The Dodgers announced Monday that they’ve claimed catcher Anthony Bemboom off waivers from the Angels and right-hander Conner Greene off waivers from the Orioles. In order to open space on the 40-man roster, Los Angeles transferred left-handers Danny Duffy and Clayton Kershaw to the 60-day injured list. The “60-day” minimum on those IL stints for Duffy and Kershaw begin with their initial placement on the IL — July 20 for Duffy and July 7 for Kershaw. Duffy would be eligible to return on Sept. 18 and Kershaw on Sept. 5.
Bemboom, 31, has batted .213/.302/.347 in 88 plate appearances with the Angels over the past two seasons. He’s also logged some very brief big league time with the Rays. While Bemboom hasn’t hit much in the Majors through a small sample’s worth of career games, he’s a .256/.349/.410 hitter in parts of five Triple-A seasons. He also boasts an excellent 35 percent caught-stealing rate behind the dish and has been credited with solid framing marks at Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs and Statcast.
The Angels designated Bemboom for assignment over the weekend when claiming fellow catcher Chad Wallach off waivers from the Marlins. Bemboom will now head to the Dodgers and provide some experienced depth for a club that just traded away top catching prospect Keibert Ruiz in the Max Scherzer/Trea Turner blockbuster.
Greene, 26, made his Major League debut with the Orioles this season but was hit hard in 3 2/3 innings. The former Blue Jays, Royals and Cardinals minor leaguer surrendered six runs on seven hits and a walk with five strikeouts in his short time with the O’s and has had a similarly rough go of it in Triple-A this year (7.09 ERA in 20 2/3 frames).
That said, Greene averaged nearly 96 mph with his heater with the Orioles and posted strong swinging-strike and opponents’ chase rates. Greene was a prospect of note for several years, drawing 70 grades on his heater and 55s and 60s on his changeup (on the 20-80 scale). He’s had control problems throughout his minor league tenure (11.2 percent walk rate), but the Dodgers are ostensibly intrigued by his raw stuff and may have their own ideas about how to maximize his potential. Greene can be optioned for the rest of the season but will be out of minor league options in 2022.
The news of Kershaw moving to the 60-day IL shouldn’t be a huge surprise after manager Dave Roberts recently said he expected his left-hander to be out until September. Duffy’s move to the 60-day IL, however, is a bit more surprising. Royals general manager Dayton Moore said not long before trading Duffy to the Dodgers that he expected the southpaw to return sometime in mid-August. The Dodgers were of course able to perform their own assessment of Duffy’s medicals and were aware of the risk of a lengthier absence, but they were still probably hoping to get Duffy back on the mound sooner than this. If the remainder of his rehab from a flexor strain goes well, Duffy can still be an option for the season’s final few weeks and a bullpen candidate in the postseason.
Looks like that opens up a door for the Rockies or Diamondbacks to make a run.
Lmao
Even with 47 thumbsup(s?) this is still an underrated comment
Tomorrow, Quackenbush gets DFA for Knebel
So much for the Dodgers being rated higher than the first place, best record in MLB, San Francisco Giants.
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The Dodgers will always be rated higher than the Gnats! Always!
As a Giants fan. The national guys will always view the Dodgers higher even when the Giants win the World Series. They will make an excuse the Dodgers were injured or the Giants got hot as the right time. Then next year the preseason rankings will put Giants around 15-16. Go Giants!
They aren’t ranked that high because their victories are hollow and won’t even lead to a deep postseason run. Trust me, you won’t be talking about how good the Giants are when they’re eliminated on October 6.
Watch out. They are going to tell you how somehow being a .500 team recently while trailing into the 9th is sustainable
Paul it’s pretty simple. The Dodgers = RATINGS!!!!!!. No one outside of SF gives a s&&t about the Giants.
Said the fan to the second place team!
@FletcherFan69 I’ve heard this tune before… in 2010. And 2012. And 2014….
Let’s be real, most years, no one in SF cares about the giants
Nobody off the west coast gives a crap about the Dodgers either. There are more Red Sox and Cubs fans in LA than Dodgers fans in Boston or Chicago. And in NY the only Dodgers fans are 80 year olds with a dodger blue cap with a “B” on it. Having lived in all three places I can tell you those are facts
Dodgers are 8-8 against the Giants and 3-7 against the Padres. A deep postseason run isn’t guaranteed for them either
Spoiler. good teams tend to play about 500 ball against each other. It’s basic statistics
Relatively evenly matched, they’re likely to split the meetings more or less. That’s exactly why LA is pushing so hard to win the division instead of being content with WC1. Would you rather have a 5 game 50/50 series, or a 1 game 50/50 “series”?
Gnats aren’t even drawing in Frisco. They’ve had pathetic crowds recently of around 30,000.
You are an imaginary character lying thru your false teeth. Dodgers currently have a bigger national following than the Red Sox or Cubs. Dodger fans often number 1/3 to 1/2 of the crowd in road games. The games in Frisco are predominantly blue, not Frisco’s Halloween colors, and routinely drown out Giant cheers. Dodger fans have been showing up big at Wrigley. Watch LA @ NY this coming weekend, you’ll hear and see a ton of pro-LA noise and Dodger blue in the park. You otoh are either braindead or lying. I travel the world, and ONLY Yankee caps outnumber Dodger caps in Europe and South America, you lying Trumper.
Dodger fans travel better than even Cub and Red Sox fans. I’ve personally been to Dodger games in over a dozen MLB parks and i am joined by many thousands at thise games in Dodger blue. Typical lying Gnatsie. LA caps come close to the number of Yankee caps in Europe and South America. Dodgers perennially outdraw everybody by a light year at home AND often drown out home fans across the country on the road. Eat it, Gnatsie.
Very perceptive of you Paul! I believe one of the biggest differences this year has been coaching. Those so-called “Gnats” have the largest coaching staff in baseball including 3 hitting coaches! You can bet that’s being noticed by other less successful clubs!
I’m curious… How many caps does a team need to sell to make themselves a contender?
They were in NY as well.
Why? Kershaw hasn’t played a game in a month.
Dumpster divin’ Dodgers!
Bemboom is a reasonable back up to the back up catcher.
Which he will be in LA.
So the Dodgers and Angels essentially traded third string catchers.
With Kershaw’s career workload and this being the sixth straight year he’s failed to make 30 starts, I wonder if the Dodgers let him walk after this year. I know he’s a franchise icon but they already have a huge payroll and a lot of other big players hitting free agency in the coming years
Yes, his name recognition far exceeds his performance now
Kershaw is still very good it’s just a matter of staying healthy. I just think it would be smarter for the Dodgers to re sign Scherzer on a short term deal and let Kershaw walk
Unless & hopefully, Kershaw is willing to take a home team discount to remain with a competitive team.
He had the 6th best FIP in the NL when he got hurt
He’s been at high 20s starts most years. So he’s missed 3-5 starts. Who cares if he performs in October?
People should care that he doesn’t perform well in October.
He’ll probably sign with Texas and play at home after this season. Kershaw and his wife are much more interested and engaged in all the church stuff and traveling to other countries than he is in staying healthy. After the amount of money he’s earned so far and having a World Series ring, I think he might scale it back moving forward. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Clemens arrangement where he could play half the season, and do all the religious stuff the rest of the year.
If he pitches half a season wouldn’t tou think it would be with the dodgers. A real contender. Half a season could seem long if you’re loosing like the rangers.
Doesn’t already only pitch half seasons with the Dodgers?
The “religious stuff” clause. Isn’t that one of the commandments? Thou shalt not forsake thy religious stuff. That might be #11.
Religious stuff = acts of benevolence
I still think he wants to win a real World Series ring. Not that 1/3 sized mini ring he got last season.
Yeah I mean the Dodgers clearly had to play less games under more favorable circumstances than every other team in baseball. They definitely didn’t deserve to win anything.
^^^thank you
Really, queer? What a dumb thing to say.
Anyone with a brain understands last year was one of the hardest won titles in the last decade. Only trolls refuse to acknowledge it
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Zero chance. If Kershaw believes he can still compete he will want to do it on a competitor and he will do it with a contract laden with performance bonuses. Anyone who says otherwise just doesn’t know the player, at all.
If you have a big enough ego, you believe you can move to any team and be the difference maker! Just read quotes from MadBum.
Yeah, Kershaw who is in a pennant race every season will go play for a team who is eliminated by early July
Right, so he can put up his feet and relax, because that’s so Clayton Kershaw. Seems like only fans in this time zone have any idea about Kershaw and his makeup.
Why would he want to go from 9 straight playoff appearances to a team that likely won’t compete before he retires again?
…but his buddy Stafford just got to LA.
I doubt they do based on 30 starts anyway. That just isn’t as much of an expectation anymore, these days. Not enough pitchers hit that mark anymore for it to be a reasonable expectation.
I think it’s a matter of paying $30+ million for a guy who isn’t a workhorse anymore. That money could be better spent elsewhere especially with the Dodgers pitching depth
If Kershaw wants to re-sign with the Dodgers, he’ll have to accept a major pay cut. Base salary in the $15M range with some innings incentives that could push it to $20M+. The days of Kershaw making $30M+ per year are gone, even if he signs with a new team in FA. Scherzer, meanwhile, will still command a $25M-$30M AAV even though he’s older than Kershaw. I’d expect him to sign a Verlander type of extension with LA provided that they are able to dump enough salaries to afford him.
There are major roster changes coming to the Dodgers this offseason, so Friedman loaded up at the trade deadline and is doing all he can to bring another WS trophy to LA this season. I’m not sure LA will be able to get below the CBT threshold next year (if it even exists after the CBA talks) but they will be looking to cut their total payroll spend by $30-$40M for sure. Their fingers are crossed that they’ll be able to void Bauer’s contract this offseason. If they can do that, it will be a huge help with getting Scherzer to sign a FA deal with them. The Giants will be waiting with an open checkbook to sign some of LA’s better castoffs too. It will make their rivalry even more heated if 2-3 current Dodgers players end up in SF next season. Let’s hope there is no strike or lockout this offseason as 2022 is already looking to be one of the most fascinating free agent and trade markets that we’ve seen in a long time!
Kershaw will sign a substantially performance-based contract. We know that because it’s what he has now. The only reason he might not sign back with the Dodgers is if he decides he can no longer compete, which means early retirement. Unless this injury is worse than what we are hearing, he’ll be back, and still in blue.
“ There are major roster changes coming to the Dodgers this offseason, so Friedman loaded up at the trade deadline and is doing all he can to bring another WS trophy to LA this season. I’m not sure LA will be able to get below the CBT threshold next year (if it even exists after the CBA talks) but they will be looking to cut their total payroll spend by $30-$40M for sure”
Lmfao. Wishful thinking? There’s no reason to think LA went 50m over the limit to expect to drop below it in one season. They likely plan to pay the CBT for the next 2-3 seasons. And they’ve won 3 of the last 4 pennants. Why TF would they curb their spending now, in the middle of their best window in probably 25 years maybe more?
I would give Kershaw 2 years @ 10 million a year. If he wants to pitch close to home he can go to Texas and play for a horrible team.
Wow you guys are idiots it’s astounding. He had the 6th best FIP in the league when he was shut down. He’s not taking a 67% cut
Least 25M a year+ Incentives, 3 years is my guess. Anything less you’re dreaming to think it’s reasonable
They aren’t giving him $25 mil a year. They will give Kershaw the same kind of deal they gave Turner and if Kersh doesn’t want it then thanks for the memories and enjoy playing in Texas. Remember you still have to sign Buehler, Bellinger, Seager, Both Turners after 2022 so you can’t have everyone making $30 MIL.
Turner #1 will be 38 at contract end. Planning for him to make big money on a next deal seems like folly
Turner 2 and Seager are likely intertwined. One stays and one goes imo, unless Lux is traded in another big deal to fill a hole elsewhere
Buehler has 4 years till he’s a FA. Cody 3. Kershaw isn’t getting more than a 2-3 year deal. What’s the worry?
2017 is the last time he finished top 10 in FIP. The Dodgers have paid plenty for what he used to be. He isn’t that anymore. He can’t deliver a full season. Only fools are going to pay $25M for that. But… it only takes one team.
Regarding superstar pitchers on the mend, is there anything new to report on deGrom? Last I heard, he has elbow inflammation with no time-line for return. Is he throwing on flat ground… long toss… simulated games, etc?
DeGrom hit another setback and is completely shut down for another 8 days. He’s due to get a second MRI then to see if his forearm inflammation has subsided or not. If it has, he’ll need to build back up and probably pitch a rehab game or two, so it certainly feels like he’s out for the majority of August, and maybe longer than that if the results of the next MRI are not encouraging. Right now, it feels like the Mets won’t be playing in October. Too many games lost to the IL and too many poor performances by healthy players they were counting on to be major contributors.
should have gotten a 4th dose of the vaccine
Makes your bones strong like superman–makes you immune to any muscle pull, broken bone, or ligament issues. I hear one man even survived a knife wound due to the vaccine…
Again, thoughts and prayers
As the legend goes, the 9th dose is suppose to unlock the full potential of the brain allowing people to fly, control things with their minds, read other people’s minds, and conjure fire. Or so the legend says.
Ya but I hear it makes you sterile. And at 68 years old, that’s a major concern.
Would’ve been the preferred method over my vasectomy a few years back
i am getting 7th tomorrow so my wings are slowly coming in
LMAO!!
Says the guy that half his team is on the Covid list.
Isn’t that how Deadpool got his powers?
Basically the Dodgers and Angels traded minor league catchers. Chad Wallach for Anthony Bemboom.
I think LAD only acquired Duffy to keep him away from SF.
Imagine how terrifying SF’s IL would be with Duffy. Game over NL West.
There’s a lot of head to head SF and SD games in September. That’s why
So Dodgers now have emergency backup catchers Bemboom, Tony Wolters, and Tim Federowicz at Triple-A.
Duffy was acquired for the final 14 games? I’m not sure I understand the acquisition.
It’s all about making sure we have enough bullpen guys in the playoffs.
Assuming you make the playoffs! HA. Could easily get knocked out in the one-game play-in to the Reds 🙂
SD & SF play 10 more times. The division is far from over.
And even if SD is too far behind the Giants to catch them, they will play those games hard in competition for WC spot. Which could help the Dodgers (though SD plays them 7 times as well)
Giantssphan. When. you guys stop playing Arizona and Colorado every other game then you can talk. The Giants have only managed a 4 game lead over a Dodger team that has been injured and beat up all year long. 4 games can slip away pretty quick. Ask the Red Sox.
Yeah the Reds have been beating the juggernauts Pittsburgh and the Cubs the past week and a half.
DODGER, I agree that we have a nice schedule for the week ahead, and I also agree that 4 games with your team and the Friars chasing is nothing at this point in the season. I was just stoking the fire with my previous comment. That said, I imagine you can agree that in our last three series: Dodgers, Asteriks and the Crew, we went 6-3, taking each series 2-1, which is pretty darn solid no matter how you slice it.
It likely is for SD. Eight games back in the loss column is a huge deficit.
Very happy with where the Giants are at. Solid defense, great team chemistry and Mr. Belt raking the ball like he’s possessed. I was expecting Belt to be the weakest link when he came back from his injury, but glad to say I was wrong. That possibility now falls to Longoria. Biggest surprise of the season though is Wade Jr. It’s like Willie Mays suddenly appeared on the roster! His only weakness is left handers but even there he shows signs of improvement. Still beating the Dodgers in a playoff is a steep, steep mountain to climb! Kinda like having to fight a roster of Storm Troopers on a Death Star! There’s always another one prepared to come at you like Mad Max, Hamels or Duffy!
Not giving up much for Duffy. Could be useful in the playoffs. Problem right now is if the Dodgers have enough starting pitching to get them to first place and avoid wild card. No Kershaw, Bauer, Duffy going to hurt.
Also, no May or Gonsolin
That’s a fantastic rotation on the mend, or in court
Duffy’s potential to pitch down the stretch at the cost of a PTBNL…. What’s hard to understand?
Sounds great until the PTBNL turns out to be Yordan Alvarez.
For Duffy? LOL Kansas City will be lucky to a Rookie leaguer for Duffy. My guess is that the Dodgers will give KC some $$$$ instead of a player.
Alvarez was only a Dodger for 45 days. You have no idea what PTBNL turn out to be. Most don’t pan out but a few end up being terrible mistakes.
From espn: The Los Angeles Dodgers have acquired veteran left-hander Danny Duffy from the Kansas City Royals for a player to be named later, it was announced on Thursday.
There was no mention of money being an option when the dodgers acquired duffey. It will be a player going back to KC.
LOL
sdntabaseballguy? We do not need you to understand. Easy on you huh?
I’m a Dodger fan since Drysdale. I know the Dodgers better than most and the Duffy acquisition was probably a mistake.
SD have you seen the Dodger bullpen lately? They need all the help they can get.
Cole Hamels might beat Duffy to LA
His contract says he has to be promoted by Sep 2 or earlier, so he will.
While I understand what Friedman did at the deadline, it’s going to be a huge risk to award playoff spots to Duffy and/or Hamels if they are only able to pitch in 3-5 regular season games at the end of September out of the bullpen. While they are both proven veterans, it’s going to be tough to get a read on where they truly are, performance wise, if they only get a few games in prior to the post season. I wouldn’t be surprised to see one of them left off the roster for NLDS then re-evaluate their players for the NLCS if they make it that far. If they end up having to play the wild card game, neither of them will be on that roster. You just can’t afford to be evaluating players in the playoffs, especially in a one a done format.
I think their intention was to get help from them soon (while Kershaw and Bauer are out), not in the playoffs. And in the case of Duffy, that aint happening.
It looks quite possible that neither one of them will ever throw a pitch for the Dodgers.
That’s way too pessimistic. They didn’t sign Hamels to a major league deal to not use him.
They didn’t trade for Duffy to not use him, and that looks likely now, and at least he’d pitched within the last two years. Hamels was always the longer shot to contribute given his long layoff. So not pessimistic, just realistic.
Duffy was injured and September was always his time table. Nothing changed by putting him on the 60 day IL
Not right, and contradicted by what it says right here in this article. When the Dodgers completed the trade he was expected to be back by mid-August. Now at best he won’t be available until the last ten days of the season. Placing him on the 60-day is big change.
Depth versus necessity,man.
Nope, your wrong. From the get go, it had always been reported that Duffy would be unavailable until September…which I thought at the time was a stupid trade…and still do!
No, it wasn’t. First reported that he would possibly be back mid-to-late August, then September. This is the first we’ve heard of it being late September at the earliest. I’d go even money that he never suits up as a Dodger.
I wouldn’t worry about Andrew Friedman. He knows quite a bit more about this stuff than you do.
So even if neither of Duffy or Hamels make a contribution to the Dodgers they were still good moves?
For 1M and a likely instructional league PTBNL is absolutely worth it when your payroll is already 260M. Hamel’s salary is 00.384% of a 260M payroll. Duffy was very good before he got hurt as well
I think that’s a pretty small gamble
That’s not good. Dodgers could really use those guys and not the earlier they will have them middle to late September. Seems like that doesn’t give them a lot of time to shake the rust off and build up arm strength for the playoffs.
I thought you had to be on the active roster by Sept. 1st to be eligible to play in the postseason. Is that being waived because of COVID?
The rule is the 40 man roster or the 60 day IL and has always been. They are still eligible for the postseason.
It’s in organization(specifically the 40 man) not just active
Weren’t the Dodgas bankrupt recently and couldn’t pay their players?
No that was your sh&t team. That’s why the Cubs gutted their roster because they can afford any of their players.
Yea. McCourt couldn’t make a June payroll. That’s why he was forced to sell the team and Guggenheim took over.
Blame Jaimie McCourt, baseball
You are an imaginary character lying thru your false teeth. Dodgers currently have a bigger national following than the Red Sox or Cubs. Dodger fans often number 1/3 to 1/2 of the crowd in road games. The games in Frisco are predominantly blue, not Frisco’s Halloween colors, and routinely drown out Giant cheers. Dodger fans have been showing up big at Wrigley. Watch LA @ NY this coming weekend, you’ll hear and see a ton of pro-LA noise and Dodger blue in the park. You otoh are either braindead or lying. I travel the world, and ONLY Yankee caps outnumber Dodger caps in Europe and South America, you lying Trumper.
So we (Angels) traded Benboom for Wallach.
Benboom’s baseball reference page lists him as a catcher/pitcher. Surprised the angels didn’t keep him to pair with Ohtani. A battery where both guys are two way players!
Maybe the Dodgers will give Bemboom the same bat they gave Pujols. Still bothers me that AP was stealing money from the Angels, couldn’t hit his weight in a lineup with Trout ,Rendon & Ohtani…. but suddenly can hit .260 with the Dodgers? If he would have done that with the Angels, he’d still be there.