The Blue Jays and Dodgers have agreed to a trade sending righty Mitch White from Los Angeles to Toronto in exchange for minor league pitchers, tweets FanSided’s Robert Murray. The teams have since announced the trade, with White and minor league infielder Alex De Jesus headed to Toronto in exchange for minor league righty Nick Frasso and minor league lefty Moises Brito.
White, 27, has been an up-and-down member of the Dodgers’ staff for the past couple seasons, generally pitching well when with the big league club but never getting a consistent, long-term spot in the rotation or in the bullpen. He’s logged 38 games, 14 of them starts, from 2020-22 and recorded a sturdy 3.58 ERA with a 22% strikeout rate, 8.3% walk rate and a 42.8% ground-ball rate in 105 2/3 innings.
A second-round pick back in 2016, White had a hiccup in his first run at the Triple-A level in 2019 but has generally fared well both there (six earned runs in 43 2/3 innings) and in the Majors over the past two seasons. White is in his final minor league option season, so he’ll need to stick on the Jays’ roster in 2023 and beyond. He’ll presumably be a back-of-the-rotation candidate, though he could also emerge in a role held by fellow Dodger-turned-Blue-Jay Ross Stripling, serving as a long man and spot starter. (Stripling, of course, has since moved into the Toronto rotation.)
The 20-year-old De Jesus, meanwhile, ranked 18th among Dodger farmhands on Baseball America’s midseason update, drawing praise for his plus arm, above-average power and a potentially average hit tool. De Jesus has split the 2022 season between Class-A and Class-A Advanced, hitting at a combined .272/.386/.447 clip with 11 homers, 20 doubles and three triples. He’s sporting an unsightly 28.6% strikeout rate but also an encouraging 14.9% walk rate.
Frasso, a fourth-rounder in 2020, was the Jays’ No. 13 prospect on Baseball America’s summer rankings. He boasts an outstanding 0.74 ERA with a 41.6% strikeout rate and 7.3% walk rate in 36 2/3 innings split across two Class-A levels. The former Loyola Marymount right-hander has primarily faced younger competition thus far, so he’s not yet tested against more advanced hitters, but it’s an impressive stat line nevertheless. Frasso had Tommy John surgery in 2021 and has thusly had his workloads limited in his return effort, but the 6’5″ righty has reached triple digits with his heater and gives the Dodgers a power arm to dream on.
There’s little in the way of public info on Brito, a 20-year-old righty who’s just 12 games into his first professional season. He’s slightly older than his average competition in the Dominican Summer League, but his 1.86 ERA and gaudy 32-to-1 K/BB ratio through 29 innings of work stand out.
What is going on in LA!!!!
40 man roster crunch is coming after the season. Surprised more dudes like this didn’t get moved
40 crunch in 3 weeks maybe but we actually project really well next year for the 40 with a buncha dudes dropping off
Strange!
Making room for Ohtani…..Lol!
Miguel Vargas on his way to SF to join taxi squad. A spot on the 40 man is now open for him.
Dodgers are sellers apparently
A bit underwhelmed over here
Ross Stripling 2.0
I was thinking the same thing. Sturdy if unspectacular spot starter who keeps you in most games. Jays could have done worse. Dodgers never did give him long looks at the major league level, but with the offense of the Jays White could prove to be an underrated deadline find for them.
Who is Mitch White. Why am I so disappoi red as a Jaysfan.
He’s the pitcher formerly known as Mitch White.
Solid 6-7 inning #4 or #5 starter. He always kept the dodgers in games & will pitch an occasional gem
2 40’s open Now
Shaking my head. Maybe moves to preempt a BIG trade?
What’s Friedman doing? Mitch White reminded me of the type of 5th starter/long relief pitcher in the mold of Stripling or Gonsolin when they first came up. Should’ve kept him around for a few more years while he’s still cheap.
May going to be back so is walker next month .
That’s all true but pitchers get injured, Mitch White also can be optioned or moved to the pen. Maybe the young arms coming back are worth it. Being a dodger fan I just want all the pitchers and depth has value too.
Development of Gavin Stone, Kyle Hurt, and Lael Lockhart made White expendable
That’s true socalbum. I liked Mitch White as a bullpen piece and the return actually looks nice in comparison. We got Moises Brito and Nick Frassa according to MLBN. Not that bad for a depth piece.
My guess is that White was pissed about getting sent down again. This was a way for him to grow since he wasn’t going to be a top option in future. Probably would be out of options for sending him down soon with how many times he has been up and down.
Both guys you mentioned are on DL with serious injuries. May hasn’t pitched in over a year. Buehler hasn’t pitched well even he was healthy.
Buehler hasn’t been healthy yet this season. We should know that now. Whether he comes back strong we don’t know but the very fact that the Dodgers did not panic about him should be a big clue.
Lost Noah…and get this?
Dodgers trade deadline grade: F
Dodgers did not need to do anything. Everyone is trying to catch the Dodgers
Still an F.
F for fantastic.
EVERYONE trying to catch the Dodgers?
Look at what the Yankees did & their record to date.
Why other than a pitcher or two dodgers didn’t need anything . They have 68 wins!!!
69 wins
Andrew Heaney stays healthy for two four inning starts and they dump a decent number five option in Mitch White?
Kershaw
Anderson
Urias
Gonsolin
Heaney
Buehler
May
Miller
Pepiot
Stone
They’ll be okay.
Thank you. Voice of reason
I understand why they had to shave off the 40 man roster but White provided a safety net SP for rest of season in case Heaney got hurt again or Kershaw has to go the IL. No guarantees that May and Buehler come back fully healed and no guarantee that they come back to peak level performance. I’d rather have White. The concern is for this season, so Miller, Pepiot or Stone are not going to give you much help this season. There are other guys they could have moved, like Moronta, Reed, Grove, or even Bruihl.
Good points. They must be very confident that May is gonna be fine. Friedman playing the long game, as usual. One of, or both, of these lottery tickets might pan out, you never know. “In Friedman We Trust”
Fair enough. I just hope that the Dodgers can get to full strength before the playoffs. It’s going to be a war against the Padres in the playoffs. You figure that the Dodgers should be able to hold them off during the season but they’ll likely finish in the top 2 non-division slots, which means a potential second round showdown if the Dodgers have the best record in the NL. Should be at least exciting.
True, and Mitch can provided safety net for next year too. Because, pitcher got hurt, all the time. This is head scratching move big time
If they really need move someone from 40 man roster, can start from Moronta and Reed for Dustin May and Blake Treinen
Bruin – Yup, we gotta trust they really covet the 2 arms – Both fit the profile high k/great k/bb% which they love
I liked White tho, wish we woulda turned him into what Nick Martinez is doing for the Friars down south
Very underwhelming deadline for the Jays. No impact starter or bullpen piece.
So pathetic that the Jays think this bum will help the team at all lmao. What a miserable deadline, team will be lucky to sneak into the postseason with this garbage pitching staff, one of the worst in the league. Looking forward to watching this bum get DFA’d in a month.
It was an underwhelming deadline to be sure, but you are so far off on your assessment of the pitching staff. If they werent going to pony up the cost to acquire Castillo or Montas, a swingman was the only piece they needed for rotation depth. White is not a bad pitcher at all, you clearly havent watched him pitch.
You’re right I haven’t watched him pitch, but I haven’t heard of this guy once, what am I supposed to think? Saw we just got merrifield, was happy to see that. Really feel like the pitching is lacking, don’t trust stripling or Kikuchi at all and our pen only has 3 reliable guys (Romano, Garcia and Bass). Hope White can help, he deserves a fair chance at least.
Admits haven’t watched him still calls guy a bum. I’ll take what dumb fans say for 400 Alex.
You haven’t heard of him because he plays on the west coast. So he never got coverage. He’s pretty good.
How is that dumb? Imagine your team is in desperate need of pitching help and the only starter they acquire is someone you had no idea existed? Wouldn’t inspire confidence would it?
In the player or in your baseball knowledge?
Fans out here in pacific time are used to eastern fans knowing very little about what goes on here, but that doesn’t make it right.
Fair enough, I reckon I don’t watch enough west coast baseball as I should. It was a bit too much to call him a bum, he deserves a shot at least, and he can’t be worse than some of the other pitchers they’ve used this year.
I’ll take him back, can’t imagine he’s thrilled to go play in Canada
I gather he can be optioned to minors? Can’t have enough depth and he looks like a solid #5 with many many years of control.
Yeah he’s got a decent fastball but is still green. You can tell he lets big moments get to him a little bit but if he doesn’t build enough confidence to make it as a starter he should be a nice bullpen piece.
As a Dodgers fan, I agree. I believe he is getting close to the five option limit, but he can still be optioned.
Wow huge move for the future AL champions Toronto blue jays WINNING the 2022 trade deadline
Solid arm for you guys. He is not flashy, but he will keep you in games.
Omg….WTF are we doing?Gallo is Pederson w vertigo.There’s a few teams that’s leaped us.Omg Terrified got traded…come to LA!!!!
Im not getting it? White was solid?? Career ERA around 3.50 and gets traded. He could’ve been a bullpen guy… But you keep guys like Phil Bickford and Chris Martin. Wow LA
I wonder what other moves are being planned and what the return is.
Bickford has looked like his 2021 self lately. I think these guys know what they are doing.
Looks like the Dodgers might acquire a starter or something. Also, May is coming back soon, as well as Rios and other pieces, and they can prob do well w/o making moves..
Hahahahaha
I really like Mitch White, good pick up for the Jays. They went under the radar with their pickups, and didn’t give up too much by the looks of it. If you put Syndergaard and White’s number side by side, they’re pretty close. Small sample of course, but White has a sub 3.50 ERA this year as a starter, and comes with 5 more years of control.
Moises Brito (2022 International Signing) and Nick Frasso (throws 100)
Brito posted a 32-1 BB:K ratio this year. Very promising for a DSL pitcher.
Both are old for their respective leagues and Frasso is a relief prospect. I like Alex DeJesus as well. If they can curb some of his swing and miss tendencies, he has a top notch glove over at third base.
FULL TRADE: 23 year old RHP Nick Frasso (baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=fra…) who has dominated in A-ball, going to Dodgers. Meanwhile, 20 year old rookie-ball lefty reliever Moises Brito, with a stunning 32-1 BB:K ratio in 25 innings (baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=bri…), is also coming to LA. Dodgers give up White and INF Alex De Jesus, a top 30 prospect who’s made some strides over the past 2 years. (baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=dej…)
Puzzling TD for LAD- I liked the little movement but man Lamb and White were legit MLB players helping the roster today –
They had to clear 40’s, something that was ALWAYS going to be hard and unrealized by most who thought we would bringing a buncha people in via trade
But still Gallo and Martin for Lamb White Beeter and McKinstry ?? I didn’t think we had to drastically improve but get worse and lose a top 15 prospect? Strange strange strange but again the 40 problem was probably a lot more complex than any of us know
I’ll still take this TD over spending Big on Soto or Pablo but it’s hard to come out of glowing
I like the guys they got for Mitch White. And Rios is returning soon, plus the presence of Outman and Thompson made Lamb expendable even before Gallo. Lamb is a crappy defender everywhere with a sky-high K%. Martin is an intriguing project, and that’s all they really need.
The return for White looks decent but I can’t help wondering if they couldn’t have brought back a better reliever than Martin for some combo of Beeter, McKinstry, Lamb and White. Maybe the moves just weren’t out there. I agree 100% on not overpaying for Soto or Lopez.
Everyone we gave up were guys on the fringes and Nick Frasso and Brito look like promising pitchers who don’t need to be protected from the rule 5.
2 good replies; both have some good bones
I do wonder as well about a better Rp coming back – Robertson was had for beans .
When everyone was saying we gonna get a ton of players I knew we wouldn’t b/c of the 40 problem….but I was Damn scared that lead to a BIG name like Soto or Lopez –
Agree Piazza, they played along the fringes, I shouldn’t b$%#ch too much as that’s what I ultimately wanted along with taking no future monies back (mission accomplished ) .
Just shows how deep the Dodger’s system is. Mitchell White is like 8 or 9th on their 40 man roster depth chart, but will immediately be inserted into a contending team’s rotation to help stabilize it.
Also, the return is great. Dodgers did give up Alex De Jesus (#19 prospect), but got some great promising arms.
Dodgers have May, Buehler, Duffy, Kahnle, Treinen and Rios all in the 60-day. Any of them coming back requires a 40-man spot. They are anticipating a roster crunch very soon. Having said that, White has played an important role on this team this year – undervalued role, so it is a loss.
Funny how white was pissed after being sent down and came out publicly with it. Week later he is gone. Friedman must know something.
I can’t imagine what is so funny about it. A player who is happy to be sent down is a player who is probably never coming back up.
So the jays traded nick frasso for him. O like frasso think he has real potential as a high leverage RP but hes a project for sure
Frasso and Brito are definition of projects. But their arms are really good and could be worth the work (and wait) for the Dodgers. Chances are they never pan out. Mitch White is a MLB pitcher now and the Jays needed a SP (probably needed someone better than White frankly). White has played a big role on the Dodgers this year – Blue Jays taking advantage of Dodgers roster crunch.
How many reams of paper didn’t the Blue Jays send to the Dodgers for Mitch White ?
What in the Hillbilly Holy Heck is going on in the Dodger’s Front Office today?!?!!? I’ve been watchin the Boys in Blue for almost 60 years and have NEVER scratched my noggin’ more than today!
They made good moves lol