The Dodgers announced that left-hander Bryan Hudson has been designated for assignment. The move opens up roster space for Yoshinobu Yamamoto, whose 12-year, $325MM deal with Los Angeles was made official this afternoon.
Hudson made his Major League debut this season, appearing in six games for L.A. and posting a 7.27 ERA over 8 2/3 innings of relief work. It was a big milestone in Hudson’s eight-year pro career, which began when he was a third-round pick for the Cubs in the 2015 draft. The 6’8″ Hudson pitched in Chicago’s organization until last winter, when he joined the Dodgers on a minor league contract.
The 26-year-old is a grounder specialist, regularly posting groundball rates north of 50% during his time in the minors. However, Hudson’s groundball rates have dropped to around 46.5% at the Triple-A level over the last two seasons, as he has added a lot more strikeout ability to his arsenal. After posting mostly uninspiring strikeout totals for much of his career, Hudson jumped to a 28.4% strikeout rate with Chicago’s Triple-A club in 2022, and then an even more impressive 35.7K% in 55 2/3 frame with Triple-A Oklahoma City last season.
While his 10.92% career walk rate indicates some wildness in Hudson’s game, his ability to rather drastically increase his ability to miss bats is a positive development, particularly since he is still able to generate grounders at an above-average rate. This skillset isn’t unlikely to go unnoticed on the waiver wire, so there’s a decent chance a bullpen-needy makes a claim on Hudson while he is in DFA limbo.
Pick him up Padres.
Why, Is he a short stop?
No, he’s 6 foot 8 inches.
Too expensive for the broke padres.
no the Red Sox want him
I agree, I would sign him
Gotta make room for all the studs they brought in. Im no Dodgers fan but gotta say wow
10 cents owed up front, $324,999,999.90 deferred.
He wasn’t signed genius he was dfa’d
They thought DFA meant Deferred for Always.
It’s deferred fund always. Its new.
No, deferred far into the future, or De’Far’d
This is the sort of analysis I come to this site for.
Yamamoto had zero deferred
See ya in Oakland Mr Hudson
I think they might finally be full of random cast off pitchers by now…
Did it feel good to get the first deferment comment? It made zero $ in this context but you got it. Congrats.
There is relevance to the context and you will see it later since the relevance has been deferred.
I think you have to come back in 2040 to get the relevance revealed – LOL!
2050, if you’re referring to Yamato.
The battleship?
Wasn’t it a carrier?
Yeah
Battleship, about as big as a carrier
Brew you are correct although per Wikipedia it had 2 catapults and carried aircraft. Since it had the largest guns ever installed on a Battleship you get the prize though.
I think it’s good for the game to have a team like LA that many will dislike for their finances. These teams are doing nothing wrong (I do think the Ohtani deal is “wrong” but legal) but it is unfair from other points of view that they (largely) only spend so much money because of their market revenue, and that’s why a random, say Royals fan for instance, will be upset. It’s all understandable. Even when the owner is just willing to spend more they only have an owner like that because of the vast interest in owning the team and the lack of struggle for revenue, even the average fans standard of living. Nothing wrong with any of this tho and it’s just how economics is.
Especially if they don’t get to the series.
They won’t. Ohtani won’t be his 2023 self and Yam isn’t going to show up as an ace.
It’s like giving the Dodgers lead-filled bats and making the Royals play with nerf bats and making it legal. Good for the game
Well imo 2020 was bogus to a degree and the royals have won pretty recently so it makes it that much cooler when they do. What other options are there but a salary cap? That’s not good for the sport.
I’d be for a salary cap and a salary floor, or stiffer penalties to those who spend/don’t spend outside the realm. I also know this is very complicated given the owners call the shots..
I’m for it in a way but I don’t know if practically speaking it would work as intended and I’d be afraid it would suppress player salaries mainly. It would ensure better ownership I think. It could not suppress player salaries if the small market teams had to have a larger payroll and they worked in the CBA to keep adjusting it. I’m not entirely against that. Footnote-I know players make enough but it’s a matter of the owners making too much in relation to those players.
I have a problem with current penalties for barely going over (especially after several years).The tax isn’t a huge deal to me but, for instance, why should the Braves be penalized so much for continuing to barely go over? Their payroll isn’t even outrageous in the sense that the money is spread around and they aren’t signing all the FAs. They have done nothing to be penalized imo. More teams should do what they are doing. We shouldn’t penalize that.
Hurry up Jays claim this guy before the Basement team does.
He’s got Mets written all over him.
Does Bryant’s wife get a porche too for giving up his spot?
Who is Bryant? His name is Bryan Hudson.
He will be signed by the yankees. 6ft8 lefty reliever with a history of missing bats and producing ground balls…
does he happen to have a decent amount of movement on his fastball? “hoppy fastball” and 2 options to boot would make his a perfect candidate for Elias and the Orioles if he isn’t picked up by a team with worse record than them in 2023.
6’8″, high ground ball lefty with just 17 innings pitched in the bigs. surely he’s going to be claimed soon.
Pick him up red legs
C’mon Getz, the Southsiders need another LHP option before we get the Sammy Peralta…
Farhan’s next earth shattering pickup
He’ll probably clear and be back in LA beings Dodgers non-roster signees and outrighted players find their way back to the big club somehow anyway
Surprised the Dodgers couldn’t move him for something up front.. Maybe they still will. Dodgers have only three left handers for the bullpen on the 40-man – Ferguson, Vesia, and Yarbrough (and Yarbrough is kind of a hybrid starter/long reliever.) Guessing Rooney will get a shot and/or someone else they bring up – or someone they can bring in – once they can put May and Gonsolin on the 60-day. Little surprised they kept Varland over Hudson. – just because Garland is another righty. But clearly, they like Varland’s talent over Hudson’s. And maybe Garland gets dropped too, depending upon other moves – signings, trades, etc. He’d be next up to go if a trade does not open up any necessary spots.
If Dustin May ends up as anything but a closer, I will be disappointed. Filthy stuff, triple digits, hair flying, elbows and legs going every which way. And he’d only have to go 15-20 pitches an outing instead of 80-90 with the same effort.
That does seem like the perfect landing spot for him. Or, high leverage reliever at worst.
Agreed. Closer written all over him!
Yes, makes a ton of sense in the abstract. BUT sometimes being a reliever is harder on the elbow than being a starter. At least that’s what some pitchers say. So, I guess a lot will depend on May’s ability to rebound quickly from shorter sprints. What I do know is that he is FILTHY and he was the guy I’ve always been most high on in the Dodgers system – deGrom in the making. Fortunately, in more ways than one!
Unfortunately. I meant. By the way moderators, how come you can edit a post on desktop but not in the app?!
I’ve been predicting May potentially ending up as a closer since he first came up and before the elbow problems. The question for him has always been whether he can command three pitches. A closer can get by with two. A starter not so much.
He’s not a high K guy which has always surprised me. decent W/9 but not great, but really good at getting weak contact with the lateral movement on his 4 seamer.
Only three? Thats nearly half the pen!
Hudson was a long shot to make active roster until he gets that BB rate down. Dodgers may need to go outside of 40 man roster if they want to upgrade the 2-3 LHP bullpen spots. Ferguson the best option but he can go up and down over the course of a season. Vesia had a bad season and has lost some confidence. I’d put a LHP reliever as the third highest priority now behind a backend SP and RH OF bat. Although the Dodgers may go with what they have now for LHP bullpen and upgrade at deadline if necessary. Same for RH OF bat. They could go lefty heavy with Busch on the bench and upgrade at deadline if necessary.
How many Worke Serie Rings have the Padres deferred?
Worke Serie Rings
What’s a worke, is that how you spell?
Lighten up, it’s autocorrect. He meant to type Wookiee Season.
“i was on a winning team once. then yamamoto took my spot. im good with that. totally. so….good….the help with this life”
hell*
Well, there goes any shot the Dodgers had at a championship.
hahahah
Everybody’s joking about who’s gonna pick this dude up knowing everyone is secretly hoping it’s their team lol.
Only if he is up for a deferred contract.
Blue Jays are interested
He’s the perfect Mets pickup.
Twins need pitchers….
Come on Mo. Give him a one year contract.
It’s not looking great for Wander Franco. I would think the DR authorities would be moving a little more discreetly if they planned on letting him buy them off. But I have seen the story in multiple news sites.
Wonder what type of due diligence these teams do before committing mega millions to players.
I think the guys handing out the contracts have a hard time putting themselves in the heads of the guys they give the contracts to. It could be socio-economic, or generational, or whatever.
I think the teams believe they perform adequate due diligence. But it’s bad science. They start out with a conclusion and look for evidence to prove it.
As a native of Alton, Illinois, I wouldn’t be surprised if he wound up pitching for the Cardinals, the team he grew up watching.
The Dodgers need to find an upgrade for Austin Barnes. Shouldn’t be too hard to find.
Dodgers “need” (imho) in this order:
1. LH starting pitcher (Luzardo, Paxton, Ryu, etc)
2. RH OF (Duvall, Kike, Hernandez)
3. One more high leverage bullpen piece
Why that order? I think that order is the hardest/most expensive to get once the season starts.
Adam Duvall, yes please.
They really could use Lou Gehrig Willie Mays Jimmie Foxx Tom Seaver Pedro Martinez
They don’t need to upgrade Barnes. It’s not like they have a #3 that can easily slide into the #2 role. Feduccia hasn’t played a single MLB game. His minor league career numbers are worse than Barnes’ minor league career numbers in most categories including OPS, throwing out runners and passed balls. So why eat $3.5mm when no one else is ready to assume that role including Cartaya, Rushing or Feduccia?
Dodgers are not going to miss the playoffs because Barnes is the backup catcher, as bad as he is. And in the playoffs he’s not going to play barring injuries or a blowout.
Lastly there are other positions that are higher priority including another backend SP, another OF bat, and upgrading a LH reliever. These will move the needle more for season and a deeper playoff run.
Yeah it was a terrible decision to extend him. But Dodgers are just stuck keeping him for one more season. He has no trade value.
i’m afraid that as a waiver claim, it’s not his decision since he hasn’t earned his FA status yet. he could possibly ask the Dodgers to construct a trade with a team of his preference but there’s no guarantee that they will agree to that.
To young, not injured enough for trashman
Somewhere, Farhan Zaidi is locking himself in a room when he read “grounder specialist”.
Twins should take a flier on him and invite him to Spring training, we need all the arms we can get:)
All of your wishes for your team to pick him up are for none if they trade him in their 7 day window
Don you really think that he will go for nothing?