I get the idea to separate the player from his off field transgressions, if the transgressions have been proven wrong or greatly reduced.
But in this day or social media and public relations being so sensitive, Bauer and others like him, each of varying degrees of issues, the court of social media has already been judge, jury and executioner on Bauer, for better or worse.
Any team who is ready to go against that social media court has to be ready for the response from social media, the reporters who will ask every player in the locker room about a guy like Bauer. People who aren't baseball fans admonishing the Jays and then the Jays sponsors. It ends up just not being worth the off field distractions.
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