The Dodgers are no different. Both have been given many chances to show what they can do and both have come up lacking. Could it be May? August 31st is almost here, and with it, the trade deadline for this bizarre 2020 season. 6:03pm: The Rays have struck a deal with the Dodgers to acquire catcher Travis dArnaud, according to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times (via Twitter). Get the latest Los Angeles Dodgers news, photos, rankings, lists and more on Bleacher Report
The Dodgers are very good at developing players, so I am confident that there will turn out to be some nice prospects, but without a top draft pick anywhere in sight, this might be the best farm system we will have for a few years.
1 for the Dodgers.If the 2020 season ended today, Trevor Bauer would have a strong case for NL Cy Young honors.The 29-year-old leads the NL in WHIP (0.74) and all of baseball in opponents' batting average (.134), and he's tossed a pair of abridged seven-inning shutouts.He'll be one of the most sought after arms on the free-agent market this coming offseason, though he may not be in the market for a long-term deal, as he's expressed in the past that he may opt to go year to year with his contracts going forward.
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The Man Who Portrayed Jackie Robinson Passed Away On Jackie Robinson Day. We'll never pass along your email address to spammers, scammers, or the like.Your favorite teams, topics, and players all on your favorite mobile devices.Powered by Minute Media © 2020 All Rights Reserved.Ross Stripling discusses challenges of keeping arm ready amid coronavirusRoberts: Feels like Mookie Betts already played a season with us Rentals, especially platoon ones, do not sell high, but chances are we could get a Micheal Busch-like player. With the trade deadline just over a weekend away, the Dodgers find themselves in a precarious situation. He had recently been designated for assignment. The Unknown: IF Phil Gosselin. Cartaya is still early in his minor league career, and so is Busch, so these deals will likely makew that rating go down even further. Still, the league hopes to get the 2020 season underway, even in a truncated manner, and the Dodgers will still pursue the same goals regardless of the number of games they have to do so.The Betts trade may have been the first call to arms for the Dodgers, but it will be far from the last salvo the team will fire this season. Get more details at MLB Trade Rumors. The latest MLB trade rumors and buzz we're hearing. In the interim, In his piece, Gurnick also provides updates on a handful of other injured Dodgers. Knowing Andrew Friedman and the front office, they will kick the tires on just about everyone until they find a player and a price that makes them happy. Gonsolin? May He Rest In Peace. Neither worth an extension. Trade 1: Texas gets three quality prospects and cuts a little salary, while the pitching starved Yankees get two pitchers who can both start and relief — for cheaper than getting Lance Lynn all by themselves.
Cash considerations will go to Los Angeles in return. Top of the League in least runs allowed top in runs score whats there to fix?Nope. MLB considering bubble plan for 2020 postseason . Or perhaps someone else that can be brought in for the right price…No trade needed. Lux is making a quick return to the L.A. roster just two days It remains to be seen if this promotion will stick, or if Lux could be on something of a regular shuttle between the Dodgers’ active roster and taxi squad. Manager Should Turner require a stint on the injured list, the Dodgers could shuffle their infield by giving third-base at-bats to any of Lux is one of baseball’s top prospects, and a dominant performance in Triple-A last season led to his first MLB promotion, and a .240/.305/.400 slash line over 82 plate appearances in 2019. Lux has only played second base at the Major League level but he does a lot of minor league experience as a shortstop, so his arrival will give Los Angeles a bit of extra depth behind Lux will appear on the Los Angeles roster for the first time this season, after he was somewhat surprisingly not included on the club’s roster for its July opener. Lux did miss part of Summer Camp for unexplained reasons, and while there was speculation that Lux may have been kept in the minors for service-time reasons, manager Roberts said at the time that Lux would only be called up to the Dodgers on an everyday basis, so though the “29th man” designation could imply some fluidity with Lux’s status, it would seem like the star prospect will now be part of the team’s regular mix. Lux is in tonight’s starting lineup as a second baseman, which was also his position during his 23-game debut with Los Angeles last season.Lux hit .240/.305/.400 over 82 PA with the Dodgers last season, plus an .856 OPS over 10 postseason PA. A consensus top-five prospect in baseball coming into the 2020 campaign, Lux has dominated minor league pitching since being selected 20th overall in the 2016 draft, and now aims to be the next homegrown Dodgers prospect to find stardom in the majors.It’s likely to be a short-term stint on the IL for Buehler, and one that the first-place Dodgers can weather.