The Dodgers have selected the contracts of three players: right-handers Nick Frasso and Landon Knack and catcher Hunter Feduccia. The trio would have otherwise been eligible for the Rule 5 draft. The 40-man count is up to 38.
Frasso was a fourth round selection of the Blue Jays in 2020. The Dodgers acquired him at the ’22 deadline in the deal sending Mitch White to Toronto. A Loyola Marymount product, Frasso has mid-upper 90s velocity and is an excellent athlete. Baseball America recently ranked him as the #5 prospect in the L.A. system. He spent the bulk of 2023 at Double-A Tulsa, working to a 3.91 ERA in 73 2/3 innings. The 6’5″ hurler struck out almost 30% of opponents against a solid 7.6% walk rate in that breakout showing.
Knack, 26, was a second round pick in the same draft. A senior sign out of East Tennessee State, he’s a potential back-end starter. Knack split the ’23 campaign between Tulsa and Triple-A Oklahoma City, posting a sub-3.00 ERA at both stops. He allowed 2.51 earned runs per nine in 100 1/3 frames overall, striking out 24% of batters faced with a 7.3% walk percentage.
Feduccia, also 26, is a left-handed hitter out of LSU. A 12th-round pick in 2018, he has spent six seasons in the minors. He logged all of 2023 in OKC, running a .279/.387/.451 batting line over 380 trips to the plate. Feduccia walked at a huge 15.3% clip, struck out around 21% of the time and connected on 11 home runs.
Ari Alexander of KPRC 2 first reported the selections of Frasso and Feduccia this afternoon.
Dodgers have a Knack of adding good players like Knack.
It’s their fiduciary duty to add Feduccia
Excellent turns of Frasso
Dodgers pitching development factor keeps rolling along
And yet, not much to show for it.
@Neon crap, only perennially punching your pathetic team in the chest.
Who do you think my team is? LOL, couldn’t be more wrong
There’s maybe 3-4 teams we haven’t owned. Odds are your teams one of unlucky 26.
Sheesh everyone knows Neon Cop isn’t a Dodger fan!
Neon cop is a giants fan
Look at his comment history, he sticks up for them more than any other franchise and is obsessed with the dodgers. Sounds like every giants fan in world
Trump voice: WRONG
Bigly wrong?
I don’t know what team you root for but I’d bet that a decade or so straight of winning divisions might seem like something to show for it if your team could pull it off. Sure makes for a fun six months, watching your team kick ass, in spite of the final disappointments.
Boo hoo…
Miller and ??? A bunch of good upper level prospects about to not be prospects if they aren’t in the majors this year. Whether they bring back someone in a trade or Feduccia needs to be Smiths backup.
May and Gonsolin still aspiring prospects!
Just hurry up and sign Ohtani so the offseason can begin.
You didn’t hear? Arte isn’t letting Shohei go anywhere…#Halo4Life
It’s not Arte’s choice.
Good choices. But guessing goodbyes to: Ward, Gamboa, and Duran, and probably Rooney, but probably not Ramos.
Apparently only Jose Ramos and Yeiner Fernandez are still exposed to the draft.
“Frasso was a fourth round selection of the Blue Jays in 2020. The Dodgers acquired him at the ’22 deadline in the deal sending Mitch White to Toronto.”
For what it’s worth, BTV has
White $0.6
Frasso $5.2
Knack $10.1
Feduccia – no,projection
Makes sense. Frasso and Knack were no-brainers. I was a little iffy about whether they’d add Feduccia or not because of their loyalty to Barnes but looks like this could signal the end of that.
It should because if there’s one player who has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt over the past several years that he CANNOT hit at the major league level, it’s Barnes. His batting skills are about right on par with most closers.
A player who has spent 6 years in the minors? Just give us the World Series already!
You aren’t still basking in the glory of 2020? Greedy….