Former MLB GM Says Dodgers Aren’t Expected To Be Active at Trade Deadline on One Condition

The Los Angeles Dodgers have several needs to fill this season, most of which involve pitching. Names such as Kyle Finnegan, Felix Bautista, and Aroldis Chapman, among others, have been thrown around as potential targets; however, one former MLB GM says that the Dodgers are not expected to be active at the trade deadline. In a recent piece from The Athletic, Jim Bowden suggested that all the Dodgers need is to get their pitching staff healthy.

“The Dodgers are not expected to be active at the trade deadline, if they’re able to get their roster healthy,” Bowden writes while discussing trade targets for each MLB contender. “Three of their top starting pitchers — Blake Snell, Shohei Ohtani and Tyler Glasnow, not to mention Roki Sasaki — are currently rehabbing, trying to work back from injuries. That’s three top-of-the-rotation starters, along with a rookie who is viewed as having that type of ceiling as well. If the Dodgers can get that trio healthy and maintain the health of their current rotation that includes Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Clayton Kershaw and Dustin May, they really won’t need any more pitching help considering some of their starters would be moving to the bullpen to provide more depth for that unit.”