Trevor Bauer Investigation ‘Bigger Than We Thought,’ Police Spokeswoman Says

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Pasadena Police Department Lt. Carolyn
Gordon said Friday they received new leads that will extend the
investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Los Angeles
Dodgers starting pitcher Trevor Bauer.

“We were looking into some things and
we thought we were nearing the end,” Gordon, who’s in charge of
the investigation, told Josh Peter of USA Today. “We are not
close to the end. This investigation is bigger than we thought. So we
have to look a few more places. We want to try to uncover as much
stuff as we can.”

MLB announced Friday that Bauer would
be placed on seven-day administrative leave while the league
continues its own investigation into the matter. He was scheduled to
start Sunday against the Washington Nationals. Dodgers president Stan
Kasten discussed his view of the situation with reporters later Friday:

“I think that the procedures that are
in place, which have been agreed upon with the union, are the
correct, the proper, the best way to get all the facts, and to get
the right outcome. All of us have personal opinions and views. All of
us with the team, all of us on our staff, all of our fans, all of our
families, we all have personal views. But for now, I think it is best
the way it is being handled—professionally by the Commissioner’s
Office. … I trust that process to get us where it needs to go.”

Gordon, who declined to provide any
further details about the new information they received, shot down
any suggestion the situation is being handled differently because of
Bauer’s status as a high-profile person.

“So whether he’s a celebrity or not,
there are certain things we have to look into and we want to complete
our investigation,” Gordon told USA Today. “We don’t want to turn a case
over to the district attorney and not complete an investigation.”

The 27-year-old woman filed a domestic
violence restraining order against Bauer on Monday. She confirmed
they had consensual sex on two occasions, April 21 and May 16, but
alleged Bauer became aggressive and left her with “significant
head and facial trauma,” per ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Alden
Gonzalez. She said he also used her long hair to choke her until she
was unconscious.

“I agreed to have consensual sex,”
the woman said. “However, I did not agree or consent to what he
did next. I did not agree to be sexually assaulted.”

She added: “I am deeply concerned
that no arrest has been made or charges filed.”

Bauer’s representatives released a
statement Tuesday saying the sexual interactions were “wholly
consensual” and provided messages allegedly sent between the
Dodgers pitcher and the woman in which she asked him to “choke
me out.” Here is more of their statement, via ESPN:

“Mr. Bauer and [the woman] have
not corresponded in over a month and have not seen each other in over
six weeks. Her basis for filing a protection order is nonexistent,
fraudulent, and deliberately omits key facts, information, and her
own relevant communications. Any allegations that the pair’s
encounters were not 100 percent consensual are baseless, defamatory, and
will be refuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

The woman, who said she’s been diagnosed
with post-traumatic stress, explained she was “absolutely
terrified” about what would happen once the news became public
because of Bauer’s celebrity status but decided to come forward anyway, per ESPN.

“I do not want Trevor to put anyone
else through what I suffered,” she said.

Bauer would be eligible to come off
administrative leave July 9, but the Commissioner’s Office can ask
the Players Association to jointly increase his time on leave in
seven-day increments if the investigation remains ongoing.