Cleveland Guardians’ Tom Hamilton slams Trevor Bauer amid new controversy

Cleveland Guardians’ announcer Tom Hamilton can still dunk on Trevor Bauer from half a world away.

The Cleveland Guardians have had a predictably slow start to the season, with bats going cold across the board for the bulk end of April. Injuries to the pitching staff have not helped things, and then of course there’s whatever is going on with James Karinchack. Yet, there’s still one thing the Guardians can do with ease; dunk on world-renowned jerk, Trevor Bauer.

Bauer, who is currently playing in Japan after no one in the Major Leagues wanted to put up with his nonsense, made headlines recently by co-opting a “Japanese sword celebration” after striking out a hitter. In essence, Bauer was impersonating a samurai, and the way they re-sheath their swords.

Now, if it ended there, no big deal, right? After all, Bauer has done far worse things, allegedly. We know about his alleged treatment of women, his actual treatment of strangers on the internet, and how he constantly aggravates teams to the point of cutting bait on the guy.

Now, he’s been called out by not only his fellow teammates in Japan but by Guardians legend Tom Hamilton.

Trevor Bauer is already making enemies and alienating people

Bauer plays for the DeNA Baystars and after just one start, he’s already angered one of the better players on the team; Yasuaki Yamasaki. Yasuaki is the team’s closer, and he’s none too happy with the way Bauer is going about things. His teammate called him out on social media, telling him to not be an idiot.

Maybe too late on that one.

For what it’s worth, Yasuaki and Bauerhave “made amends”, though I think that’s mostly just publicity, that’s just an opinion. Yet, Bauer still made his teammate mad to some degree, whether that beef is now squash is irrelevant. It happened.

And that’s where Tom Hamilton comes in. On Tuesday, May 2, the Guardians’ long-time play-by-play legend took issue with Bauer’s nonsense, blasting the pitcher for once again making his teammate’s life harder than it needs to be, saying (via AwfulAnnouncing)

"Now Bauer’s making enemies in Japan. Bauer wants to celebrate a strikeout by pretending he’s shoving a sword into a sheath. And his Japanese teammate said on Twitter, ‘that’s disrespectful.…Absolutely shocking that Trevor Bauer would go to another country and make enemies with teammates. Nobody could have seen that coming. What an idiot."

It’s not surprising to hear Hamilton blast Bauer for his behavior and antics. If anyone outside of the people he’s had direct issues with would know about Bauer’s behavior, it’s Hamilton. It’s clear that despite his long absence from Cleveland that there are people who still have issues with Bauer, and why shouldn’t they?

Whether he’s innocent or guilty isn’t really up for debate, how he treats people is. You can defend his allegations against him all you want, but when people are outright questioning whether or not you’re a bully due to how you treat people, that kind of shows someone just how you treat others. Bauer has a history of mistreating others to some degree, and there are plenty of examples to back that up.

So it’s no wonder that Hamilton has issues with him.