said in an interview a few days ago that he hopes to return to Japan to write an unprecedented record.

In an interview with Ryan Pineda on his YouTube channel, Bauer was asked about his next steps and said he thinks he can still perform at the highest level for three to four years before he starts to decline, "so I wanted to do something cool." I'd love to win the Sawamura Award in Japan, it's the Japanese version of the Celerian Award, and no one has won both of these awards, which is what I want to do before the end of my career."

Bauer, who just turned 34 on the 17th, was selected with the 3rd pick in the first round of the 2011 rookie draft, and shot 1,297.2 innings in 10 seasons of his major league career, with 9.8 strikeouts, 3.4 and four bad innings every 9 innings, and a defense rate of 3.79.

In the 2020 shrinking season, Bauer won the only Cy Young Award in his career with a defense rate of 1.73 in 73 innings and a 12.3 strikeouts and 2.1 bad performances per 9 innings. This is also the year he began to talk publicly about the fact that major league pitchers will smear grease on the ball, and some pitchers have even reached the point of cheating on the ball, which has sparked a lot of discussion and the norms of the major leagues.

In 2021, Bauer joined the Los Angeles Dodgers on a three-year, $102 million contract, but then domestic violence broke out, and a woman with whom he had an intimate relationship accused him of violence, which led to the largest 324-game ban in history. Although the arbitrator ordered him to be immediately released after a 194-game suspension, he was immediately released by the Dodgers and no major league team signed him again.

In the 2023 season, Bauer switched to Japanese professional baseball, playing 130.2 games for DeNA, throwing 9.0 strikeouts and 2.1 four bad shots every 9 innings, with a defense rate of 2.76, and last year he joined the Mexican Red Devils of professional baseball, with 13.0 strikeouts and 2.3 four bad in every 9 innings in 83.1 innings, with a defense rate of 2.48, helping the Red Devils win the championship, and now it is rumored that he is about to return to his Japanese job.