The Dodgers have interest in injured Royals southpaw Danny Duffy, MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand reports (via Twitter). This completes the trio of NL West contenders looking at Duffy, since the Padres and Giants have also been linked to the veteran left-hander. San Francisco is known to be interested despite Duffy’s injury, and it can be assumed that the Dodgers are in the same position, considering that Duffy has been on the 10-day injured list for five days now.
Duffy is out of action with his second left flexor strain of the season, so he might not be available until at least early September, based on the timeline of his last IL visit. Since the NL West teams currently have a big lead on the rest of the National League for the two wild card positions, the Dodgers can be reasonably comfortable of reaching the postseason in one form or another, so Duffy could be saved as a late-season reinforcement. While it can certainly be argued that Los Angeles should spend its prospect capital on a healthy pitcher, the Royals’ asking price for Duffy probably isn’t very high, considering his injured status. Duffy controls his trade destiny thanks to 10-and-5 rights, and the California native might be willing to waive those rights to join a team in his home state. (If this is the case, the Angels and Athletics would also seem like hypothetical fits for a Duffy trade.)
More from the AL Central…
- It remains to be seen if the Indians will be buyers, sellers, or a bit of both at the trade deadline, but there don’t appear to be any plans to move Jose Ramirez. MLB Network’s Jon Morosi (Twitter link) reports that Cleveland isn’t having “active talks” about a Ramirez deal with any rival team, which perhaps isn’t surprising considering the big-picture ramifications of such a trade. Moving a star player with such an affordable contract would seemingly indicate a turn towards a rebuild for the Tribe, who haven’t given any indication they’re not planning to contend again in 2022. Unsurprisingly, “the asking price is extremely high” for Ramirez, Morosi writes.
- The Twins are considering all options as the trade deadline approaches, including the possibility of including two or more players together in a single trade. In an interview on MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM earlier today, Twins chief baseball officer Derek Falvey told Jon Morosi and company that such a package deal is “something we have talked about.” Possibilities abound for such trades, though since the Twins are reportedly not keen to move players controlled beyond 2021, however, I would think a package deal might be more suited as a way of generating a greater return for rental players. Someone like Andrelton Simmons or Michael Pineda alone might not bring back much in the way of prospects, but putting the two veterans into one deal might get a team to budge on a slightly higher-tier minor leaguer. Conversely, the Twins could also look into packaging a rental player with someone with more control (i.e. Byron Buxton or Taylor Rogers).
Duffy is close friends with Eric Hosmer, so the possibility of pursuing another ring with him might be enough to get him to waive his protection for San Diego. Pads and Royals have made several trades together, too.
If he doesn’t require TJ (and maybe even if he does), he’ll sign with KC this winter no matter what.
Duffy is a huge Lakers fan
Nobody’s perfect. Go Celtics. Duffy is constantly hurt. SD just needs the guys they have to pitch better and get healthy.
I’m thinking that Duffy would probably be OK with a trade to the Padres and I KNOW he’s a big Lakers fan, but basketball season is over for now. I’m not sure about the Giants as I don’t know how much of a buddy he was with Johnny Cueto (that’s the only one he would know from that team. In fact he and Johnny Cueto won a ring together in 2015.) I just remember how sad Kelvin Herrera was when he got traded, so I think Danny might be able to handle it better if he was traded to a team where he knows someone..it might help him.
Friedman needs to go get a reliever.
Kimbrel sounds nice after this last week.
Lol! You said “ring” in the same sentence as Padres.
Morosi also reports that the Angels don’t plan to move Ohtani but if they do the price will be very high.
Twins should start with trading the Dynamic Duo in the FO for a peanutbutter and Jelly sandwich to be named later… in their 5 years at the helm.. they have produced nothing of consequence…
So they wiff one year and you forget about winning two recent division titles? Granted, this was a bad time to wiff and it was easy to see that pitching was gonna be our downfall, but don’t be one of these guys that turns on them immediately. Have you noticed that there draft picks are doing well in the minors for the most part? Like everyone they’re gonna have some bad trades, but they’ve had some good ones too. Finding a devalued Duran, for example. They’re return on two months of Cruz is better than could possibly have been expected. Blame them for this year, but don’t be writing them off entirely.
I will say that if the FO can’t bring back Buxton then I will much more critical. He’s a significant injury risk, but that makes him a more affordable superstar. Given that Minnesota doesn’t attract superstars I think Buxton is a risk that must be taken, especially considering Celestino isn’t ready and Gordon isn’t an everyday CF. I will feel similarly about Berries, though the Cru trade will give us at least one rotation piece for next year.
Superstar not with those numbers. Maybe loads of talent yet to produce.
I don’t believe in playing or building a team to be competitive… those are meaningless goals.. I was always taught to do my best to WIN… .. they have Not.. all they care about is ” competing”.. They are a ticket selling operation.. Home runs put butts in the seats.. but pitching win championships… and they are a total wiff in that department… they have had their 3 strikes and then some..
They WON two division titles. That’s not just being competitive. They WON over 100 games in 2019 – that isn’t just being competitive. Only one team a year wins the WS – if that is your benchmark there aren’t many winners out there.
18 is an important number.. number of consecutive post season losses.. a record the twins Hold.. which is the tops in the 3 major Sports.. a record for futility.. as for ” competing”… that is their word.. that is their term.. that is what they claim they want to do…. 307 Home runs didn’t win them a single post season game.. because they could care less about winning them.. they didn’t have the pitching and they don’t have the pitching to be championship caliber.. and that is why the Dynamic Duo was hired.. to build the pitching.. and they have failed miserably… The Twins Have no top starting pitching.. after 5 years they still don’t have enough pitching to win a central division championship..
Yes, “WS” is my benchmark. What’s yours? Winning a division and never having any hope of doing anything else? We won’t be winning the division anytime soon, either. Other teams fixed their issues like the Twins should have, but didn’t. Crown the Sox, they deserve it, right now…
People forget they won with mostly Terry Ryan’s hand. Drafts and trades – you know the good Terry Ryan. Then these clowns go out and sign terry ryan type free agents last off season – the bad Terry Ryan. Pressly, May, Rodgers & Duffy would have totally got it done. No reason not to have that as a pen. Pretty obvious. Analytics?geez. Falvey a pitching specialist? They have way more money than Ryan ever did too.
…”winning two division titles”? They fell into 2019, and 2020 was a COVID reduced season where if a team git hot, there was no second half for anyone to catch up. And others ‘opted out’….
This front office holds and waits until it is too late to move anyone. Happened in 2017 & 2018 when they should have moved several pieces but they kept holding out until every team looking for those piece, filled them elsewhere. We sit on our hands and we over value players like Buxton who cannot get onto a field to show, if in fact, he is who they believe he is. He is a very good AAA ballplayer while completing his rehab assignments; he’s a mad-man! Too bad that does NOTHING for the Twins.
Buxton turned down an extension offer, fine he needs to go so we can get something of worth back for him before other teams find out he is broken and will never play for them. Use the money they wanted to sign him with and make Berrios an offer he can’t refuse… you know, they guy who IS playing for the Twins and doesn’t miss time.
We dealt Cruz and got back some ‘talent’, plus I believe we will go after him again in the offseason. That would be amazing! He is a true talent and great person! True leader. Let’s do something to get him a ring with Minnesota!
Look where they came from. Texas was their blueprint.
Falvey isn’t from the Rangers. He is from Cleveland organization.
What about Berrios? Dodgers should get him – give up Ruiz
You’re kidding, right…
Another prospect lover. Berrios is a two time all star, 27, never injured, cheap and having a great year. What the f*** do you think he’ll go for, scraps? Some of the trade offers I’ve seen are hilarious. He is far and away the best available arm on the market. Not even close.
Can see the Mets going after both Simmons and Pineda for a marginal prospect
I would think someone would call about Maeda. Strong track record, was awful early this season but doing better. Can’t imagine the cost is much other than eating some salary. That whole Twins team right now is a mess.
Maeda is controllable and an affordable contract. The Twins aren’t going to dump him for nothing.
Do some homework before commenting. Maeda is under team control, and cheap, for several years. He just came off a season where he almost won the Cy Young, this coming after the previous excellent season. To get him will cost alot. And he isn’t available anyway.
Wish Mets had prospect capital to get Buxton and Berrios. Berrios would replace Stroman next year. DH gets put in 2022 and you have OF of Nimmo, Buxton, and Conforto.
Think the Brewers should trade for Sano
If this is the case, the dODGERS need more pitching…:
latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2021-07-25/trevor…
Anthony Rendon did say he thought the dODGER culture was questionable.
Stay away Dodgers..please. There are far better options. This is more of a Giants type of pitcher.
Dodgers need a starting pitcher today not in the future so Duffy probably doesn’t fit the profile. Would be funny if they somehow agreed to get Maeda back. They would probably want him out of the pen though and not starting but worse options out there. My guess is that they’ll want a starter and another bullpen arm, possibly a right handed bench bat that can hopefully play multiple positions. We’ll see what their appetite is regarding trading prospects. If not high I assume they’ll get fringe players that can barely help them. If so, they must feel confident that they can track down the Giants and hold off the Padres with what they have as long as everyone returns healthy.