The Dodgers signed left-hander Zach Logue to a minor league contract. He has been assigned to Triple-A Oklahoma City, where he’ll make his organizational debut tonight (h/t to OKC broadcaster Alex Freedman).
Logue elected free agency a week ago after being waived by the Braves. The 28-year-old had spent nearly the entire season with Atlanta’s Triple-A team. The Braves selected his contract in July but never got him into an MLB game. They designated him for assignment on September 1 when they signed John Brebbia.
A Kentucky product, Logue was one of four players whom the Blue Jays dealt to the A’s for Matt Chapman shortly after the lockout. The southpaw pitched at the major league level with Oakland in 2022 and had a brief stint with the Tigers last season. Opponents hit him hard, as Logue allowed nearly seven earned runs per nine across 68 innings. He struck out a below-average 17% of batters faced and allowed home runs far too frequently (2.12 per nine innings).
While Logue has yet to fool MLB hitters, he has had a very nice year in Triple-A. He worked in a swing capacity with Atlanta’s top affiliate, starting 12 of 23 appearances. Logue worked 90 2/3 frames of 2.68 ERA ball — the best ERA of any Triple-A pitcher with at least 75 innings. He struck out a solid 23.5% of opponents while keeping his walks to a modest 7.4% clip. He also had a lot more success keeping the ball in the park, allowing just 0.79 home runs per nine.
Logue will make the jump to the Pacific Coast League for the final two weeks of the minor league schedule. He’s ineligible for the postseason but could be an option for a spot start or long relief work in the regular season — especially if the Dodgers secure a first-round bye and want to rest their presumptive playoff arms in the final weekend. Logue would qualify for minor league free agency at the start of the offseason if the Dodgers do not call him up.
Darn Dodgers using their uberwealth to hog all the players! MLB needs to do something to fix this! Ruining the game!
/s
they’ll get theirs when they get eliminated 1st round of the playoffs again. lol.
They won’t have to play the first round of playoffs again..
How’d Baltimore do?
O’s beat KC in the first round. Congrats.
it’s always refreshing to read all the original musings from the deep thinkers here
Part of the disappointing Matt Chapman trade from A’s to Jays if I recall.
“if I recall” from reading the post on this page as far as the 3rd paragraph
Mojo
As a reader, I can’t really blame NRI for not reading the articles. They aren’t that great for the most part. Just churned out content
Bro
I knew I should have checked with you first.
Mojo
“I knew I should have checked with you first.”
I mean it would improve things a lot if people would run their ideas by me first…
But no idea what that has to do with this conversation.
I didn’t say anything about anything checking with me. Just stated my opinion that this site is mostly just useful for getting the headlines and that for the most part the articles are a waste of time
You can feel otherwise, and that’s ok.
whew. what a relief.
Mojo
Hey, you decided to check with me.
(Smart move by the way. The quality of your comments is going to go WAY up). Seriously, good move.
Or at least you made some trolly comment adding to the cesspool of MLBTR comments
try reading for comprehension. I didn’t check with you. I said I knew I should have. because you will disappoint everyone on this site if you don’t respond to every post. keep up the good work.
Mojo
rEaDiNg CoMpReHeNsIoN!
“I knew I should have checked with you first”
Who said anything about checking with anyone? That dumb idea came from your mind alone
Pity that you can’t get any attention for posting anything intelligent, so you just resort to this negativity to get the reaction you are so hungry for.
But I’ve fed you enough, troll
You’re a troll
I do read the whole article. I was trying to recall it myself. No mention of the final outcome of that trade. I recall it not working out for the A’s.
Reading comprehension might be too much for you but the number of syllables you use has risen. Congratulations.
same bs you hand everyone who gives your irrelevant and unnecessary posts static. everyone’s a troll. hilarious coming from you. buh bye now.
Mojo
“everyone’s a troll”
Not everyone
But the quality of discourse here is pretty bad. That’s directly related to the quality of the articles. You don’t see this idiocy at Fangraohs, for example
I would not be surprised if an NPB or KBO team comes knocking after such a strong season to see if he can handle a full season of innings in a rotation.
Logue Mahone!