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Dodgers Designate Sergio Santos

By Jeff Todd | May 27, 2015 at 3:22pm CDT

The Dodgers have designated reliever Sergio Santos for assignment, the club announced. He’ll be replaced on the active roster by outfielder Chris Heisey, though more broadly the move is presumably related to the six-player trade expected to be announced soon — which will deliver new relief arms to L.A.

Santos, 31, came to Los Angeles on a minor league deal but quickly ascended to the MLB roster. Over 13 1/3 big league innings, he owns a 4.73 ERA with 10.1 K/9 versus 4.7 BB/9 and a 46.2% groundball rate. Santos seems likely to receive another chance at some point, with the Dodgers organization or otherwise, particularly as advanced metrics suggest his mediocre ERA has masked somewhat more promising actual performance levels.

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  1. GameMusic3

    10 years ago

    Not one of the group the Dodgers acquired was worth Santos or Withrow IMO.

    I can not find a reason the trade happened in any scenario.

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    • Andrew Y.

      10 years ago

      Withrow is a question mark after Tommy John. Not everyone comes back the same. Santos was marginal. Hatcher would have been a better axe. I know people are sad Uribe is gone, but it helps that we cleared up a roster logjam. Olivera is coming, Guerrero needs ABs, JT is a super sub. We got back a MLB-experienced starter, bench player and two prospects for a 36 YO 3B hitting .240.

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      • GameMusic3

        10 years ago

        Withrow has a higher ceiling than any of the players the Dodgers are receiving.

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        • Cam

          10 years ago

          And probably a lower floor due to the unknowns.

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    • fred-3

      10 years ago

      Healthy pitchers and better than injured pitchers right now for the Dodgers. Also, Santos isn’t worth fretting over and will probably clear waivers.

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    • kirkdavenport

      10 years ago

      Uribe’s agent asked Dodgers to trade him since Uribe was losing playing time and this is his walk year and needs to play full time to display any talent that remains – this was a gift trade to appease Uribe – all of the rest of the parts were meaningless – Stults was DFA’ed, Callaspo will be waived and the two other pieces are not worth much. Withrow was a ?? but not going to contribute for a year or so if that.

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  2. Douglas Rau

    10 years ago

    Wow, a 6 team trade? I don’t even want to begin to think of the paperwork that must be involved with that one.

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    • Dgr_4

      10 years ago

      I hope you meant to say “players”!

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      • Douglas Rau

        10 years ago

        Originally, the post itself said “6 teams”. It’s probably been edited by now but it was a funny error.

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  3. Billy Griffin

    10 years ago

    When are the Orioles going to get rewarded by giving Chris Davis all that money?? He can’t even hit the ball.

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  4. theo in 2016

    10 years ago

    Honestly want the cubs to grab him. They need bullpen help and when he was with the sox the stuff was there to dominate.

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  5. BlueSkyLA

    10 years ago

    Watching Santos pitch, his ERA seems to reflect his ability well enough, and I gain little new respect for any insights supposedly provided by advanced metrics. In fact I thumb my nose in their general direction.

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    • DAKINS

      10 years ago

      Enjoy your out-of-date, not entirely pitching related stats then.

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      • BlueSkyLA

        10 years ago

        I will enjoy seeing Santos being DFA’d because he isn’t good.

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        • DAKINS

          10 years ago

          As you should, I am well aware of how not good he is, I’m a Jays fan.

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          • BlueSkyLA

            10 years ago

            So what was your point, pray tell?

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            • DAKINS

              10 years ago

              The point was, solely judging a pitcher on ERA isn’t showing you the entire picture, but since you have shunned all forms of actual pitching independent performance data, (the kind that actually removes luck, and/or influence from other members of the team) I guess there is little I can do to show that to you. I’m not disagreeing with you about Santos being bad, but just going by ERA isn’t the way to prove it.

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              • BlueSkyLA

                10 years ago

                Have I really? Seems I just said that advanced metrics were not telling us anything about Santos that ERA (and watching him pitch) was not, contrary to the suggestion in the article.

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                • DAKINS

                  10 years ago

                  “I thumb my nose in their general direction.” I took that as you not regarding them as ever useful.

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                  • BlueSkyLA

                    10 years ago

                    Read for full content.

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                    • DAKINS

                      10 years ago

                      I did, and that is how you came across.

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                      • BlueSkyLA

                        10 years ago

                        You only need to consider my actual point, not how I came across. It seems you agree that advanced metrics should not lead us to believe that Santos is a better pitcher than his ERA suggests (the point to which I was responding), yet you also seem to be arguing that I have to respect the advanced metrics for some reason. This discussion is circular, and not a little ironic.

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