The Dodgers announced that they have claimed right-hander Nick Nastrini off waivers from the Marlins. The latter club designated him for assignment earlier this week. Righty Noah Davis has been designated for assignment as the corresponding move.
Nastrini, now 25, returns to his original organization. The Dodgers drafted him in the fourth round in 2021. After a few years in the minors, he was flipped to the White Sox as part of the 2023 deadline deal which brought Lance Lynn and Joe Kelly to Los Angeles.
Since that deal, it’s been a challenging time for Nastrini. He made his major league debut last year but posted a 7.07 earned run average in 35 2/3 innings. He also logged 85 innings at the Triple-A level with a 5.29 ERA. Here in 2025, he had a 7.51 ERA through 44 1/3 Triple-A innings when the Sox tried to run him through waivers. The Marlins swooped in with a claim but then bumped him off the roster after just one Triple-A outing.
The Dodgers have taken the chance to reacquire their former prospect. Prior to being traded away, he had tossed 204 1/3 minor league innings with a 3.83 ERA. He struck out 33% of batters faced but also gave out walks at an 11.4% pace. Previously, the Dodgers were developing him as a starter. The White Sox moved him to the bullpen as he struggled this year. Time will tell whether the Dodgers still view him as a viable rotation candidate or if they want to have him continue in a relief role. He can still be optioned for the rest of this year and one additional season.
Davis, 28, signed a minor league deal with the Red Sox in the offseason. He was traded to the Dodgers just before Opening Day, presumably because he had some kind of upward mobility clause in that deal. Since then, he has been shuttled between Triple-A and the majors. He has allowed 13 earned runs in his six big league innings. The Triple-A work has been much better, with a 3.94 ERA in 32 innings, despite pitching in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League. He has struck out 27.5% of batters faced at that level with a 10.9% walk rate and 48.1% ground ball rate.
He has now been bumped into DFA limbo, which can last as long as a week. The waiver process takes 48 hours, so the Dodgers could take as long as five days to explore trade talks. Davis has been previously outrighted in his career and would therefore have the right to elect free agency if he clears waivers this time. If a club does acquire him, he can be optioned for the rest of this year but will be out of options in 2026.
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Wasnt nastrini on the top 100 lists not too long ago?
Yeah, Nastrini is a bust unfortunately barring a miracle. He’s barely a prospect rn.
A bust for two teams that are at the bottom for a reason.
He had success in the Dodgers Minor league system and immediately was bad for the White Sox and Marlins? The biggest challenge the Dodgers face with him is undoing whatever the White Sox changed.
Cue the Dodgers injured pitcher jokes.
Nastrini didn’t touch an AAA game in the Marlins system.
No visit from Santa Claus here, this is “Nasty Nick!
Nastrini is an 80 grade name for a pitcher. Glad to have Nasty Nick back. He seemed to be on a good path when he was with the Dodgers before.
He’s baaack
Outhouse to the penthouse in one season. White Sox waived him earlier in the year. Marlins claimed him. Marlins waive and now he is a Dodger.
The Dodgers are REALLY manipulating the IL for bodies and pulling this one off. They have 11 players on the IL.
They DFA’d a guy to add Nastrini. Not sure how you interpret that as IL manipulation.
They aren’t playing shorthanded for fun. Who is faking an injury?
Dodgers just have a bunch of Lambo pitchers. High performance but always breaking down and sitting in the shop….
The Mets have 16, the White Sox have 15, the D-Backs have 14, and the Astros have 11 players on the IL. Why are the Dodgers the exception, Goose?
IL manipulation. Faking injuries. Whatever it is the Dodgers are doing, you gotta wonder if it’s catching up to them. They’re in the middle of a six game losing streak.
Nothing is catching up to them, stop being dramatic.
Is this Goose’s burner account?
It seems as if the Dodgers are playing with a double-secret 60 man roster, while everyone else gets only 40…
They are… if you don’t understand baseball and how it works and have a bias
@FreddieMG – Again, a gentle bit of humor. But to answer your attacking reply, it is easiest for me to handle it this way.
The Phils are my team (since the mid-60’s so I am not late to the game). We have some real built-in advantages as well as situational ones as compared to the unfortunate markets out there.
* We have a sizable market – not the biggest like yours but a good one.
* We have a terrific fanbase that lives and dies with the team and supports them well.
* We have the support of the city, a really nice stadium and a complex that continues to be built up around it.
* We have a terrific ownership group led by Middleton. He is one of the best owners in all of sports. He cares a lot; he wants to win; he spends beyond what is rational for a group that it their size and he is willing to take his lumps. And he truly understands and believes that he is a steward for the team and the city, rather than the typical narcissistic profit-hunters in some other markets; he inows that it is about the city and the fans and not just John Middleton. He hired a terrific front office leadership and let them rebuild the organization after the first mistaken hiring of Klentak and MacPhail.
So I am incredibly grateful and I know that we have it really good especially as compared to franchises in Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay; Miami, Oakland / whatever / Vegas and so on. They are the fans that should be kvetching about things, and of course they do.
The Dodgers? Well, some of the fans need to be a bit less sensitive to being the overdogs that are almost akin to nepo babies at this point. Basically, it is only the nature of the game itself that keeps the Dodgers from complete dominance in that baseball is a game that in a shorter series anything can happen as compared to most other sports.
It isn’t even just the payroll and financial might that goes towards the players. The ownership group wields that financial power that almost no other team possesses to spend more on front office, back office, player development and talent acquisition as well as marketing and such that most organizations cannot even sniff at. All supported by the largest market and an international scope of recognition that is buttressed mostly by the realities of Asian outreach via geography.
So just relax and enjoy and try not to be overly sensitive to a gentle gibe.
That’s a hell of a lot of words to say you are wrong but can’t admit it.
Remember, both the Dodgers and the Giants were essentially left to die on the vine by the NYC powers that were at that time. Teams really had no choice other than to relocate. NYC did not deserve a “replacement” team so shortly after the horrible calculus that preceded it. Giants and Dodgers rolled into virgin territory and have, pretty much, made the most of it…especially when you consider the Giants screwing over the Athletics (but that’s another story for another thread). If that leads/led to certain advantages…well…that happens in all realms of business. Great ownership, as we all know, doesn’t exactly hurt. I’ll speak for all baseball fans and say that the ownership in Pittsburgh-among others- (such a proud franchise reduced to clipping coupons and handing down clothes) is a mockery to the spirit of the game.
@freddie – Not knowing you I chose to treat you with the respect of a real answer in a courteous fashion. Now that I know that you are just a typical drooling keyboard toad, I will not bother again.
THAT was a real answer?
Traded three players for Lynn & Kelly and have now gotten two of them back (because they didn’t turn out to be worth anything).
If you want to stop the Dodgers roster shuffling, claim their players when they go on waivers. If the waived players are wastes of space, what the Dodgers do is no different from any other team.
Nastrini is obviously exactly what the Dodgers need right now.