But MLB front offices don’t work like courts. They work on risk management. And signing Trevor Bauer, at 35, with all of that backstory, is a risk almost no team is willing to take, even if the stuff on the mound still works. Well, that’s if it works, because that wasn’t the case last year in Japan. A 4.41 ERA is a 4.41 ERA. Ball don’t lie. So the path back to MLB is not happening, and I think that Bauer knows that. So, then, why does he keep on trying?