The Dodgers have struck a deal to acquire righty Jesse Chavez from the Blue Jays, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports tweets. Presumably the deal was done in conjunction with Toronto’s acquisition of Scott Feldman. Righty Mike Bolsinger is headed to Toronto in return, per Joel Sherman of the New York Post (via Twitter), with cash also moving form Toronto to Los Angeles, per a tweet from Shi Davidi of Sportsnet.ca.
Chavez, 32, has a 4.57 ERA but with a solid 9.1 K/9 and 2.2 BB/9 in 41 1/3 innings of relief this year. He spent most of the 2014 and 2015 seasons starting for the Athletics (when he briefly shared an organization with current Dodgers GM Farhan Zaidi).
The 28-year-old Bolsinger has made six starts for the Dodgers and hasn’t had much success, with a 6.83 ERA, 8.1 K/9 and 2.9 BB/9. He fared better with Triple-A Oklahoma City, with a 3.41 ERA and solid peripherals over 29 innings. He only throws in the upper 80s, which would appear to give him limited upside either as a back-end rotation option or as a reliever, but he does give the Blue Jays the advantage of providing flexibility, since he’ll be controllable for five more years beyond this one.
For puig
For a 4.55 ERA? I don’t think so
OMFG FINALLY
Bolsinger
I know nothing about this guy but when I click on his name it shows not too many innings. Is he a reliever?
Chavez is a stiff who mops up blowouts. Thanks for taking him off our hands.
Doesn’t answer my question…
Is he a Starter or Reliever?
Both
He’s one of those “swing” guys; can do both I’d say mainly long guy out of the pen, but can spot start when needed..
Thank you. I was wondering and had no idea. Well I can’t say I’m happy about the deal but what we I guess. I’m not sure why we got the guy but hopefully he can do an ok job for us when we need him to.
the dodgers are now the A’s… chavez, reddick, hill…..
And Ethier
Reddick, Anderson, McCarthy, Chavez, Hill, Kazmir, Blanton…the A’s are officially the Dodgers farm team, lol
Continue to be underwhelmed with the Dodgers strategy and it hasn’t even been announced who the swapped for him. Hopefully not another overpay situation.
Yea I gotta agree. I am not to thrilled. They were said to be all in this trade deadline which obviously is non sense. This is not all in what they did today. I’m confused by their moves. Yes Hill is good but has been injured this year and we have a sent players to the 22 times this year already so we don’t need anymore injury prone players. Riddick is a nice fit for this team but we really needed starting pitching and maybe even a reliever.
Anybody has to be better in our pen than Chavez…he’s a dang dumpster fire!
See ya Mike. Had a memorable stretch last year, hope he can repeat it in Toronto. I have an irrational hate for Chavez. He owned me in HS, that and he looks like a meth head. If he’s a temporary back end guy id rather have Brock Stewart get another shot.
so jays just getting rid of someone about to be a FA for someone with more control i guess
so Jays designate morales and trade chavez. Looks like the Jays brass was passed about losing yesterday so traded both pitchers responsible for the loss.
Curious as to what they will do with Chavez they already have Stripling for long relief
Dodgers will take all the spot starts they can get.
These moves reflect LA’s commitment to winning? Really? Not sure Chavez is an upgrade over Bolsinger. They had a surplus of OF and now it’s even more complicated with Reddick. I just cannot understand what Friedman is doing?
Nobody does, but so long he’s baffling everybody that makes him a genius.
I am underwhelmed. I don’t know why the Dodgers weren’t in on Moore. He will help the Giants for years to come.
I know why, because Friedman’s claim to be going after “elite players” is thinly sliced bologna designed to placate the fans, for whom he seems to have undisguised contempt.
They gave up Liam Hendricks to get Chavez and get a bandaid in return. Great show by the Toronto brass in converting an asset into nothing. I don’t believe it’s a coincidence the Indians starting winning once getting rid of their sh*t executives!
Their executives built most of that team that is now contending. If you honestly want to equate them leaving with the team suddenly doing well a whole one year later, you’re kind of clueless.
Since when is Liam Hendriks an asset? Is there any Jays fan that particularly misses him? You’re not thinking of Kyle Hendricks are you?
Hendricks sucks
Is this trade really “Dodgers Acquire Jesse Chavez” or more about the Jays acquiring Bolsinger? That’s what I’m thinking drove this trade…