MLB extends Trevor Bauer's absence from Dodgers after lockout

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As the MLB lockout was lifted Thursday and players beginning to report to spring training this weekend, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer won’t be among them.

Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agreed to extend Bauer’s administrative leave for another seven days — from March 13 to March 19 — preventing the right-handed pitcher from reporting to the Dodgers’ spring training facility, ESPN reports.

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Administrative leave, in this case, is a non-disciplinary measure that guarantees a player his salary and service time while investigations continue for an additional 10 days. OutKick previously reported the league first put Bauer on paid leave on July 2 under the joint domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse policy. It was announced he would be out for the remainder of the season in September 2021.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer reacts against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field.  (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports)

Bauer spent the final months of the 2021 regular season on administrative leave — while contesting sexual assault allegations that surfaced in June 2021 that he and his lawyers denied — and still faces potential discipline from MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, who can suspend players under the domestic violence policy.

Last month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the 31-year-old pitcher will not face any criminal charges in the county’s court system.

Bauer posted a video to YouTube titled "The Truth," shortly after the ruling by the DA’s office was made.

"I am not this person this woman, her lawyers, and certain