Compared to some of their fellow World Series contenders, the Los Angeles Dodgers didn’t make the flashiest moves at this year’s trade deadline.
The Dodgers’ division rivals, the San Diego Padres, were wheeling and dealing. So, too, were the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets. Comparatively, the Dodgers’ modest moves for names like Brock Stewart and Alex Call didn’t generate a ton of fanfare.
However, one Dodgers move flew under the radar to many in the moment, but caught the eye of a Major League Baseball insider.
On Thursday, the Dodgers were involved in a trade where they shipped away just one player, catcher Hunter Feduccia, and acquired three more, two from the Tampa Bay Rays and one from the Cincinnati Reds.
Jim Bowden of The Athletic was a big fan of the trade, and lauded decision-maker Andrew Friedman for pulling the trigger on Monday.
“Most creative executive: Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman, who once again won a three-way trade, this time with the Rays and Reds, that netted Los Angeles lefty Adam Serwinowski, righty Paul Gervase and catcher Ben Rortvedt,” wrote Bowden.
Gervase and Rortvedt were the two players that arrived in the deal from Tampa Bay, while Serwinowski came from the Reds. There were only three others involved: Feduccia, who went to the Rays alongside ex-Reds right-handed pitcher Brian Van Belle, and right-handed pitcher Zack Littell, who went from Tampa Bay to Cincinnati.
Got all that? It’s certainly not a trade the Dodgers made with the goal of drastically improving their World Series odds in the here and now, but it gave them two new pitchers that could amount to something eventually in exchange for slightly downgrading their third-string catcher spot.
Only history will determine whether the Dodgers “won the trade,” but it certainly makes sense from a logical perspective.
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