MLB has their own set of rules. There's no law against writing homophobic slurs in your eyeblack, but MLB was still able to punish Escobar.
No, he didn't do anything illegal, arguably, but the optics of having a guy on your team who enjoys beating women while having sex with them, isn't great.
Saying the N word on the phone to your girlfriend, isn't illegal either, but the NBA still managed to ban that guy for life.
It will be interesting to see what the Dodgers do. Looks like he has roughly $65 million owed to him between 2022 and 2023. That's a lot of cash to eat for a guy you don't want to put on the roster.
Do they play him or trade him for pennies on the dollar? Then again, Bauer really faded after the resin change, so maybe he'll be crap and none of this will matter.