Baker can accept a nine-week ban with an early guilty plea to all charges. Unless he chooses to contest the bans, the Saints' best case scenario would see him return for week one of the finals series.
Baker and Geelong star Steve Johnson were involved in a series of heated clashes during Friday night’s spiteful grand final replay.
Johnson is facing a four-week suspension relating to two striking charges - against Baker - which can be cut to three weeks with an early guilty plea.
Cat Cam Mooney was also cited from the match.
Mooney, who has also run foul of the tribunal in recent years, can have a three-week ban cut to two should he plead guilty to striking Saint Jason Blake.
However the match review panel’s heavy hit on Baker was the big news.
Three of the Saint’s charges were level three striking offences against Johnson - all from the first quarter of Friday night’s match at the MCG.
Perhaps the most intriguing charge, however, is Baker’s level two misconduct offence for making unreasonable and unnecessary contact with an injured player. That charge also relates to the first quarter, where the defender appeared to punch Johnson’s right hand after the Cat had injured a bone in his hand earlier in the night.
Johnson is up on two charges. One is a level two striking charge from the first quarter, the other a level three striking offence - a swinging elbow which left Baker with a badly cut eye - from the second term.
He has 93.75 carry-over points from within the past 12 months but can reduce his sentence by a week with an early plea.
While Baker was cited for misconduct, teammate Sam Fisher avoided a tribunal meeting for making contact with an injured Cat in the final term.
The match review panel did assess Fisher’s decision to approach Geelong’s Jimmy Bartel as he was assisted from the field in the final term after he injured an elbow.
However the panel said Fisher’s focus was on play and contact was not deemed unreasonable in the circumstances.
