Too many questions with Bauer. If you can get past all the other "stuff", his resume is still wildly inconsistent. Do you get the 4.50 ERA guy, the 6.4 ERA guy with the Reds in 2019, or the Cy Young pitcher of 2020?
If there weren't clubhouse concerns, a history of poor sportsmanship, and questions about how legitimate his successful seasons were (sticky stuff), then maybe you could take a chance on him. But with all of that, and the up and down performance and the fact that he's a PR nightmare, well... the Twins aren't THAT desperate, are they?
And, of course, he hasn't pitched professional ball for almost 2 seasons now.