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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Trevor Bauer is Ready to Play in the MLB Again' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-06. Transcript available.

but as far as like updating the software and stuff i think i'll be happy in in
five or ten years that
like changes that i've made because of this experience um have helped me like
grow as a
person wow fuck dude you're fucking in it's a it is a high road attitude um to
hear from you for me
like i can't i can't go any other road because it'll just it's poisonous yeah
um what's next then
what's next how do we get to see you because i want to see you go for that
second side yeah i'm
gonna be really really honest with you yeah i'd love to i mean that's the goal
like i'd like to play
uh in mlb um you know looking for looking for a contract and um yeah i mean i
still i've been
training the whole time like we talked earlier about how baseball is like my
backdrop like when
things go bad i go back to this and this has been one of the most difficult
things is like
when baseball is taken away like what do i fall back on so i just fell back on
training so i'm in
you know i i've improved like since last people saw me like i i'm throwing
harder i've developed new
pitches my command's better i'm still one of the best pitchers in the world um
i'd love to prove that
obviously i realize there's a lot of uh you know other considerations besides
just talent um at
this point so i'm hopeful that i get a job and i get an opportunity to go out
and and prove that i'm
good and i have a lot to offer i think i got a lot to offer the baseball
community as a whole with
yeah content entertainment and and all that i have a lot to offer a team like
one of the things i'm
really passionate about is helping young baseball players have their journey be
easier than mine so we
actually train i think we got like 20 guys that we train for free at my
facility in in arizona in
the off season pro guys that come in i've been working with all the pitchers
there and developing
pitches and feel and mindset and all that stuff i love that stuff so i have a
lot to offer from that
perspective i think to a team and clubhouse that i'm with um obviously like
performance like you got
to win games i know i can do that that's not even a question in my mind so what
was like the financial
because you were making good money yeah right yeah i signed um so i won the psy
young 2020
and then that was your contract year i was a free agent after that yeah wow
yeah yeah that is a
dream very fortunate look i love it when dudes get paid that's what george kittle
told me he goes
where everybody's happy when somebody gets paid man yeah for sure so you had
three years 102 million yeah
so that it was a kind of a unique structure the plan i had opt-outs after every
year the plan was always
to the first play the first two years and then opt out and be a free agent
after the third and i
would have been two years for 85 million the way the contract worked out so an
average value of 42 and
a half million a year wow um which was the highest annual average value at that
time for any baseball
player i think shohei just crushed no way you were like the top of the heat
yeah yeah wow and did they
still have to pay you a certain amount of that yeah um i got some of it i also
lost some of it in the
you know i think um i don't remember exactly what the numbers shook out to be
but i lost a significant
amount of it with the suspension and stuff like that so and was it expensive
like the attorney fees and
all that yeah man lawyers are uh very much needed like very specialized and
like you know you need
you need them but um very expensive yeah so it's been um obviously baseball has
given me a lot
financially um i'm doing fine i don't want to come off like i'm you know not
fine but uh it's been a
heavy heavy hit for sure um and how do your agents like do you try to go back
at the same rate like
how does that even work is that fair to ask you about yeah yeah that's fine um
i don't like i just
want to play like that's that's where i'm at um like i'll play for league
minimum and like earn my
money based on incentives like i i don't care whatever whatever the structure
for the team is like that
makes them most comfortable like i it's fine with me you heard i just i just
want to go play yeah you
know yeah incentive based right yeah you want to you i'll show you if yeah if
you sign me and like
something's not going right and you don't like the reaction or you don't
whatever like you can cut me
and then you don't have to bear the um you know the brunt of signing this let's
say it's a 10 million
dollar contract and you know something's not going right and you still have to
pay the 10 million i i
don't i don't need that like i just want to i want a job i want to go play and
let me just prove that
i'm still one of the best pitchers let me prove that i have a lot to offer the
organization and then
i'll get paid an incentives i'll earn based on what i perform i'm happy with
that um i've never
like i've always wanted to be that way too like it's i've i've only wanted to
sign one year contracts
because i never want to be the guy that signs a long-term deal and then it's
like okay well i'm
getting paid regardless so performance doesn't matter and i'm just gonna like
play out my years or
whatever i'm just gonna get massages or whatever paint my nails or whatever
yeah like shout out to
the guys that paint their nails no problem with it but yeah no judgment yeah
but uh like i
i'm an intense competitor and i just want to go compete right and like i would
like to be compensated
fairly for what i produce so if i produce nothing i don't feel like i should be
compensated anything
if i'm the best pitcher in the league i feel like i should be compensated for
being the best pitcher in
the league and the easiest way to do that is just like minimum risk for the
team i'll play for the
minimum and then if i pitch really well then have incentives that reward me for
pitching really
well and the value that i give to the team is equally shared and both sides
feel like they won
um wow i'm i'm happy to have any sort of like like yeah i want to work together
with the team i want to
be a positive in the community in the clubhouse on the field like overall for
the game of baseball
um i know that i can be that i have no questions about it which is why i have
no problem taking like a
incentive-based contract because i know that i can go out there and deliver um
i know the type of
person that i am i know the type of results that i'll be able to produce and i'm
willing to bet on
myself in that way amen but at the at the end of the day like i just i just
want to compete like i
just want a chance to go compete and like do the thing that i've spent 30 years
becoming one of the
best in the world at and the thing that i love to do um bro i would if i had a
team if i had even
if we had a spot here i'd hire you right now i'd hire you to pitch what would
you what would you
call it what's your what's your team name be oh that's a great question huh put
you on the spot
what's a good team name probably maybe uh the reverb or the lisps the lisps
yeah yeah dude there's so
many teams how many teams are that you could play for so many teams yeah we got
30 30 teams out there
um bro some of them are bad dude they need you i'm not i mean some of these
teams are dang bad yeah
or they could be doing they could you could maybe help yeah i think i could i
mean i don't think
there's a team out there that i wouldn't help in some way right um but i also
you know seeing the
other side of things like there's a lot of uh you know potential uh
distractions pr concerns um i don't
think they're i don't think they would be as much as people think they would be
i think it'd be like
a couple days story and then it'd be gone personally i i could be wrong but um
you think there'd be some
publications out there that would feel like hey the best the least a way that
we could be supportive
after you know maybe leading the charge with not being as supportive with
trying to even the score
you know yeah but i don't know that's my thoughts yeah i mean it'd be nice of
course but um i'm not
gonna it's out of your control yeah if it happens it happens like mookie coming
out and saying some
stuff publicly was like uh i would never ask him to do that he just did that so
like it meant a lot to
me wow mookie's my guy i love that guy mainly like i just i just want to i want
to play man i haven't
i i miss competing i'm yeah was it tough to were there certain parts of the
season that are tougher
to watch like when it gets in a plaster it's all just kind of tough it's been
tough to watch baseball
um because like i know i'm good enough to be out there and i i want to be out
there and i haven't
i haven't had the opportunity to be out there um when i was in japan last year
i watched a lot of games
because i was like okay i'm i'm here i'm playing i'm like in it i can respect
what the other people
are doing i can learn from it i'm like figuring things out and that was nice to
have some of that
back i just haven't i don't think it's been healthy for me to like consume mlb
content the
last couple years um which is sad because like everything that i've tried to
build is like grow that
entity and to like help right build it and then um i'm still involved in doing
that i'm still but
i'm just pursuing in a slightly different way where i'm not even like i'm not
really watching games and
um i'd like to get back to a place where i can like watch and like be
interested and like appreciate
the great things that other people in the league are doing i just had to like
be a little bit
protective of my of my uh mental health on on that front but yeah because it
would just kind of it
would just break your heart probably yeah it was tough man like seeing what
other guys are doing
and not being able to be happy for them feeling that resentment of like well i
should be out there
being able to compete too um i don't like i never i i don't you should have
been there's no reason
yeah i can't even imagine i don't like being negative towards other people and
like feeling
envious of other people's accomplishments i like to look at things and be like
wow this person is
really really good and i can appreciate it because i do it in all other sports
like i watch brady play
and i'm like i'm gonna watch as much of this as possible because he's gonna be
gone at some point
and like you got to appreciate what's what this is yeah same with saving saving
at bama yeah um and
and mahomes right now i do that with and caitlin clark or what me and caleb
presley want to come to
your um game and again uh so if we if he can help us sorry i just had to say
that out loud dude love
it mr pete that's what i call it she's a i love watching her yeah um but yeah
man yeah it's i think
because if you if there was no there was no criminal wrongdoing there was
nothing wrong yeah there was
nothing wrong yeah um you can find things that if you look at yourself yes i
could adjust some of
these behaviors and stuff yeah but as a human being behaving in the world to
not have done anything
wrong yeah and to have it's really just a trial that you've been through it's
almost like a
scarlet letter you know it was like a scarlet letter yeah in a way you know
yeah you get branded
with something and then you carry it i'll carry it the rest of my life like i'll
always be known for this
in some way and hopefully over time it'll be less and all the positive things
that i do will get more
attention and be more synonymous with my brand but like this will always be
there um which is which is
tough it's tough to i can't even imagine i can't think about it too much you
know yeah yeah because it's
just such a it's such an anomaly yeah you know um but god dude that yeah we
just got to see you back
out there there's no valid reason why you shouldn't be back out there yeah i
appreciate you saying that
like i there's no valid it doesn't even make nothing i if the universe doesn't
make this happen
it doesn't even make any sense anymore yeah yeah i uh i'm hopeful that it will
i'm hopeful that well
i i just i would like to entertain people i'd like to to pitch i'd like to win
when does spring
training start uh usually like second week around valentine's day second week
of february
some teams are like february 12th some teams like february 16th it's like they
all kind of
reported different dates but yeah middle of february wow date with the diamond
huh yeah and that's not
dustin poria i'm talking about uh baseball diamond yeah yeah yeah we could see
it bro

Trevor Bauer is Ready to Play in the MLB Again

but as far as like updating the software and stuff i think i'll be happy in in
five or ten years that
like changes that i've made because of this experience um have helped me like
grow as a
person wow fuck dude you're fucking in it's a it is a high road attitude um to
hear from you for me
like i can't i can't go any other road because it'll just it's poisonous yeah
um what's next then
what's next how do we get to see you because i want to see you go for that
second side yeah i'm
gonna be really really honest with you yeah i'd love to i mean that's the goal
like i'd like to play
uh in mlb um you know looking for looking for a contract and um yeah i mean i
still i've been
training the whole time like we talked earlier about how baseball is like my
backdrop like when
things go bad i go back to this and this has been one of the most difficult
things is like
when baseball is taken away like what do i fall back on so i just fell back on
training so i'm in
you know i i've improved like since last people saw me like i i'm throwing
harder i've developed new
pitches my command's better i'm still one of the best pitchers in the world um
i'd love to prove that
obviously i realize there's a lot of uh you know other considerations besides
just talent um at
this point so i'm hopeful that i get a job and i get an opportunity to go out
and and prove that i'm
good and i have a lot to offer i think i got a lot to offer the baseball
community as a whole with
yeah content entertainment and and all that i have a lot to offer a team like
one of the things i'm
really passionate about is helping young baseball players have their journey be
easier than mine so we
actually train i think we got like 20 guys that we train for free at my
facility in in arizona in
the off season pro guys that come in i've been working with all the pitchers
there and developing
pitches and feel and mindset and all that stuff i love that stuff so i have a
lot to offer from that
perspective i think to a team and clubhouse that i'm with um obviously like
performance like you got
to win games i know i can do that that's not even a question in my mind so what
was like the financial
because you were making good money yeah right yeah i signed um so i won the psy
young 2020
and then that was your contract year i was a free agent after that yeah wow
yeah yeah that is a
dream very fortunate look i love it when dudes get paid that's what george kittle
told me he goes
where everybody's happy when somebody gets paid man yeah for sure so you had
three years 102 million yeah
so that it was a kind of a unique structure the plan i had opt-outs after every
year the plan was always
to the first play the first two years and then opt out and be a free agent
after the third and i
would have been two years for 85 million the way the contract worked out so an
average value of 42 and
a half million a year wow um which was the highest annual average value at that
time for any baseball
player i think shohei just crushed no way you were like the top of the heat
yeah yeah wow and did they
still have to pay you a certain amount of that yeah um i got some of it i also
lost some of it in the
you know i think um i don't remember exactly what the numbers shook out to be
but i lost a significant
amount of it with the suspension and stuff like that so and was it expensive
like the attorney fees and
all that yeah man lawyers are uh very much needed like very specialized and
like you know you need
you need them but um very expensive yeah so it's been um obviously baseball has
given me a lot
financially um i'm doing fine i don't want to come off like i'm you know not
fine but uh it's been a
heavy heavy hit for sure um and how do your agents like do you try to go back
at the same rate like
how does that even work is that fair to ask you about yeah yeah that's fine um
i don't like i just
want to play like that's that's where i'm at um like i'll play for league
minimum and like earn my
money based on incentives like i i don't care whatever whatever the structure
for the team is like that
makes them most comfortable like i it's fine with me you heard i just i just
want to go play yeah you
know yeah incentive based right yeah you want to you i'll show you if yeah if
you sign me and like
something's not going right and you don't like the reaction or you don't
whatever like you can cut me
and then you don't have to bear the um you know the brunt of signing this let's
say it's a 10 million
dollar contract and you know something's not going right and you still have to
pay the 10 million i i
don't i don't need that like i just want to i want a job i want to go play and
let me just prove that
i'm still one of the best pitchers let me prove that i have a lot to offer the
organization and then
i'll get paid an incentives i'll earn based on what i perform i'm happy with
that um i've never
like i've always wanted to be that way too like it's i've i've only wanted to
sign one year contracts
because i never want to be the guy that signs a long-term deal and then it's
like okay well i'm
getting paid regardless so performance doesn't matter and i'm just gonna like
play out my years or
whatever i'm just gonna get massages or whatever paint my nails or whatever
yeah like shout out to
the guys that paint their nails no problem with it but yeah no judgment yeah
but uh like i
i'm an intense competitor and i just want to go compete right and like i would
like to be compensated
fairly for what i produce so if i produce nothing i don't feel like i should be
compensated anything
if i'm the best pitcher in the league i feel like i should be compensated for
being the best pitcher in
the league and the easiest way to do that is just like minimum risk for the
team i'll play for the
minimum and then if i pitch really well then have incentives that reward me for
pitching really
well and the value that i give to the team is equally shared and both sides
feel like they won
um wow i'm i'm happy to have any sort of like like yeah i want to work together
with the team i want to
be a positive in the community in the clubhouse on the field like overall for
the game of baseball
um i know that i can be that i have no questions about it which is why i have
no problem taking like a
incentive-based contract because i know that i can go out there and deliver um
i know the type of
person that i am i know the type of results that i'll be able to produce and i'm
willing to bet on
myself in that way amen but at the at the end of the day like i just i just
want to compete like i
just want a chance to go compete and like do the thing that i've spent 30 years
becoming one of the
best in the world at and the thing that i love to do um bro i would if i had a
team if i had even
if we had a spot here i'd hire you right now i'd hire you to pitch what would
you what would you
call it what's your what's your team name be oh that's a great question huh put
you on the spot
what's a good team name probably maybe uh the reverb or the lisps the lisps
yeah yeah dude there's so
many teams how many teams are that you could play for so many teams yeah we got
30 30 teams out there
um bro some of them are bad dude they need you i'm not i mean some of these
teams are dang bad yeah
or they could be doing they could you could maybe help yeah i think i could i
mean i don't think
there's a team out there that i wouldn't help in some way right um but i also
you know seeing the
other side of things like there's a lot of uh you know potential uh
distractions pr concerns um i don't
think they're i don't think they would be as much as people think they would be
i think it'd be like
a couple days story and then it'd be gone personally i i could be wrong but um
you think there'd be some
publications out there that would feel like hey the best the least a way that
we could be supportive
after you know maybe leading the charge with not being as supportive with
trying to even the score
you know yeah but i don't know that's my thoughts yeah i mean it'd be nice of
course but um i'm not
gonna it's out of your control yeah if it happens it happens like mookie coming
out and saying some
stuff publicly was like uh i would never ask him to do that he just did that so
like it meant a lot to
me wow mookie's my guy i love that guy mainly like i just i just want to i want
to play man i haven't
i i miss competing i'm yeah was it tough to were there certain parts of the
season that are tougher
to watch like when it gets in a plaster it's all just kind of tough it's been
tough to watch baseball
um because like i know i'm good enough to be out there and i i want to be out
there and i haven't
i haven't had the opportunity to be out there um when i was in japan last year
i watched a lot of games
because i was like okay i'm i'm here i'm playing i'm like in it i can respect
what the other people
are doing i can learn from it i'm like figuring things out and that was nice to
have some of that
back i just haven't i don't think it's been healthy for me to like consume mlb
content the
last couple years um which is sad because like everything that i've tried to
build is like grow that
entity and to like help right build it and then um i'm still involved in doing
that i'm still but
i'm just pursuing in a slightly different way where i'm not even like i'm not
really watching games and
um i'd like to get back to a place where i can like watch and like be
interested and like appreciate
the great things that other people in the league are doing i just had to like
be a little bit
protective of my of my uh mental health on on that front but yeah because it
would just kind of it
would just break your heart probably yeah it was tough man like seeing what
other guys are doing
and not being able to be happy for them feeling that resentment of like well i
should be out there
being able to compete too um i don't like i never i i don't you should have
been there's no reason
yeah i can't even imagine i don't like being negative towards other people and
like feeling
envious of other people's accomplishments i like to look at things and be like
wow this person is
really really good and i can appreciate it because i do it in all other sports
like i watch brady play
and i'm like i'm gonna watch as much of this as possible because he's gonna be
gone at some point
and like you got to appreciate what's what this is yeah same with saving saving
at bama yeah um and
and mahomes right now i do that with and caitlin clark or what me and caleb
presley want to come to
your um game and again uh so if we if he can help us sorry i just had to say
that out loud dude love
it mr pete that's what i call it she's a i love watching her yeah um but yeah
man yeah it's i think
because if you if there was no there was no criminal wrongdoing there was
nothing wrong yeah there was
nothing wrong yeah um you can find things that if you look at yourself yes i
could adjust some of
these behaviors and stuff yeah but as a human being behaving in the world to
not have done anything
wrong yeah and to have it's really just a trial that you've been through it's
almost like a
scarlet letter you know it was like a scarlet letter yeah in a way you know
yeah you get branded
with something and then you carry it i'll carry it the rest of my life like i'll
always be known for this
in some way and hopefully over time it'll be less and all the positive things
that i do will get more
attention and be more synonymous with my brand but like this will always be
there um which is which is
tough it's tough to i can't even imagine i can't think about it too much you
know yeah yeah because it's
just such a it's such an anomaly yeah you know um but god dude that yeah we
just got to see you back
out there there's no valid reason why you shouldn't be back out there yeah i
appreciate you saying that
like i there's no valid it doesn't even make nothing i if the universe doesn't
make this happen
it doesn't even make any sense anymore yeah y