Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer's grievance hearing against Major League Baseball to begin May 23, source says

Trevor Bauer's grievance hearing against Major League Baseball will begin May 23, a source told ESPN on Friday, confirming a report from The Athletic.

Bauer was handed a 324-game suspension on April 29 for violating MLB's domestic violence policy, twice the amount of the previous longest suspension since the policy was implemented in August 2015. Bauer, who has firmly denied sexual assault allegations against him by as many as three women, is the first player to appeal a suspension under the policy.

«In the strongest possible terms, I deny committing any violation of the league's domestic violence and sexual assault policy,» Bauer wrote in a statement. «I am appealing this action and expect to prevail. As we have throughout this process, my representatives and I respect the confidentiality of the proceedings.»

Bauer, 31, was accused of sexual assault by a San Diego woman who requested a restraining order and essentially alleged that he took consensual rough sex too far over the course of two encounters last April and May. A Los Angeles judge denied the woman a permanent restraining order in August, and the L.A. County District Attorney's Office declined to file criminal charges against Bauer in February.

Hours after MLB's suspension was announced, The Washington Post published an interview with a woman from Columbus, Ohio, who accused the pitcher of choking her unconscious without her consent dozens of times during a years-long relationship that began in 2013. She became the third known woman to accuse Bauer of sexual assault and speak with league investigators about it, following another Ohio woman who sought a temporary restraining order against Bauer in June 2020, according to the Post.

MLB, which has the autonomy to