The Dodgers designated shortstop Nick Ahmed for assignment and optioned rookie outfielder Andy Pages to Triple-A Oklahoma City this evening. The move opened spots on the major league roster for Max Muncy and Tommy Edman, both of whom have returned from the 60-day injured list. Ahmed’s DFA opened one spot on the 40-man roster, while the Dodgers transferred River Ryan to the 60-day IL to create an additional spot. Ryan underwent Tommy John surgery and is done for the season. Los Angeles also recalled catcher Hunter Feduccia and placed veteran backup Austin Barnes on the 10-day injured list with a toe fracture.
Ahmed signed with the Dodgers a month ago. With Mookie Betts and Miguel Rojas out at the time, Los Angeles added Ahmed directly onto the major league roster. The defensive stalwart started 14 games at shortstop. He continued to provide defensive value but didn’t produce much offensively. While Ahmed hit a go-ahead home run to help beat the Giants (his former team) early in his Dodger tenure, he ultimately hit just .229/.245/.292 in 49 trips to the plate.
Between San Francisco and L.A., Ahmed carries a .232/.271/.300 batting line through 221 plate appearances. While he has never been a huge offensive threat, Ahmed has particularly struggled at the dish over the last two seasons. The two-time Gold Glove winner remains a strong defender, but the lack of firepower at the plate has squeezed him off a trio of rosters within the past two seasons. The Dodgers have welcomed Betts and Rojas back in recent weeks. Even with Betts returning to the outfield, they were comfortable enough with their infield depth to waive deadline pickup Amed Rosario after five games.
Los Angeles now adds two more infield-capable players in Muncy and Edman. The former should return to his everyday work at third base, moving Enrique Hernández back into a utility role. Muncy has been out for three months after suffering an oblique strain that proved more significant than the team initially expected. The power-hitting infielder was out to a .223/.323/.475 start to the season.
Edman is a versatile defender who can play essentially anywhere aside from catcher. He has spent the entire 2024 campaign on the injured list. Edman underwent postseason surgery on his right wrist while he was a member of the Cardinals. St. Louis hoped he’d be ready around Opening Day, yet a much slower recovery process kept him from even going on a rehab assignment until mid-July. The Dodgers nevertheless acquired Edman alongside Michael Kopech in a three-team trade that was one of the biggest moves of deadline season. St. Louis landed Erick Fedde and Tommy Pham from Chicago, who centered their return around Miguel Vargas from Los Angeles.
The Stanford product is now set for his Dodger debut. Manager Dave Roberts told reporters last week that Edman will get the bulk of his work in center field (X link via Fabian Ardaya of the Athletic). A middle infielder by trade, Edman had never started a major league game in center until last season. The Cards gave him 310 2/3 innings there and were rewarded with strong defensive grades — which has been a theme for Edman no matter where he’s played — in that relatively limited sample.
Plugging Edman into the outfield squeezes Pages off the MLB roster for now. The 23-year-old has had a decent if unexceptional rookie season, hitting .246/.305/.388 across 394 trips to the plate. Kevin Kiermaier should move into a fourth outfield capacity while Pages gets everyday playing time for a couple weeks in OKC. Reporter Francys Romero tweets that the Dodgers are likely to recall the Cuban-born outfielder once active rosters expand to 28 players on September 1.
Jack Harris of the Los Angeles Times first observed that Pages and Ahmed were being sent out.
Watch padres snatch up Ahmed if Kim misses time
Has anyone ever played for 3 divisional teams during one season?
You’re aware there is standings pecking order to waiver claims, right?
There’s actually a good chance all 30 teams pass on Ahmed
Why mojo dojo. Who do you see claiming ahmed
perhaps the Seibu Lions
You’re aware there is standings pecking order to waiver claims, right?
I hope Kim is not badly hurt. But if you need him, I hope you get Ahmed. Happy now?
Tyler Wade is a better option for short term. X moves back if long term – or Tatis come back in 2 weeks and goes to SS? Peralta isn’t hurting SD in RF.
He actually has and cost the game yesterday, js
Low – a 9 inning ballgame where everyone made outs instead of hitting home runs is not the place to say 1 player in 1 play “cost the game”.
Not like a QB throwing 4 ints.
LTC
No player in a baseball game ever costs their team the game. That’s just not how baseball works
Bro, I agree. That is why is posted what I did to counter what Low had posted.
I read your post to me as if you weren’t aware of what and why I said what j said.
Fernando back at SS would hurt the padres but would still be cool
Machado or profar back at SS would be an even cooler throwback
Tatis won’t be back in two weeks, but if he does make it back, RF is where he most improves the team
Brew – I’m hopeful Tstos will be back in 2 ish weeks. Also hopeful Kim isn’t out that long!
I agree RF is the desired spot but if Kim is out (might as well start figuring out SS now) then creativity will be the key. It’s probably Bog which can get Solano’s bat back in the lineup – defense drops some but offense might improve.
Eguy get a call up if Kim goes on IL? Rather see Tirso but positional wise – although Tirso is getting some 1b time at AAA now.
I wish they could free up more ABs for Solano. But the UT reported this morning that the team is apparently considering Cronenworth at SS if Kim is out long term, as they don’t want to move Bogey off of 2B.
But yeah, if Kim goes on IL I wonder who gets the call up – I think you’re right it will probably be Eguy
Brew – if the plan is to keep Bogey at 2b going forward, I’m actually fine with Cro being the guy for however long Kim is out. It makes sense to keep him acclimated at 2b. Cro might even be better when given 25-30 games than Bogey at this point!
I have to believe teams and players have some side conversations about the future – Kim declines and we want to keep you – or not – type things. Maybe the player, ala Soto, makes it abundantly clear, I’m testing waters, etc.
Kim has regressed offensively but would still want him there in 2025. The problem, if he wants a 4-5 year deal (and should), why do they with DeVries being 2 years out? You can’t extend / sign everyone for the next 10 years!
Hopefully,
I can’t wait for Tatis to come back and ruin the Padres chemistry
Tara, chemistry is real for sure and SD seems to have a great chemistry right now.
That said, a generational talent gets heathy then he helps the team.
Also, you are surely aware that Tatis has been in the dugout for every inning since he went on IL, right? He is seen cheerleading during the games. He was also on the field for 1/2 the season and wasn’t a problem.
Begs the question, what makes you think he will ruin the chemistry? Just hoping or hating on Tatis for hate sake?
In 2014 Kelly Johnson played for the Yankees, Red Sox and Orioles. And that was after spending the previous two seasons playing for the Blue Jays and Rays
In ’77 Dave Kingman played in all 4 divisions and homered for each team. The more you know.
What is a “go around home run”? An inside the park home run?
think he means “go-ahead” homer
Or, what goes around comes around.
Home run that nets the team a lead after previously trailing
These roster moves throughout MLB have to be held to a number. It’s gotten ridiculous.
Ahmed lasted a month. Rosario less than that. The average fan can’t follow this. FO’s playing Rotisserie League for real.
Enough already.
well some fans are smarter than others.
“Enough already”..I get your point. 5+ years ago I knew the names and profiles of 90% of MLB players. These days I know about 50%(at best)of player names and profiles. MLB has done a MAJOR operating SHIFT in that(good)players no longer spend 4+ yrs in the minors. I’d estimate that 5+ yrs ago 80% of Major Leaguers were experienced players who’d already spent years honing the finer points of their craft in the minors. And today, the pace of Major League initial debuts is so dizzying that I don’t even bother trying to keep up. Major League baseball has clearly shifted from an experienced player model to a young, inexperienced(cheap) player model, which has lowered the level of play substantially in my honest opinion.
I’m sorry you can’t keep up. But can we ask a question, what exactly would you like to change? Pretty sure the Dodgers would have preferred to not have a team of all stars on the IL for half the season,.
But yeah, let’s limit the roster moves so you can keep up. Terribly sorry.
single syllables please Miles
You guys don’t get my point……
You think I’m stupid? OK. Please who me what gains the Dodgers made with all these little moves.
Are the Dodgers even a team? Can we talk about their infield the way we talked about Garvey, Lopes, Russell, Cey? If a fan doesn’t follow Dodger news everyday on their smart phone they don’t even know who is on the team.
I worked in offices with a group of people that participated in Rotisserie Leagues. Every day – “Should I play player X tonight”. “Whatdaya think if I trade player Y for player Z?”. Every GD day. It was ridiculous. Warren Buffett didn’t become the most successful investor of 2-1/2 generations by buying and sell stocks each day because he thought he found something better.
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Your “team” claimed a so-so SS for a month, then jettisoned him and claimed a different so-so SS? Wow! How exciting!!
I used to admire Andrew Friedman. Now it’s become clear that his success is based on having his pitchers overuse parts of their arm, shoulder, forearm, hand, fingers to get an edge, and when they get injured find a way to “fix” another guy looking for Andy Warhol’s: “15 Minutes of Fame” – which is about your concentration level so you can check the exciting news to find who is on the Dodgers roster today because someone else got used up.
Well you said it yourself. “The average fan can’t follow this.” So I understand your plight.
Sam
“You think I’m stupid? ”
I don’t think your rant here is very intelligent.
“Are the Dodgers even a team? ”
Yes. Definitely.
“Can we talk about their infield the way we talked about Garvey, Lopes, Russell, Cey?”
What does that have to do with anything?
“I worked in offices with a group of people that participated in Rotisserie Leagues. Every day – “Should I play player X tonight”. “Whatdaya think if I trade player Y for player Z?”. Every GD day. It was ridiculous. Warren Buffett didn’t become the most successful investor of 2-1/2 generations by buying and sell stocks each day because he thought he found something better.”
What does this have to do with anything?
“Your “team” claimed a so-so SS for a month, then jettisoned him and claimed a different so-so SS? Wow! How exciting!!”
What two SSs are you talking about? Also a transaction doesn’t have to be “exciting” to make sense.
“which is about your concentration level so you can check the exciting news to find who is on the Dodgers roster today because someone else got used up.”
Seems like you’re contradicting yourself
Is it that it it takes too much concentration to keep up with the Dodgers’ transactions or is it that some undefined entity doesn’t have enough concentration to follow the Dodgers.
Your rant is all over the place. 3/10
We dont think you’re stupid Samuel, we know you’re stupid. Shut up about rotisserie leagues, it’s played out, you sound dumb
In Samuel’s defense the Dodgers have made some head scratching moves this season as it seems they reached the limit off the great depth they’ve displayed in years past. Getting rid of Yarbrough, who was a rubber arm out of the bullpen, and now getting rid of Honeywell, who has also pitched pretty well. Sending Pages down but keeping Kiermaier. The revolving door of castoffs from other team’s as they’ve tried to piece together a roster (Biggio, Ahmed, Rosario, Trammell) all seem very Un-Dodgers like.
No. There is no defense for Samuel. He’s a turd demon with little intelligence. That is all.
And why is everyone acting like Honeywell pitched well? AAA and majors looks like dump
RSox
“the Dodgers have made some head scratching moves this season as it seems they reached the limit off the great depth they’ve displayed in years past. Getting rid of Yarbrough, who was a rubber arm out of the bullpen, and now getting rid of Honeywell, who has also pitched pretty well. ”
Honeywell wasn’t pitching well. He had a low ERA, but ERA isn’t a good stat for measuring pitcher performance.
Yarborough, wasn’t really pitching well either – largely because he wasn’t being used in the roll he’s best suited for – long reliever going through the order more than once
Keirmaier is a elite defender, Pages isn’t really a CFer. If they option Pages, they can keep him in the organization and call him up later. They can’t necessarily do that with Keirmaier – at least it’s a more complicated transaction.
Yes, the depth has been tested. They’ve had a ton of pitching injuries and a few key injuries to hitters. They brought in replacements as needed.
3/10 is generous
Yarbrough has a 6.10 ERA since June and the Dodgers needed someone who could play CF, as Andy Pages clearly cannot.
Honeywell started well and then had a 1.88 WHIP in his last 4 appearances prior to being let go.
You can’t buy chemistry
flaherty and kopech beg to differ
You mean like Tracy and Hepburn? Tell me more!
But you can buy the Yeasayer album, Amen and Goodbye which includes the song ‘I Am Chemistry’. Which is just as good.
But you can buy chemicals
Not too shabby:
DH: Shohei Ohtani
RF: Mookie Betts
1B: Freddie Freeman
LF: Teoscar Hernández
2B: Gavin Lux
C: Will Smith
3B: Max Muncy
SS: Miguel Rojas
CF: Tommy Edman
Unfortunately they can’t pitch
said the fan of the 25th ranked pitching staff about the 7th ranked staff.
Dude our whole staff was out worst then yours. Still right behind you in the standings which is hilarious and pitiful on the dodgers part
Yeah let’s play “who had more injuries. ” What a sad argumenet. Get real. Buehler, Sheehan, Hurt, Graterol, Treinen, Brasier, Brogdon, Miller, Heyward, Phillips, Muncy, Betts, Kelly, Taylor, Rojas, Grove, Yamamoto, Glasnow, Barnes. And you’re not right behind the Dodgers.. You’re behind the Padres.
I would probably take Gallen, Kelly and either Pfaadt or ERod in a short series over whatever the Dodgers might throw
To be fair, spending $175m less than The dodgers, we’ve had Gallen, Kelly, Erod, Monty, Marte, walker, perdomo, Moreno, Nelson, and others all out this year with walker Marte and gabby out right now. To only be 3-4 back of the dodgers is nuts especially spending so much less. Having less to trade with, less to buy with and less to buy international prospects with. Yes the dodgers are probably the most injured team in baseball but the dbacks are probably second to that. But they’re still right behind… just saying man..
Ok you win. Your argument is just so strong.
Pads, Snakes and Dodgers are three good teams. I think the competition is great. You parse it out however it makes you feel better.
Not trying to win, I’m saying that both teams are right next to each other and both injured severely. One team spend twice as much and has the availability to get whoever they want but they’re still right next to each other lol.
Actually the 2024 team total payrolls are
LAD 238 mill
AZ 175 mill
SD 167 mill
So enjoy that.
Are you counting active and injured? Last I checked was $325m dodgers and $165m dbacks. Could be wrong but I checked post trade deadline on Spotrac. Also to note, gotta tac on another $70m just for ohtani, that $2m a year doesn’t count hahaha. Or at least average it out over 20 Y to $35m per year on top.
yes. here you can look it all over yourself…
spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/_/year/2024/sort/cap_total…
Fair enough! Love this tight race! Makes for great baseball
Zack: That I can heartily agree with.
ate you looking at the dbacks team now. marte walker moreno out as well! Seawald was out as well. You should be 10 games up with your payroll. miller buheler are just trash now. Injuries have nothing to do with it. Dodgers are awful. your always om here looking to defend your awful team to anyone who says a negative thing about them. They suck and never win. Just accept this and you will feel better
Taker: You start out by saying “Dude our whole staff was out worst than (sic) yours.” And now come back with “Injuries have nothing to do with it.” Make up your mind. I hope it makes a long warm cozy winter for you gnashing your teeth about how the rich kids took advantage of you. Might be easier for you if you simply enjoyed the division race.
We have a team of 7 posters who are each paid $25,000 for the regular season to use this screen name to combat poor saps like you. They each will get an additional $10,000 for the playoffs when we will add another 5 posters to the team. We concentrate only on Dbacks posters. Padres posters seem to be more sane and significantly more intelligent than the Snakes contingent.
Is this a private fight or can anybody join?
Pile on.
TD
“Dodgers are awful. your always om here looking to defend your awful team to anyone who says a negative thing about them. They suck and never win. Just accept this and you will feel better”
Muted.
No interesting baseball discussion seems likely to come from you
but he does provide comic relief Bro.
Between you and the idiot who muted your mad. Your team blows. If I say anything your Ultra sensitive like a woman. You come and reply on most of my comments. all I said is they can’t pitch and you complain
stupid AND misogynistic. every time you open your mouth you embarrass yourself. I didn’t complain. I pointed out your staff is near the bottom of MLB and LAD is in the top ten. I should let your misinformation pass? You’re here for the attention. I provide it. Be happy. Oh wait. That’s beyond you isn’t it?
God I would love to see what you look like! You are the most annoying person.Go look at your comments to when anyone states the dodgers are underperforming. Dbacks kicked their a$$. If you win the chip your supposed to win so no one cares! If you don’t your team is a bust like usual! Get a life!
a classy and thoughtful response as usual.
Lmao classy? You start all this.if you can’t take criticism of your team them you shouldn’t be on here. I love my team but I’m not stupid. We have faults. my manager is annoying. Makes dumb moves. Part of sports man. Just cause you love the dodgers don’t mean reality doesn’t exist
If you would take the time to read the exchanges I have with other Snakes fans you’ll find compliments from me on what a strong team the Snakes have, statements about looking forward to the final weeks of the division race and civil discussions about baseball topics. It’s you who makes hyperbolic statements about how your opponents –at least LAD–“suck” and are “an awful team” etc etc. I’m sure you know that is all BS. You respond to every one of my posts and at the same time castigate me for responding to yours. Try raising the level of your discourse and we will all be better for it. Or STFU. There are three very good teams in the West race, none of them perfect, but all of them very competitive. You want to stay hung up on the big market versus small market thing, knock yourself out. But it’s boring. If your team had the same money they’d spend it. In any case the Snakes have put together an excellent squad. If your team wins, more power to you. I will be the first to say congrats.
Bro cut the crap You STFU. I have all the comments. You come find me on all my statements. I never reply to you but once! Couldn’t care less about you or the dodgers. I see all your comments to people who don’t like the dodgers. Your a sore loser and can’t take any negative comments. How is me saying the hitting lineup cant pitch a bad thing? Since your staff is struggling? You take everything to the heart. Dude we can do this. You stop commenting on me and when I make statement on the dodgers leave it alone.
“Couldn’t care less about you or the dodgers.” Obviously.
When children get this cranky their parents make them take a nap.
I get this but I still like it the other way.
RF: Mookie Betts
DH: Shohei Ohtani
1B: Freddie Freeman
LF: Teoscar Hernandez
2B: Gavin Lux
C: Will Smith
3B: Max Muncy
SS: Miguel Rojas/Kike Hernandez
CF: Tommy Edman
me too with Mookie. But I will grin and bear it.
and let’s not forget Shohei has stolen 37 bags and counting.
40/40 is pretty much in the bag. Another baseball achievement for Shohei.
I think Ohtani SB numbers are inflated and I think this pitch clock timer is the cause. I’m convinced this move to increase offense has created a weird ripple when it comes to SBs and I don’t like it. We are now going to have multiple 50sb players after year where we had a 40-70 player. It’s stupid and it happened so quickly after years where stolen bases stagnated.
The Pitch clock coupled with the two disengagements per AB has led to an increase in Stolen Bases. That said i don’t mind it. The Red Sox have their first set of teammates with 30+ steals in the same season since 1910
Agreed Rsox.
Polls say most fans find more SB’s add excitement to the game.
The fact the stat lasted for over 110 years then was repeated 1 year after the rule change shows a heavy hand in correction.
Mojo you can’t say you aren’t biased.
Bauer–
Of course I am biased. I bleed Dodger blue. But apart from that exactly to what do you refer?
The stolen base was neutralized by analytics. Before the analytics era, 100 bag seasons were not uncommon. MLB did what they saw was necessary to bring back the running game. I’m not thrilled by the rule changes but I’m even less thrilled by the ways analytics changed the game in the first place.
Exactly!
“Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational battle station!”
A team for the ages……
Or maybe until this coming weekend.
P.S. Both the Padres and DBacks play better baseball. I watch the games. That’s why the Dodgers wash out come the playoffs every year.
It’s the weekend after next, but we’re all looking forward to it. Should be fun.
” the Dodgers wash out come the playoffs every year.”
You mean the way the Snakes lost the big one last fall? Well done.
They lost but meanwhile didn’t even make it ♂️♂️ I’d be crying too if another team beat me so bad that I had to spend one billion dollars in the off-season just to become better.
You guys**
I’m not as smart as you, obviously. Who is supposed to be crying in your scenario? And you are aware that the billion bux you refer to is spread over 10 years, are you not? And you’re aware that the two highest priced players –Ohtani & Yamamoto–were sought after by multiple teams who made similar offers, or do we have to go over all of that again slowly for you?
Exactly never seen such a sore loser!
Doesn’t matter if its spread out. A billion is a billion, do I need to say that again slowly for you? Or is the salt from your tears still too much that you can’t read properly?
Oh you set the rules of math. Did you not finish high school?
Since you’re a Dodger fan, it’s probably safe to say you didn’t. When are you getting your GED?
now there is snappy and creative comeback. I’m out. You’re too easy.
Easy like your team in playoffs. It’s okay to admit defeat buddy.
Welcome to Atlanta, Nick
Won’t accept a Ring. Don’t even offer it.
With all of these roster moves I thought they’d call up rushing…
But their outfield is stacked enough to block rushing so I don’t think he sees action until 2025
We hated to lose Edman. Not a super star but a grinder who will play anywhere with steller defense and grind out ABs. Great speed with some pop. If healthy a very good pickup
On the flip side I haven’t heard any cardinals fans saying that they hate acquiring fedde and Pham
hopefully that trade works well for all 3 teams
Unless the Braves pull off a miracle with all their injuries, there’s a realistic chance 4 teams from the NL West make the playoffs. And I’m not sure that’s happened since playoff expansion where a division had 4 teams in.
Hard to picture the Giants playing well enough down the stretch to beat both the Braves or the Mets to the punch. A long shot, but as you say, it’s possible. Even if it does I don’t suppose we will ever hear the end of the trash talking of the NLW.
Yeah, maybe a longshot, but I think it would be fun to have NL playoffs full of teams that play games when Passan et. al. are sound asleep.
Dodgers probably aren’t done yet. Chris Taylor is on a rehab assignment and is about a week away. If he’s back before the rosters expand there will have to be another DFA. It won’t be Kike’ and Kiermaier is getting more playing time than Heyward.
JHey should have just hurt his back again. dude hasn’t done squat for quite a while and Pages just started hitting.