Trevor Andrew Bauer is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Indians, and Cincinnati Reds. Bauer played college baseball for the UCLA Bruins, winning the Golden Spikes Award in 2011. In 2020, Bauer was the NL ERA leader and won the Cy Young Award.
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Trevor Andrew Bauer is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Indians, and Cincinnati Reds. Bauer played college baseball for the UCLA Bruins, winning the Golden Spikes Award in 2011. In 2020, Bauer was the NL ERA leader and won the Cy Young Award. He was the third overall selection of the 2011 Major League baseball draft by the Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks traded him to the Indians during the 2012–13 offseason. In 2013, he got his first hit as a pitcher against the Chicago Cubs. In 2014, he was traded to the Reds for Didi Gregorius, Lars Anderson, Tony Sipp, and Jason Donald Choo. In 2015, he hit his first batter as a batter against the Cubs, getting a hit as the first batter of the game. He is a member of the U.S. Baseball Collegiate National Team and was named to the Baseball America freshman All-America team in 2009. He also played in the 2010 College World Series, where the Bruins were defeated by South Carolina in the NCAA Championship Series. He went 13–2 with a 1. 25 ERA in 16 starts in his junior year.
He set a nation-leading and Pac-12 single-season record of 203 strikeouts. In 2011, Bauer was named thePac-12 Conference Pitcher of the Year and to the All-Pac- 12 First Team. In 2012, he made his major league debut against the Atlanta Braves. He made his professional debut with the Class-A Advanced Visalia Rawhide on August 20, 2011. On August 13, he struck out 17 of the 39 batters he faced, earning himself a promotion to the Double-A Mobile BayBears on August 13. He received his first win as a professional in a 13–6 victory over the Jacksonville Suns. Bauer appeared in the 2012 All-Star Futures Game. He had a 4.8 GPA, and as a result, graduated a year early from Hart High School in Santa Clarita, California. He played for the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was named the District IX Player of the year and the National Player of The Year by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and Baseball America. In 2010, he was a finalist for the Golden spikes Award, presented annually to the top amateur baseball player in the country by USA Baseball. He won the award in 2011 and 2012.
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