Bauer gave real interviews and criticized all kinds of baseball wokeness. Was rumored to be a Trump guy. My brother is a Dodger fan and says he was smeared. That chick was fired by the Padres for dubious relationships with players.
But the media blew the trumpet and everybody piled on.
Being a Dodgers fan (yeh, I know) from childhood I’ve kind of followed this from the beginning. Bauer is a egotistical self promoter, but then many athletes are since everyone they know have been telling them how great they are since childhood. But that aside, he really has been targeted by the athlete groupies and stupidly fell for their scams. But to me the real villains in this snafu were the press reporters who jumped on the “believe all women” bandwagon and declared him guilty before he was convicted of anything. But there are still other women’s accusations to confront so something may yet snag his innocence claims. I’m keeping an open mind for now.