Trevor Bauer makes sales pitch for return to MLB: 'I'm one of the best pitchers in the world'

Former MLB star joins "America's Newsroom" to share his story for the first time after being accused of sexual assault two years ago.

Trevor Bauer has been on quite the roller coaster over the last three-plus years.

He parlayed a Cy Young Award in 2020 into a $102 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers prior to the following season.

Then, he was hit with graphic sexual assault allegations in which a woman said the pitcher knocked her unconscious during a sexual encounter without her consent.

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Trevor Bauer of the Los Angeles Dodgers reacts after a strikeout against the Padres in San Diego on June 23, 2021. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)

Bauer has been hit with other allegations but has cleared his name in just about all of them. However, he was still hammered with a 324-game suspension for violating MLB's Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy.

His suspension was reduced to 194 (representing the time he missed in 2021 while on administrative leave and the entirety of the 2022 season), but he was still released by the Dodgers before the 2023 season began. As a result, he played professionally in Japan last year.

Now, the majority of Bauer's legal issues are over and he's ready to go back to Major League Baseball. He has not pitched in the majors since June 28, 2021.

Bauer told Fox News Digital in a sit-down that he never did anything "criminally" but still had to look in the mirror and work on himself after the allegations.

And that is something he says all 30 MLB teams should look at and consider in their dialogue with the 32-year-old during free agency.

"Anyone that’s willing to sit down with me and listen: I’d like to play the second half