The answer to the headline above is … maybe?
In the hours leading up to the news breaking that ace starting pitcher Trevor Bauer — who won the National League Cy Young award last season with the Cincinnati Reds — was signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers, there were reports were it was down to a couple of teams: the Dodgers (which would bring him home to his native California) or the New York Mets.
And some Internet sleuths started seeing some strange stuff popping up on Bauer’s personal site — a signed Mets hat giveaway, a reference to New York, and a lot more. There was also a signed Dodgers hat … but Mets fans were buzzing about the possibility Bauer would join the franchise.
Trevor Bauer is giving away a signed Mets hat on his website. (h/t @mikemayer22) pic.twitter.com/YaEptBbekm
— Tim Healey (@timbhealey) February 5, 2021
The window on Trevor Bauer's signed Mets hat giveaway has changed from "24 days left" to "36 hours until open."
And he got nearly 800 entries in a few minutes. pic.twitter.com/iACnbvqfqm
— Tim Healey (@timbhealey) February 5, 2021
Naturally pic.twitter.com/0zxNcG7gHD
— Tim Healey (@timbhealey) February 5, 2021
Just got this email…. pic.twitter.com/2HapWYTqXb
— mike (@mikef_52) February 5, 2021
Trevor Bauer momentarily had a link up on his website for what appears to be new Mets merchandise. He deleted it. (h/t @Ghostless for pointing this out.) pic.twitter.com/AlAOJZ3iXR
— Deesha (@DeeshaThosar) February 5, 2021
Then, the site crashed … or was taken down:
There’s been a Bauer Outage… lol pic.twitter.com/VvMixiBm6L
— Joe DeMayo (@PSLToFlushing) February 5, 2021
If you want a summary of how it was for Mets fans and their players, these two tweets from reliever Trevor May and catcher Tomas Nido sum it up:
— Trevor “IamTrevorMay” May (@IamTrevorMay) February 5, 2021
— Tomas Nido (@tnido24) February 5, 2021
Well, now Bauer is a Dodger. So what did all that mean? Could he have been trolling, as he’s been known to do with tweets like this back in November?
Nah…baseball isn’t entertainment. It’s boring and personality isn’t allowed. And this Bauer guy is going to be terrible in the New York media. Big head case. Couldn’t handle it. https://t.co/KEvmhQUQtL
— Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー) (@BauerOutage) November 10, 2020
