Trevor Bauer: Everything you need to know

The Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League signed Bauer to a contract Thursday. Bauer spent the 2025 season with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, posting a 4.51 ERA over 133.2 innings. The 35-year-old has not pitched at the major-league level since 2021, and it's highly unlikely he'll ever return to a big-league organization.

Bauer signed a one-year contract with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball on Jan. 27. Bauer will be embarking on his second stint in Japan, after he spent the 2023 season with the BayStars following his release from the Dodgers in January of that year. The Dodgers cut Bauer loose shortly after MLB reduced his suspension from 324 games to 194 games following a successful appeal, and while the ban is now considered served, the 34-year-old right-hander hasn't seemed to gain any real momentum in his efforts to return to affiliated ball. He'll instead continue his career with the BayStars after he spent the 2024 campaign in the Mexican League, where he turned in a 2.48 ERA and 120:21 K:BB in 83.1 innings for Diablos Rojos del Mexico.