Fans Weigh in on Trevor Bauer's Minor League Exhibition Game Against Dodgers

Long before he signed a three-year, $102 million contract with the Dodgers, or was suspended by Major League Baseball, Trevor Bauer was a polarizing baseball player. 

Whether it was his unique training regimen on the field, or his well-chronicled off-the-field exploits, the pitcher has been a magnet for controversy. As early as Feb. 2013, less than a year after his major league debut with Cleveland, beat writers were remarking that Bauer "couldn't stay out of the news."

Eleven years later, little has changed.

On Thursday, it was announced that Bauer had joined a tryout team consisting of mostly Japanese expats that was previously scheduled to play a team of Dodgers minor leaguers in a back-field game Sunday in Arizona. 

The condensed version of the story — "Bauer to pitch against former team" — was nominally correct, even if Bauer doesn't face any of his former teammates. He's unlikely to face a player of the caliber he's hoping to face in an MLB game this season.

Still, the news was enough to elicit a variety of opinions among fans. Predictably, those opinions were mixed. Here is a sampling of reactions: