The Dodgers announced Monday that they’ve claimed catcher Anthony Bemboom off waivers from the Angels and right-hander Conner Greene off waivers from the Orioles. In order to open space on the 40-man roster, Los Angeles transferred left-handers Danny Duffy and Clayton Kershaw to the 60-day injured list. The “60-day” minimum on those IL stints for Duffy and Kershaw begin with their initial placement on the IL — July 20 for Duffy and July 7 for Kershaw. Duffy would be eligible to return on Sept. 18 and Kershaw on Sept. 5.
Bemboom, 31, has batted .213/.302/.347 in 88 plate appearances with the Angels over the past two seasons. He’s also logged some very brief big league time with the Rays. While Bemboom hasn’t hit much in the Majors through a small sample’s worth of career games, he’s a .256/.349/.410 hitter in parts of five Triple-A seasons. He also boasts an excellent 35 percent caught-stealing rate behind the dish and has been credited with solid framing marks at Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs and Statcast.
The Angels designated Bemboom for assignment over the weekend when claiming fellow catcher Chad Wallach off waivers from the Marlins. Bemboom will now head to the Dodgers and provide some experienced depth for a club that just traded away top catching prospect Keibert Ruiz in the Max Scherzer/Trea Turner blockbuster.
Greene, 26, made his Major League debut with the Orioles this season but was hit hard in 3 2/3 innings. The former Blue Jays, Royals and Cardinals minor leaguer surrendered six runs on seven hits and a walk with five strikeouts in his short time with the O’s and has had a similarly rough go of it in Triple-A this year (7.09 ERA in 20 2/3 frames).
That said, Greene averaged nearly 96 mph with his heater with the Orioles and posted strong swinging-strike and opponents’ chase rates. Greene was a prospect of note for several years, drawing 70 grades on his heater and 55s and 60s on his changeup (on the 20-80 scale). He’s had control problems throughout his minor league tenure (11.2 percent walk rate), but the Dodgers are ostensibly intrigued by his raw stuff and may have their own ideas about how to maximize his potential. Greene can be optioned for the rest of the season but will be out of minor league options in 2022.
The news of Kershaw moving to the 60-day IL shouldn’t be a huge surprise after manager Dave Roberts recently said he expected his left-hander to be out until September. Duffy’s move to the 60-day IL, however, is a bit more surprising. Royals general manager Dayton Moore said not long before trading Duffy to the Dodgers that he expected the southpaw to return sometime in mid-August. The Dodgers were of course able to perform their own assessment of Duffy’s medicals and were aware of the risk of a lengthier absence, but they were still probably hoping to get Duffy back on the mound sooner than this. If the remainder of his rehab from a flexor strain goes well, Duffy can still be an option for the season’s final few weeks and a bullpen candidate in the postseason.
Looks like that opens up a door for the Rockies or Diamondbacks to make a run.
Lmao
Even with 47 thumbsup(s?) this is still an underrated comment
Tomorrow, Quackenbush gets DFA for Knebel
So much for the Dodgers being rated higher than the first place, best record in MLB, San Francisco Giants.
Bemboom is a reasonable back up to the back up catcher.
Which he will be in LA.
So the Dodgers and Angels essentially traded third string catchers.
With Kershaw’s career workload and this being the sixth straight year he’s failed to make 30 starts, I wonder if the Dodgers let him walk after this year. I know he’s a franchise icon but they already have a huge payroll and a lot of other big players hitting free agency in the coming years
Regarding superstar pitchers on the mend, is there anything new to report on deGrom? Last I heard, he has elbow inflammation with no time-line for return. Is he throwing on flat ground… long toss… simulated games, etc?
DeGrom hit another setback and is completely shut down for another 8 days. He’s due to get a second MRI then to see if his forearm inflammation has subsided or not. If it has, he’ll need to build back up and probably pitch a rehab game or two, so it certainly feels like he’s out for the majority of August, and maybe longer than that if the results of the next MRI are not encouraging. Right now, it feels like the Mets won’t be playing in October. Too many games lost to the IL and too many poor performances by healthy players they were counting on to be major contributors.
should have gotten a 4th dose of the vaccine
Makes your bones strong like superman–makes you immune to any muscle pull, broken bone, or ligament issues. I hear one man even survived a knife wound due to the vaccine…
Again, thoughts and prayers
As the legend goes, the 9th dose is suppose to unlock the full potential of the brain allowing people to fly, control things with their minds, read other people’s minds, and conjure fire. Or so the legend says.
Ya but I hear it makes you sterile. And at 68 years old, that’s a major concern.
Would’ve been the preferred method over my vasectomy a few years back
i am getting 7th tomorrow so my wings are slowly coming in
LMAO!!
Says the guy that half his team is on the Covid list.
Isn’t that how Deadpool got his powers?
Basically the Dodgers and Angels traded minor league catchers. Chad Wallach for Anthony Bemboom.
I think LAD only acquired Duffy to keep him away from SF.
Imagine how terrifying SF’s IL would be with Duffy. Game over NL West.
There’s a lot of head to head SF and SD games in September. That’s why
So Dodgers now have emergency backup catchers Bemboom, Tony Wolters, and Tim Federowicz at Triple-A.
Duffy was acquired for the final 14 games? I’m not sure I understand the acquisition.
Cole Hamels might beat Duffy to LA
His contract says he has to be promoted by Sep 2 or earlier, so he will.
While I understand what Friedman did at the deadline, it’s going to be a huge risk to award playoff spots to Duffy and/or Hamels if they are only able to pitch in 3-5 regular season games at the end of September out of the bullpen. While they are both proven veterans, it’s going to be tough to get a read on where they truly are, performance wise, if they only get a few games in prior to the post season. I wouldn’t be surprised to see one of them left off the roster for NLDS then re-evaluate their players for the NLCS if they make it that far. If they end up having to play the wild card game, neither of them will be on that roster. You just can’t afford to be evaluating players in the playoffs, especially in a one a done format.
I think their intention was to get help from them soon (while Kershaw and Bauer are out), not in the playoffs. And in the case of Duffy, that aint happening.
It looks quite possible that neither one of them will ever throw a pitch for the Dodgers.
That’s way too pessimistic. They didn’t sign Hamels to a major league deal to not use him.
They didn’t trade for Duffy to not use him, and that looks likely now, and at least he’d pitched within the last two years. Hamels was always the longer shot to contribute given his long layoff. So not pessimistic, just realistic.
Duffy was injured and September was always his time table. Nothing changed by putting him on the 60 day IL
Not right, and contradicted by what it says right here in this article. When the Dodgers completed the trade he was expected to be back by mid-August. Now at best he won’t be available until the last ten days of the season. Placing him on the 60-day is big change.
Depth versus necessity,man.
Nope, your wrong. From the get go, it had always been reported that Duffy would be unavailable until September…which I thought at the time was a stupid trade…and still do!
No, it wasn’t. First reported that he would possibly be back mid-to-late August, then September. This is the first we’ve heard of it being late September at the earliest. I’d go even money that he never suits up as a Dodger.
I wouldn’t worry about Andrew Friedman. He knows quite a bit more about this stuff than you do.
So even if neither of Duffy or Hamels make a contribution to the Dodgers they were still good moves?
For 1M and a likely instructional league PTBNL is absolutely worth it when your payroll is already 260M. Hamel’s salary is 00.384% of a 260M payroll. Duffy was very good before he got hurt as well
I think that’s a pretty small gamble
That’s not good. Dodgers could really use those guys and not the earlier they will have them middle to late September. Seems like that doesn’t give them a lot of time to shake the rust off and build up arm strength for the playoffs.
I thought you had to be on the active roster by Sept. 1st to be eligible to play in the postseason. Is that being waived because of COVID?
The rule is the 40 man roster or the 60 day IL and has always been. They are still eligible for the postseason.
It’s in organization(specifically the 40 man) not just active
Weren’t the Dodgas bankrupt recently and couldn’t pay their players?
No that was your sh&t team. That’s why the Cubs gutted their roster because they can afford any of their players.
Yea. McCourt couldn’t make a June payroll. That’s why he was forced to sell the team and Guggenheim took over.
Blame Jaimie McCourt, baseball
You are an imaginary character lying thru your false teeth. Dodgers currently have a bigger national following than the Red Sox or Cubs. Dodger fans often number 1/3 to 1/2 of the crowd in road games. The games in Frisco are predominantly blue, not Frisco’s Halloween colors, and routinely drown out Giant cheers. Dodger fans have been showing up big at Wrigley. Watch LA @ NY this coming weekend, you’ll hear and see a ton of pro-LA noise and Dodger blue in the park. You otoh are either braindead or lying. I travel the world, and ONLY Yankee caps outnumber Dodger caps in Europe and South America, you lying Trumper.
So we (Angels) traded Benboom for Wallach.
Benboom’s baseball reference page lists him as a catcher/pitcher. Surprised the angels didn’t keep him to pair with Ohtani. A battery where both guys are two way players!
Maybe the Dodgers will give Bemboom the same bat they gave Pujols. Still bothers me that AP was stealing money from the Angels, couldn’t hit his weight in a lineup with Trout ,Rendon & Ohtani…. but suddenly can hit .260 with the Dodgers? If he would have done that with the Angels, he’d still be there.