Friday, January 5, 2018

Hot Stove Update: Dodgers Bolster Pen; Giants Sign 3 To Minors Deals

There was finally a significant trade in the Hot Stove League yesterday, but not involving any speculated names.  The Dodgers upgraded the left side of their bullpen by acquiring LHP Scott Alexander from the KC Royals in a 3-way trade involving the White Sox.  Alexander had 69 IP for the Royals last year with a 2.48 ERA, solid K and BB rates and an extreme groundball rate.  He'll be a lefty specialist who can go for more than 1 or 2 batters at a time for the Dodgers.  The Dodgers also get minor league IF Jake Peter from the ChiSox.

The Royals come away with a solid RHP SP prospect in Trevor Oaks and IF Erick Mejia.  Oaks is 25 yo, 6'3", 200 lbs. who posted a 3.24 ERA in 84 IP and solid K and BB rates for AA Tulsa last year.  The ChiSox end up with 2 bullpen vets, RHP Joakim Soria and LHP Luis Avilan plus $3 M, $1 from KC and $2 M from the Dodgers.

Comment:  Interesting that the Dodgers seem to always be in the middle of 3-way trades while I can't remember the last 3-way the Giants were involved in.

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Meanwhile, the Giants bolstered their depth by signing 3 players to minor league deals including former Giants C Hector Sanchez.  This may be a big win for the Giants for no other reason than it prevents Hector from batting against them in 2018.  Other signings include IF Chase D'Arnaud who has kicked around awhile and never found traction to a MLB career and RHP Jose Valdez who is not the Jose Valdez who pitched in the Giants organization a few years ago.  Valdez throws hard, but has never translated that into MLB success.

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