Let s Make a Deal
Because I have no clue as to what the Dodgers will do or what type of players the Pirates actually want for Vasquez, etc., I don’t typically spend much, if any, time speculating as to what type of trade the Dodgers are going to make or what players will be involved. I know for many it’s a lot of fun, and I don’t cluck my tongue at those that do.
Because I have no clue as to what the Dodgers will do or what type of players the Pirates actually want for Vasquez, etc., I don’t typically spend much, if any, time speculating as to what type of trade the Dodgers are going to make or what players will be involved. I know for many it’s a lot of fun, and I don’t cluck my tongue at those that do. There was much talk on this blog last year about what type of player package it would take to acquire Machado. Did anyone of you correctly predict the 5 players involved? If you did, the next time you’re in my neck of the woods, I’ll buy you a steak dinner at the Texas Roadhouse. Heck, if you guessed 3 of the 5 players, I would consider buying you that dinner.
For kicks and giggles, I thought it might be fun to go back over the past few years and look at the trades and player transactions made by the Dodgers in June, July and August as trade deadline deals. For the most part, you’ll find they are incredibly underwhelming. I start with Ned Colletti’s last year and follow with each year FAZ was in charge. I included FAZ’s very first trade. Without looking, I wonder how many remember who they acquired.
2014 (Colletti’s last deadline at the helm)
July 28, 2014: Released Erick Threets. (Raise your hand if you remember the Erik Threets era) and traded a player to be named later to the Cubs for Darwin Barney and cash. The Dodgers sent Jonathan Martinez (minors) to the Cubs to complete the trade.
August 7, 2014: Signed Bruce Billings as a free agent and traded players to be named later to the Phillies for Roberto Hernandez. The Dodgers later sent Victor Arano and Jesmuel Valentin to the Phillies to complete the trade. (For no particular reason, I absolutely hated this trade at the time it was made and hated it more after I got to watch Hernandez pitch regularly)
August 9, 2014: Traded player to be named or cash to the Twins for Kevin Correia.
August 11, 2014: Released Tyson Brummett.
August 13, 2014: Released Chone Figgins and Colt Hynes were selected by the Blue Jays off waivers.
August 15, 2014: Signed Anthony Slama as a free agent. (Who?) They also traded future considerations to the Rangers for Justin Germano. (This must have been “National let’s acquire players no one will remember day.”)
Friedman’s first trade (Not a Trade deadline trade):
Traded a player to be named later
to the Marlins for Kyle Jensen. The Dodgers sent Craig Stem (minors) (December
15, 2014) to the Marlins to complete the trade.
(How many of you remember this trade?
It very much seems similar to the White for Scrubb transaction, in that
it may have some underlying reasons to be made, but in the end, does it really
matter?)
May 27, 2015: Traded Juan Uribe and Chris Withrow to the Braves for Alberto Callaspo, Juan Jaime, Eric Stults, and Ian Thomas. (Oh Juan! How you went from being one of the worst players ever to don a Dodger uniform to one who magically captured our hearts)
July 2, 2015: Traded two international bonus slots to the Blue Jays for Chase De Jong and Tim Locastro. (Let’s hope those bonus slots weren’t used to sign Guerrero, Jr.)
July 15, 2015: Released Jeremy Horst. The Dodgers then redeemed the day by trading Chris Reed to the Marlins for Grant Dayton.
July 30, 2015: As part of a 3‑team trade, traded Zachary Bird (minors), Hector Olivera and Paco Rodriguez to the Braves and Victor Araujo (minors), Kevin Guzman (minors) and Jeff Brigham to the Marlins. Dodgers received Bronson Arroyo, Luis Avilan, Jim Johnson, Jose Peraza and Alex Wood from the Braves and Mat Latos and Mike Morse from the Marlins. The Marlins also sent a 2016 competitive balance round A pick to the Braves, who used the pick to select Joey Wentz, who is currently their 9th ranked prospect.
July 31, 2015: Traded Mike Morse and cash to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Jose Tabata.
August 19, 2015: Traded John Richy (minors) and Darnell Sweeney to the Phillies for Chase Utley and cash. (No matter how you slice it, the Dodgers won this trade!)
August 31, 2015: Traded player to be named or cash to the Blue Jays for Chris Heisey. Also, traded player to be named or cash to the Mariners for Justin Ruggiano and cash.
June 19, 2016: Traded Zach Lee to the Seattle Mariners for Chris Taylor. (Yay!!)
June 22, 2016: Released Antoan Richardson. Also selected Layne Somsen off waivers from the New York Yankees.
June 30, 2016: Traded Caleb Dirks (minors) and Phil Pfeifer (minors) to the Braves for a player to be named later, Dian Toscano (minors), Bud Norris and cash. The Braves later sent Alec Grosser (minors)(who?) to the Dodgers to complete the trade.
August 1, 2016: Traded Mike Bolsinger to the Blue Jays for Jesse Chavez. Also traded Yordan Alvarez to the Astros for Josh Fields. (At the time of this deal, who on this board was upset that we traded away Alvarez???) Last trade of the day was Grant Holmes (minors), Jharel Cotton and Frankie Montas to the Oakland Athletics for Rich Hill and Josh Reddick.
August
23, 2016: Signed Dan Johnson as a free agent.
August 25, 2016: Traded a player to be named later, Tommy Bergjans (minors) and A.J. Ellis to the Phillies for Carlos Ruiz and cash. The Dodgers sent Joey Curletta (minors) to the Phillies to complete the trade. (I could never understand this trade, but later I read some speculation that A.J. was not buying into the new culture and wasn’t a positive clubhouse presence).
June 3, 2017: Purchased Jason Wheeler from the Twins.
June 7, 2017: Chris Heston selected by the Twins off waivers.
June 15, 2017: Released Patrick Schuster.
June 18, 2017: Signed Chris Rearick as a free agent. Dodgers also selected Peter O’Brien off waivers from the Rangers.
June 30, 2017: Signed Eddie Gamboa as a free agent.
July 2, 2017: Traded Jason Wheeler to the Orioles for international bonus slot.
July 10, 2017: Purchased Todd Cunningham from the Cardinals.
July 19, 2017: Signed Tommy Layne as a free agent.
July 22, 2017: Traded Sergio Romo to the Rays for a player to be named or cash.
July 28, 2017: Purchased Luke Farrell from the Royals.
July 31, 2017: Traded Hendrik Clementina (minors) and Scott Van Slyke to the Reds for Tony Cingrani. The also traded A.J. Alexy (minors), Brendon Davis (minors) and Willie Calhoun to the Texas Rangers for Yu Darvish and they traded Oneil Cruz (minors) and Angel German (minors) to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Tony Watson. (This may be the type of transactions we see this week).
August 1, 2017: Released Tommy Layne.
August 4, 2017: Selected Dylan Floro off waivers from the Cubs.
August 5, 2017: Mike Freeman granted Free Agency.
August 9, 2017: Luke Farrell selected by the Reds off waivers.
August 10, 2017: Released Chris Rearick.
August 15, 2017: Traded Chris Hatcher to the As for international bonus slot money.
August 19, 2017: Traded a player to be named later to the Mets for Curtis Granderson and cash. The Dodgers later sent Jacob Rhame to the Mets to complete the trade.
August
20, 2017: Selected Jordan Jankowski off waivers from the Astros.
June 1, 2018: Sold Peter O’Brien to the Marlins.
June 2, 2018: Released C.C. Lee and selected P.J. Conlon off waivers from the Mets.
June 6, 2018: P.J. Conlon selected by the Mets off waivers.
June 14, 2018: Signed Madison Younginer as a free agent.
June 16, 2018: Signed Drew Hutchison as a free agent and they released Chad Girodo.
June 22, 2018: Signed Kyle Lobstein as a free agent.
June 23, 2018: Released Tyler Colvin.
June 29, 2018: Released Guillermo Moscoso.
July 4, 2018: Traded James Marinan (minors) and Aneurys Zabala (minors) to the Reds for Dylan Floro, Zach Neal and international bonus slot money.
July 11, 2018: Selected Zac Rosscup off waivers from the Rockies.
July 15, 2018: Released Logan Ondrusek.
July 18, 2018: Traded Rylan Bannon (minors), Yusniel Diaz (minors), Dean Kremer (minors), Zach Pop (minors) and Breyvic Valera to the Orioles for Manny Machado.
July 24, 2018: Released Erisbel Arruebarrena.
July 26, 2018: Released Madison Younginer.
July 31, 2018: Traded Corey Copping (minors) to the Blue Jays for John Axford. They also traded Luke Raley (minors), Logan Forsythe and Devin Smeltzer to the Twins for Brian Dozier.
August 1, 2018: Released Drew Hutchison.
August 7, 2018: Ariel Hernandez selected by the Brewers off waivers.
August 27, 2018: Signed Zach McAllister as a free agent.
August 31, 2018: Traded Jesus Valdez (minors) to the Pirates
for David Freese. They also traded
Andrew Istler (minors) to the Nationals for Ryan Madson.
There you have it. While I hope we come away with one or two top of the line shut-down relievers, or something else exciting happens within the next couple of days, the chances are that on August 1, 2019, we’ll be scratching our heads and asking ourselves “who is that?” Of course, that will lead to all kinds of interesting discussion among our “family,” so there is that!
2Demeter2’s Minor League Lowdown
OKC Dodgers beat the Memphis Redbirds: 8- 2
Dustin May started for the Dodgers and showed once again why he shouldn’t be traded, except for maybe Gerrit Cole or Steven Strasburg. He pitched 5 very strong innings, allowing but 2 hits, and 1 walk. He tired some in the 6th inning, after getting the first two outs, he walked a batter and then gave up a run-scoring double. He recovered to strike out the next batter looking. His final line was 6 inn. 3 hits, 2 walks, and 7ks. Zac Rosscup took over for May and pitched a clean inning with 3 strikeouts. Victor Gonzalez also pitched a nice inning, 1 hit, 1 walk, and 1K. Shea Spitzbarth pitched one inning allowing a run.
OKC scored 3 runs in the 3rd inning on a Conner Joe 2 run homer, bringing in Lux who had doubled and on an Edwin Rios solo shot. Rios would later double, but got thrown out at home on a Kiebert Ruiz single. D.J Peters added a HR going 2-3 with 3RBI. Joe Kemmer also hit a HR with 2 RBI. No one else got more than 1 hit.
Tulsa Drillers lost to the Midland Rockhounds: 4-1
Justin De Fratus started and tossed 6 innings, allowing 3 runs on 4 hits, and 3 walks. He added 5 Ks. Yordy Cabrera pitched the final 2 innings allowing 1 run on 2 hits and 1 walk. He had 1 K.
The Drillers did pound out 9 hits, all singles, but they couldn’t turn them into runs. Zack McKinstry had 3 of the hits, and Rocky Gale added 2. Errol Robinson, on a sac fly, got the only RBI. All in all the Drillers left 18 runners on base.
RC Quakes beat the Stockton Ports: 5-2
John Rooney started for the Quakes and threw an efficient 6 innings, allowing 9 hits, 2 runs, 1 walk and adding 8 strikeouts. He was followed on the hill by Conner Strain, Guillermo Zuniga, and Melvin Jimenez, who each tossed a scoreless inning.
Offensively, the Quakes were led by Deacon Liput who went 2-4 which included a 3 run HR and 4 RBI. Donovan Casey and Hunter Feduccia chipped in with 2 hits apiece. One of Casey’s hits was a triple and he added the remaining RBI.
Great Lake Loons beat the West Michigan Whitecaps: 12-2
Jack Little started for the Loons. He pitched a total of 2.2 innings, allowing a HR in the 1st inning and in the 2nd inning. Those were the only 2 hits he allowed. He also walked 1 and struck out 3. Jose Chacin followed him and pitched a very nice 5.1 innings allowing but 4 hits, 1 run and striking out 8. Chacin was replaced by Joel Inoa who tossed a clean inning.
Offensively, the Loons started off with 3 runs in the first 2 innings. Chris Roller was one of the offensive stars going 2-6 with a 3 run HR. Second Baseman Leonel Valera added 2 hits and 3 runs. Catcher Gersel Pitre added 2 hits with 3 runs scored, Romer Cuadrado had 2 doubles as his 2 hits and Kody Hoese chipped in with 2 hits and run. The Loons broke it open in the 7th with 4 runs on a Jacob Amaya single and Cuadrado double. No one else got more than 1 hit, and the Loons were also the beneficiaries of 10 walks.
Ogden Raptors had the night off:
Off to an amazing 33-7 start to their season(the Tigers have only won 30 games in their first 100, and the Orioles 35 out of 104!!!, the Raptors took a day off to relish their remarkable start to the season.
AZL Mota Lost to the AZL Cubs 2: 4-1
Not much offensive as Albert Suarez 2 of the Mota’s 4 hits. t that was pretty much it for the offense. Hyun Il Choi started and pitched 5.2 innings, allowing 2 runs on 3 hits and 1 BB and 3K. 2019 draftee Jacob Cantleberry had his first rough outing tossing 1.1 innings, allowing 3 hits, 2 runs but striking out 3. Carlos Alejo finished the night throwing a clean inning.
AZL Lasorda beat the AZL Brewers Blue: 4-3
Edwin Mateo, Daniel Castro and Jorbit Vivas each had 2 hits. Louis Head made a rehab start and only pitched 0.2 innings, allowing 1 BB and recording 1K. Alec Gamboa followed with 2.1 innings allowing a single hit, with 5Ks. He was followed by Jacob Gilliland who had a rough outing, He tossed 3.2 innings, allowing 2 runs on 2 hits 1BB, 2HBP, and 2Ks. Ricardo Hernandez and Renaldo DePaula pitched uneventful 1.1 innings and 1 inning, respectively. DePaula got the victory, as the Lasorda’s won on a walk-off throwing error that allowed Chet Allison to score.
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Disagree, not disagreeable
Joc’s OPS in LF-.909
Joc’s OPS @ 1B-.660
Damn, as much as I hate to say it and this is going against all that I stand for as far as hanging on to the young guys, but most of us following the Dodgers the last 3 to 4 years know that if we are going to get the ring, this is the year. For the last 2 months everybody from Mark to AC, DC, Hawkeye, 59 , Singin the Blue , Bluto and Bums, have been weighing in about not giving up our top 5 prospects. With that said, we may have to give up a Gavin Lux or a Dustin May to get that lock down bullpen guy that can finally give us the parade. They always say a prospect is a suspect when he gets into the show, and I really feel in my gut that we need to push the chips into the table and pay up to get up. Yeah, I know that an elite lockdown reliever doesn’t guarantee us squat, but at least it gives us a chance. Can’t believe I am saying this, but damn the torpedoes, if we can get a Vasquez or Diaz, do it.
It’s Coors and all but Josh Sborz is apparently not the answer, like Schultz the night before. I think Lux is traded for something that can help right now and controllable or is called up so he can help the team right now. AF is trying to package lessor but everyone wants Lux.
Haha, it’s Coors field guys. The sky is not falling. Now that the deadline is less than 48 hours away, all the pretend GM’s are folding like lawn chairs ready to give up Lux on a freaking reliever. Unbelievable.
I cannot imagine AF folding, and trading Lux, who is a key piece in his long term plan for the Dodgers. If anything, AF has established a reputation for holding his ground.
Nice read about Keibert Ruiz