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Dodgers Still Planning To Use Betts-Lux Middle Infield

By Anthony Franco | January 3, 2025 at 8:02pm CDT

The Dodgers added to their middle infield with the signing of KBO second Hyeseong Kim to a three-year contract. That fueled speculation about Los Angeles dealing one of their other infielders.

General manager Brandon Gomes downplayed the notion that adding Kim will spur another trade. “I think it’s more that we’re adding a really talented player, and [then we’ll] see where things play out,” Gomes told reporters (including Jack Harris of the Los Angeles Times). “It’s helpful to have really strong pieces at a lot of different areas. So that’s how we’re viewing it right now.” He added that the team’s “mindset” remains a middle infield pairing of Mookie Betts at shortstop and Gavin Lux at second base.

Before Gomes’ media session, Fabian Ardaya of the Athletic reported that the Dodgers view Kim as a utility player. Los Angeles values defensive flexibility as much as any team. The 25-year-old Kim has primarily been a second baseman but has experience in left field and at both positions on the left side of the infield. L.A. already has Miguel Rojas and Chris Taylor as veteran utility options. Tommy Edman can also play either middle infield spot but is expected to be the everyday center fielder between Michael Conforto and Teoscar Hernández. Assuming a four-man bench, Kim and backup catcher Austin Barnes would round out the position player group. That’d push outfielders Andy Pages and James Outman, each of whom has a minor league option left, to Triple-A if everyone’s healthy.

Rojas underwent postseason hernia surgery, but there’s no indication that’ll keep him from participating in Spring Training. Taylor is coming off a .202/.298/.300 showing. The organization clearly places a lot of emphasis on his versatility and clubhouse presence. L.A. designated former top prospect Diego Cartaya for assignment as the corresponding move for Kim. That suggests the Dodgers see a path to carrying all of Kim, Rojas and Taylor on the roster.

There could be an element of gamesmanship to Gomes’ comments. It wouldn’t do the team much good to proclaim they’re trying to deal a middle infielder even if they were. That said, it’s not surprising that the Dodgers don’t feel Lux’s situation changes much after the Kim signing. The latter’s three-year, $12.5MM guarantee is a modest investment that suggests MLB teams generally viewed him as a utility player rather than a regular.

Lux hit .251/.320/.383 with 10 homers while playing slightly below-average defense in more than 1000 innings at second base last year. He had a fantastic second half, hitting .304 with seven homers in 61 games after the All-Star Break. He has been a league average hitter over nearly 1500 MLB plate appearances. Evaluators question how much Kim will bring to the table offensively. It’d be risky for the Dodgers to deal Lux and expect Kim to handle the keystone.

The Dodgers also don’t have glaring weaknesses that they need to address via trade. There’s little reason to deal Lux for prospects. The Dodgers could open the season with a rotation including Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. They’re expected to bring Clayton Kershaw back. They might sign Roki Sasaki. Tony Gonsolin and Dustin May are returning from injury. The bullpen is the relative weak point, but Ardaya writes in a separate column at The Athletic that the team prefers to address that through free agency rather than trade.

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  1. MLB Top 100 Commenter

    10 months ago

    Hye-Seong Kim adds a lot of value. At that price, great signing no matter how they use him.

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    • sad tormented neglected mariners fan

      10 months ago

      Man instead of being an opening day leadoff man he’s going to be a pinch runner/defensive substitution

      But I get not wanting to go to a horrible team like Seattle or Anaheim

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      • Bivouac-Sal

        10 months ago

        He’ll have his day in LA. They signed him for 3 years plus a 2 year option.

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      • WadeBoggsWildRide

        10 months ago

        Definitely an unexpected signing for the Dodgers. Wonder if anyone got this in the contest?!

        Arenado just got a step further from being a Dodger.

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    • Dorothy_Mantooth

      10 months ago

      No one knows how Kim is going adjust to MLB pitching. Keep in mind that this is not the former Padres’ Kim, this is a different Kim with a very similar name. It’s smart of LA to hold onto Lux until they can see if Kim can be a legitimate hitter in this league.

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      • MLB Top 100 Commenter

        10 months ago

        Dorothy

        No more than keeping in mind Teoscar Hernandez and Kike Hernandez are not the same player either.

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    • thecoffinnail

      10 months ago

      I don’t know man. Great value signing yeah but look at that bench. Not one power threat among them and who is the 4th outfielder? They can’t be serious about using that bench for the season. Who takes over for Conforto when he goes down with a 2 month injury? Any team would be foolish not to sign Kim to that contract but to say “job done” on the position player off-season obviously isn’t true. Someone is getting traded for a 4th OF power threat or to make room for one.

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      • MLB Top 100 Commenter

        10 months ago

        Coffin

        Dalton Rushing and Pages are plenty to have as backup outfielders.

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  2. BlueSkies_LA

    10 months ago

    Whoa, got my MDR of thats in just one article.

    Anyway, as we know, spring training is where a lot of these seeming positional duplications shake out.

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  3. Zerbs63

    10 months ago

    Probably means a Kiki signing is out

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    • Cap & Crunch

      10 months ago

      Sadly yes

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    • letitbelowenstein

      10 months ago

      Careful. You’re making Alex Cora’s heart go pitter-patter.

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    • WadeBoggsWildRide

      10 months ago

      Probably a lot cheaper than Kike unfortunately.

      Reply
  4. spudchukar

    10 months ago

    In my opinión the Dodgers are waiting Edman in center. Yes his conversión to CF while with the Cards was aroring success, but he is a GG send baseman. And he can play SS as well if not better than Betts. Yes, it is hard to criticize the Dodger brass, but I still guess, I question the decisión.

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    • NickTheDev

      10 months ago

      It doesn’t really matter though because he is the best centerfielder on the Dodgers roster by a LOT which is why he will be the CF.

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      • roob

        10 months ago

        They should be trading for Luis Robert

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        • thecoffinnail

          10 months ago

          Why? Just because half the Dodgers rosters seems to be on the IL the past couple of seasons, doesn’t mean they are an automatic landing spot for every player made of glass. Besides the IL seems to be the only thing Robert can hit these days. I remember when he was an international free agent that big year when several top prospects were available and being very upset with how long he lingured before the Sox signed him. I thought for sure he was going to be expensive and that’s why the Yankees passed on him. When he signed for such a small contract I couldn’t believe he didn’t sign much sooner. Something in his medicals must have turned team’s off of him. I can’t remember what he signed for but it was way under everyone’s predictions. His constant injuries seem to prove those fears correct.

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    • norcalblue

      10 months ago

      Some great observations here (spudchukar and roob, in particular).

      I am perplexed as to why Mookie is plan A at SS.
      By his own admission, SS was too much for Mookie last year and I think it contributed to physical and mental fatigue, and quite possibly his injury.

      My thinking all winter has been that their real intentions were to put him at 2B after trading Lux; but that hasn’t happened. Unless the Mariners or some other team trade us prospect(s) comparable to what the Cubs sent us for Busch, seems as if Gavin’s our 2B— leaving Mookie and the team vulnerable at SS.

      I also thought Andrew was sniffing hard around Robert; but, that hasn’t happened. Robert in CF, Mookie in RF, signing HS Kim to play short and Edman at 2B (Lux included in the trade for Robert and/or a nice prospect package) was my dream outcome.

      Keeping fingers crossed on Roki.

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      • JCL10

        10 months ago

        His injury happened because of a high and inside fastball that broke his wrist. Completely unrelated.

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        • norcalblue

          10 months ago

          I’ll respond by first stating you are probably correct. Mookie has never suggested otherwise. I would never expect him to do so.

          That said, I would respectfully suggest there is a least some possibility that fatigue played a role in his inability to get away from the pitch. He was hit on Sunday, June 16–a day game after playing the night before in a 7-2 loss to KC. Prior to the HBP (the only time he had been hit all season), he was completing the worst six weeks of his season. In June he was slashing .208/.344/.358 with a .702 OPS. In May, he hit .276/.345/.390 with an OPS of .735. Well below his season average of .289/.372./.491-.863/OPS.

          In the weeks/months after the game he acknowledged being tired from the daily pressure of playing the most demanding position on the field and he later openly agreed that the team would be better, when he returned and he would be better in RF.

          More importantly, there is clear evidence that the stress of playing SS took a toll on his performance. Seems to me, he and the Dodgers would be better off with him playing a position less demanding than SS.

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        • norcalblue

          10 months ago

          Also, June 16 was the ONLY time Mookie was hit by a pitch in 2024.

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      • Brick House Coffee Tables Inc

        10 months ago

        Norcalblue, would Friedman send Lux and De Paula for Robert and a low A lottery ticket? The White Sox could probably flip Lux before spring training to a team like the Angels, and the Dodgers can move Betts back to 2B.

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        • norcalblue

          10 months ago

          I think it’s very unlikely that AF would include DePaula in a trade. Josue is probably untouchable. Robert has some serious baggage and is coming off a very unproductive season. Great upside, without question; but I don’t think 2 years of Robert is going to bring any team’s top prospect. Lux and a good prospect(s), yes.

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        • DroppedThirdStrike

          10 months ago

          Lux is probably untouchable until it’s seen if he can replicate his second half.

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        • Brick House Coffee Tables Inc

          10 months ago

          That’s fair but I think it will then have to be a 3-way trade. I don’t think that Chris Getz wants anybody arb-eligible. He’d rather take a couple of more prospects from a team like the Angels or Mariners than take Lux.

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        • norcalblue

          10 months ago

          That’s a reasonable conclusion DTS. I like Lux a lot and have been rooting for him. If he’s can sustain and build upon those 8 weeks from last July-August, Dodgers have an all star 2B!

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        • norcalblue

          10 months ago

          You make an interesting point BrickHouse. Friedman loves to cook up three way deals and the two of them have already done one. I think a deal with Seattle makes sense. Arte dislikes Andrew though, so the Angels will be a bigger challenge.

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  5. Cap & Crunch

    10 months ago

    Cut Taylor he’s cooked, keep Pages up all year

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    • BlueSkies_LA

      10 months ago

      Note, when the Dodgers needed a roster spot, Taylor was not the one who got the bus ticket.

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  6. rickoppelt

    10 months ago

    This is crazy. Baseball is broken.

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    • choof

      10 months ago

      Get over yourself dude it’s literally just over 4 million per year. That’s chump change for literally any organization. The coping over the Dodgers is embarrassing and that’s coming from a Brewers fan (aka a team that spends nothing)

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      • roob

        10 months ago

        Exactly. As a White Sox fan, I’m just hoping we don’t have 4 or 5 seasons of 100+ losses in a row. So, you fans of other teams, keep that in perspective.

        I’m not sure what number rebuild we’re on right now over the past dozen years. Talk about pathetic ownership.

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    • fox471 Dave

      10 months ago

      And here comes rickoppelt with the
      first” baseball is broken” whine. That will take care of any logical discussion.

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  7. DarkSide830

    10 months ago

    It always makes me wonder how teams will react after winning a championship. Does the money stream make you more or less inclined to spend. I do wonder at what point it becomes diminishing returns for the Dodgers.

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    • stevewpants

      10 months ago

      I think you’re on the right track. Not saying that this is the only consideration, but all of a sudden there’s a market the size of South Korea to get further interested in the Dodgers, their players, and purchasing their products.

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      • truthlemonade

        10 months ago

        Right. I was in South Korea in late 2006. I saw tons of people in San Diego Padres hats as that was the most recent team of Chan Ho Park.

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      • coloredpaper

        10 months ago

        Agreed. Look at their sales of Ohtani merchandise in Japan after he signed. They signed HSK not just to help on the baseball side, but also on the business side as they have now tapped into the South Korean market as well.

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        • coloredpaper

          10 months ago

          And yes, I realize that they have had Chan-Ho Park and Hee-Seop Choi play for them years ago.

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        • coloredpaper

          10 months ago

          Oops, forgot about Ryu.

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  8. Burgeezy

    10 months ago

    Posturing

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  9. GOP Lizards

    10 months ago

    Now just words until it’s not. I cannot see them wanting to put the wear and tear of SS on Betts for the entire season.

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  10. CarverAndrews

    10 months ago

    All signs point to Gavin being something of a Lux-ury after this latest move.

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    • Bart Harley Jarvis

      10 months ago

      The Dodgers just seem to be looking for a Lux exit plan.

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    • dodgerdude

      10 months ago

      Maybe part of an Arenado trade? Muncy slides to 2B. Kim is utility. Improves offense and defense even with Arenado declining

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      • WadeBoggsWildRide

        10 months ago

        This is what I am hoping for.

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        • Bivouac-Sal

          10 months ago

          Dodgers are not trading for Arenado.

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        • WadeBoggsWildRide

          10 months ago

          No but it would be cool.

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  11. CardsFan57

    10 months ago

    That team is very well rounded and deep.

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    • good vibes only

      10 months ago

      That’s one way to put it haha

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  12. Sgt_Pecker

    10 months ago

    Betts will be back in RF by the end of May.

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    • This one belongs to the Reds

      10 months ago

      It is not exactly the “D-Lux” package, after all.

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  13. please disperse

    10 months ago

    It’s all good. If every other team can sign multiple all stars to deals that defer absurdly high amounts of money into the future; they’ll all have this glut of options and riches.

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    • YankeesBleacherCreature

      10 months ago

      They can but they choose not to.

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      • Braves_saints_celts

        10 months ago

        Here we go with the can but they dint bs. Yes they absolutely can but your telling me a player would choose the rockies, rays, pirates, brewers, white Sox, A’s over the dodgers if they had to have defferams in their contracts? I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again if I’m going to a team that isn’t as deep and talented as the dodgers then I want no defferals, no trade clauses, etc. If my contract can’t be like that then of course I’m going to the dodgers. So don’t be so disingenuous about it the dodgers can do way more than other teams can!

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    • wallabeechamp

      10 months ago

      They ALL CAN. They just don’t have to because there are a bunch of whiners all around making excuses for billionaires to cry poor.

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  14. MartialArtisan

    10 months ago

    If this is true what does that say about Seattle? He would’ve been a starter there. For Kim and Santana both to reject their offers for less playing time for the former and less money the latter, it goes to show just how bad Seattle looks to free agent hitters.

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    • CardsFan57

      10 months ago

      It may have something to do with how much more marketable you are as a Dodger, especially in Asia. The Yankees used to be the most marketable. I think the Dodgers have passed them.

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    • PrincessYuki

      10 months ago

      Dylan and Moore and Roger Bliss will be at second base and JP Crawford will be at shortstop. What the Mariners really need is a third baseman.

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      • CGG12

        10 months ago

        And 1B unless they plan on running Locklear and/or Raley out there.

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  15. CCooper8920

    10 months ago

    No other team has a chance, especially when they get Roki. So happy baseball has bent over backwards for LA

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    • mlb1225

      10 months ago

      Why? The Dodgers have one of the smaller international bonus pools. I get the “Dodgers get everyone” narrative, but still. Most teams can outbid the Dodgers for Sasaki.

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      • Bivouac-Sal

        10 months ago

        The pool money is irrelevant. to Sasaki Or haven’t you been paying attention to the 10 million words written on the subject?

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        • mlb1225

          10 months ago

          He said he doesn’t care about the market size of teams, I know. I was thinking more like how big each team is in terms of payroll overall, not just what they can offer. I’m sure he’ll still take whatever the best offer is. Either way, I don’t think the Dodgers are the best fit. His agent made a pretty big point about how the Japan media treated him, and the Dodgers get more Japan media coverage than any team in MLB.

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        • BlueSkies_LA

          10 months ago

          Nobody knows what is relevant to Sasaki, not even his agent. This was among the 10 million words.

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    • fox471 Dave

      10 months ago

      OMG cooper! Give it a rest. Any team could have picked up Kim. Any team can get Roki. You know it and so do we all.

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  16. Bivouac-Sal

    10 months ago

    what color is your tin foil hat?

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    • NashvilleJeff

      10 months ago

      @Sal: Best guess is that it’s silver w/lots of little points on top.

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      • Bivouac-Sal

        10 months ago

        As good a guess as any Jeff.

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  17. Salzilla

    10 months ago

    I’ve been out since the news broke so I’ll just comment here, that other post is bananas, 500 comments? My god.

    Anyhoo, it’s not really a needed move, but the money is util money so is it really a big deal or a broken system? Nah. LAD has a lot of cache right now, so even at this relatively low amount it probably was attractive to Kim.

    Now if other teams offered more that’d be really telling of LAD’s allure.

    They can probably deal Taylor or Rojas though for RP and keep Pages on the roster, whom they really should. Kid showed a bit last season.

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  18. YankeesAreDodgersEast

    10 months ago

    Are we allowed to do that, or is that unfair?

    We should ask the other 29 and their fan bases for permission, don’t want to get them in a temper tantrum.

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  19. Dumpster Divin Theo

    10 months ago

    The Dodfers should pick up Kevin Newman to play short and flip Mookie Betts to third and Gavin Lux to second. That would be a pretty impregnable defence: Betts/Newman/Lux aka BeNeLux. A veritable Maginot Line.

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    • Bart Harley Jarvis

      10 months ago

      Hey, it failed miserably once, but who’s to say it’ll happen again. (Not that a lot of thought didn’t go into this.)

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      • Dumpster Divin Theo

        10 months ago

        So long as Max Kepler or Domingo German aren’t at the dish

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  20. pepenas34

    10 months ago

    Do Dodgers have one week to get at least int. signing bonus? or draft pick for Diego?

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    • MT17

      10 months ago

      Great question! Maybe this is part of their plan to maximize int’l bonus pool $$: trade Cartaya for the maximum 60%.

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    • Bivouac-Sal

      10 months ago

      You can’t trade for 2025 international pool money until Jan 15. So no they can’t get any for Cartaya.

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  21. leftcoaster

    10 months ago

    Pages is too dynamic of a player to be toiling in Oklahoma. He needs to regularly be in the Dodgers lineup. Hopefully he doesn’t become a Konerko or Alvarez trade story.

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    • Dumpster Divin Theo

      10 months ago

      Or hopefully he does become a Konerko story wink wink nudge nudge

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      • norcalblue

        10 months ago

        You’re dreaming Dumpster. The nightmare days of Lasorda and Ned Colletti impersonating front office decision-makers and trading the likes of Pedro, Konerko and Santana are over—thankfully.

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  22. highflyballintorightfield

    10 months ago

    As noted in the article, the incumbent Dodgers bench is Barnes, Taylor, Rojas, and Pages. All RH so I get why a LH bat would be helpful. But I would think they could find a better one than this. In Friedman We Trust but it’s hard to see how this guy is worth blocking Pages and loding Cartaya.

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    • BlueSkies_LA

      10 months ago

      I believe the answer might be found in Kim having won the KBO version of the Gold Glove several times and being good on the base paths. It also might have something to do with Lux having terrible splits against LHP.

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  23. creacher

    10 months ago

    It does matter who’s out there, after all month or so they’ll pull someone out of nowhere on a stupid deal

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  24. Melchez17

    10 months ago

    Wouldn’t the defense be better if you moved Betts to CF and Edman to SS?

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  25. Melchez17

    10 months ago

    Tiger-Dodgers-Cards trade
    Dodgers get 3B Arenado
    Tigers get OF Andy Pages and C Hunter Feduccia
    Cards get a gaggle of players from the Tigers… Lange, McKinstry, Mize, Manning…? (Tigers get Matz if Cards want to dump salary?)

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    • BlueSkies_LA

      10 months ago

      The Dodgers take on an underwater contract and give up two controlled players for the privilege? Nice! Friedman would instantly be committed to the goofy ward if he got involved with a deal like this.

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    • mlbdodgerfan2015

      10 months ago

      Most ridiculous trade offer I’ve seen. Are the Dodgers some kind of charity organization giving away talent to acquire a washed up player in steep decline with a bad contract?

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  26. Bivouac-Sal

    10 months ago

    The Arenado to LA ship sailed years ago. Ain’t happening now.

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  27. jeffreybecker77

    10 months ago

    we’ll just buy guys, thanks. why trade when u print money

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  28. Skruf

    10 months ago

    No they’re not… Gomes Interview after the Teo Press Conference…

    Brandon Gomes YouTube Vid abt the 5:10 Mark:
    “We’re perfectly fine with that, knowing that there are other pieces in play that are really strong……” In the context of the conversation, I think he accidentally let the cat out of the bag. He’s not as Rico Suave as Andrew Friedman is yet….

    Gavin Lux has never won a gold glove at second base and probably won’t for the next few years, if ever.. why would you NOT have this guy start at second base? I don’t know, compare their stats..

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  29. Casey "Cash" Considerations

    10 months ago

    Good. The “trade Lux” crowd has been too loud ever since signing Kim. Lux’s capabilities are at least known. Who knows how good or bad Kim might be.

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