Trevor Bauer Wanted The Indians Staff To Burn His Wound Shut, And When They Refused, He Wanted To Do It Himself
Back in February, I thought that Trevor Bauer was a psychopath for wishing a “short and miserable life” to the person who called the cops on him for flying his drone, but I think this latest Bauer saga confirms my psychopath theory.
By now, you’re more than likely aware that Bauer sliced his finger down to the bone while repairing one of his drones last week. He was originally slated to take the ball in Game 2 of the ALCS in Cleveland, but was pushed back a couple days to take the ball in Game 3 in Toronto. I didn’t think that would make much of a difference, and it really didn’t. Maybe he would’ve lasted two batters instead of four, but either way, he wasn’t able to compete.
MLB rules would not allow Bauer to wear a bandage, bandaid or apply a glue-like substance on the wound while he was on the mound. After his stitches opened up in the first inning, and he was dripping blood all over his jersey, pants, cleats, and the rubber, the home plate umpire told Indians manager Terry Francona that he had to replace Bauer. Bauer wanted to compete, though, and he would’ve gone to great lengths in order to accomplish that.
In the days leading up to Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, when Trevor Bauer sat in the Cleveland Indians’ trainer’s room getting treatment on his mangled right pinky, he kept asking the medical staff to use a soldering iron and burn shut the wound he suffered at a hotel when a drone he was repairing went haywire and sliced his finger from the nail to second knuckle. They laughed, even though they understood Bauer was dead serious and regretted not cauterizing it himself the night of the injury.
“I even had a soldering iron in my hotel room,” Bauer said. “Instead of going to the ER, I probably should’ve sealed it closed myself.”
I can’t tell if Bauer is a complete psychopath, the baddest dude on the planet, or a combination of both. I think it’s gotta be a combination of both, but it’s not evenly distributed. Definitely way more psychopath in there than badass, especially if he seriously contemplated cauterizing himself, and also the fact that the trainers knew that he wasn’t kidding about wanting to do that to himself. With the Indians just one win away from the World Series and the chance to sweep the series tonight, you’ve gotta figure the odds are pretty high of him actually cauterizing himself so that he can pitch in the World Series, no?