Less likely to be punishment for Bauer's being an unlikeable jerk, and more likely punishment for an accumulation of psychopathic attacks:
Not really much different. In order to be an "unlikeable jerk" by MLB standards, you pretty much have to be a half-crazed psychopath.
This is pretty much like how Martin Shkreli managed to be enough of a dickhead in the pharma business that even a New York jury convicted him of being a big enough jerk to be worth sending to federal prison.
