TODAY: Trivino cleared waivers and he has been released, as per his MLB.com profile page.
JULY 21: The Dodgers designated veteran reliever Lou Trivino for assignment this evening. That creates an active roster spot for Edgardo Henriquez, who was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City. The team’s 40-man roster count drops to 38.
Trivino signed a minor league contract in the second week of May. The Dodgers called him up a week later. He spent around two months on the roster and pitched fairly well overall, working to a 3.76 ERA through 26 1/3 innings. That came with a well below-average 15.7% strikeout rate, though he showed good control and did well at avoiding hard contact.
The Dodgers leaned heavily on the 33-year-old righty during last weekend’s sweep at the hands of the Brewers. Trivino pitched on three straight days and didn’t have his sharpest stuff in any of them. He allowed two hits and a walk while only retiring two batters on Friday. Joey Ortiz took him deep on Saturday. The Dodgers nevertheless called on him again yesterday. He gave up consecutive hits to Eric Haase and Jackson Chourio, struck out William Contreras, then walked Andrew Vaughn. That’ll very likely be his final work as a Dodger.
Los Angeles has five days to try to trade Trivino. It’s likelier that he’ll decline an outright assignment or simply be released this week. Trivino also had a brief run with the Giants earlier in the year. He has a combined 4.42 ERA across 38 2/3 frames in his first year back from consecutive seasons lost to elbow and shoulder injuries.
Brian Cashman’s deadline Christmas present a little early this year.
Cashman is already texting his agent!
I’d be ok with bringing him back.
No question that Cashman has called the Dodgers about him. I believe he’s only making the minimum so no need to wait for him to clear waivers. Send cash considerations and have him come back to the Bronx.
Yes! The Dodgers can definitely use the cash considerations for future transactions.
Good looking out.
@99 On a minor league deal only.
@YBC- he can definitely pitcher here, he’s proven that. Definitely think it’s worth it to give it a look.
Yes another deferred contract, we definitely get it.
@99 He’s pitched a grand total of 22 IP with the Yankees.
Yup. Dodgers deferred the Trivino contract to an entirely different team. Genius.
It’s all part of the Master Deferral Plan
Can’t be worse than what they’re running out there now. I say give him a shot.
Cashman promises to sign Lou on the condition he releases him the same day!
@Yankee Clipper- He better not. Loaisiga is this year’s Trevino for Cashman. They need to decline next year’s option.
Make that “Trivino” not “Trevino”
Lee smiles.
Am I the only one, that thinks of the Incredible Hulk, when they hear the name Lou Trivino
Golf for me.
I will now.
Given his name was Ferrigno, then no.
Hey, he’s Italian. To some, that’s all that matters.
Seems like a swap of bad for worse.
How did Fedde get in this trade?
Whoaaaaa!!!
Let go one dumpster fire for another
The first part of the sentence was great until…
Not really his fault the Brewers swept the season series!
Place holder until Treinen is activated.
Nice on the Dodgers. They pitch the guy 3 straight days with no rest, then DFA him.
They’re a classy organization
At least they didn’t let him go 111 pitches!
All part of the game. When you’re DFA’d and just fighting to stay in the show you know what the role means. Eat innings, and just maybe you perform well or catch another team’s attention. I’m sure the Dodgers give these guys the heads up. Good chance you may be DFA’d some point in the season and we’re going to use you heavy innings to preserve the pen. Don’t want that role? We’ll find someone else.
Born to be a mop-up man. I’m sure he complains a lot less about how he is used in games than some fans do.
Guggenheim…Walter. Kasten. Friedman.
If you watched any of the games against Milwaukee this weekend, it’s hard not to conclude that Doc’s use of Trivino was managerial malpractice. As Anthony points out in his report, this was every bit the equivalent of the physical and mental errors committed by Pages!
Roberts already knew he was going to dump him today that’s why he pitched him 3 days in a row. He just needed a warm body to eat some innings.
Love these pronouncements of certainty without a shred of actual knowledge.
Respectfully, I disagree. Klein, Yates, Banda were all rested and were excellent yesterday. Klein pitched 2 innings and was very strong, AFTER Trivino imploded. Yates had not pitched the day before and he was very sharp. Sorry, Doc’s use of Trivino yesterday was inexcusable.
Trivino was a place-holder being replaced by a place-holder. Doing the mercenary work he was paid for….
“Roberts already knew”…So, you’re saying that Dave Roberts is both psychic and also tells his front office who to release or cut?
Maybe we should all be asking Dave Roberts for stock tips or who else is getting released or signed two days or two weeks from now?
Friedman to Doc today: “Dave, I don’t know what you were thinking running Trivino out there three straight days, but we’re fixing it. He’s not gonna be an option for you moving forward.”!
MLB fan I guess you could be right Roberts never talks to his GM and they don’t discuss personnel or plans.
You are acting as though it’s impossible that Roberts knew about impending plans. Are you mentally challenged?
The Brewers will pick him up and turn him into an all-star reliever
Hit it and quit it….
There is always Senior Golf to fall back on
Come on Trashman. You know you can’t resist signing Lou to make an appearance or two before DFA’ing him again!!!
I can see it now the yankees big moves will be lou Trivino for the bullpen. For Set up or spot starter jp Sears and for a starter will be severino. For a bat they will bring back IKF. Who isn’t having a bad year but it’s not going to make a big difference again Ace pitching
Oof another ugly fifth inning for the Yankees. Sorry had to reference another 5th inning Yankees fans…
Waiting for Boone to make up more excuses for the fielding mistakes by blaming the artificial turf at that domed dump
He no likey Happy at the putt putt when Happy go ballistic on clown
I see what you did there
Dodger fans are getting quiet except for the ones who are quite defensive. What happened to all that early season bravado? You know, the talk that the Dodgers may have assembled the “Greatest Team Ever” talk. I wonder how many Japanese pitchers will think twice about signing up with the Arm Shredder Factory. Or will they still come but will want a LOT more money? For all the money spent, OR “Money can’t buy health”. One more thing. Betts got OLD, like in a year. Yikes!
Still smarting from last October? Maybe time to move on with your hatred and jealousy. Or channel your energy into catching the Blue Jays.
Does your act include anything besides innuendo and speculation?
Ahhh. A healthy dose of passive aggression against the LAD boogeymen.
YOU NEED ANOTHER HOBBY NOW.
How did I miss this comment for almost a week?
As a lifetime dodgers fan I’ll say this. I thought those predicting 120 wins were silly. I was happy with almost every off-season move they made, although I wasn’t super familiar with Conforto, Scott, and Yates.
I did, and do, trust that they made and are making every effort to win the world series every year.
They they have a lot of injuries in the pitching speaks to their philosophy of getting as many high upside pitchers on the team, even with injury history. Knowing injuries happen, they tried to set themselves up not to be forced into deadline trades.
That hasn’t worked out, but they did win the world series against the Yankees with 2 starters and bullpen games. So the high upside part of the equation seems to be a good one.
If the Yankees and dodgers get back to the WS again this year, we might beat you using 3 pitchers and no bullpen games this time.
BTW, your best player has a throwing arm elbow injury. And a non pitcher at that.
The Braves should trade for him. They’ll be trading most of their bullpen away soon.
Luis Garcia is pitching well for the Nationals. Dodgers can leave a lot of meat on the bone if any teams need to scrounge.
Trivino had an eagle on a par 5
The Dodgers didn’t use him back-to-back at all until a few times in June, then all of the sudden, three days in a row twice in two weeks. He was pitching well up until the end of that stretch. Whoever gets him will have a great arm as long as they don’t abuse it like the Dodgers started to do this month.
His ERA was over 6 in April and over 4 for the majority of the season.
Great arm lol.
Monday or Tuesday before dumpster diving Scott Harris signs him for Detroit
Dodgers doing Happys bidding in purging meanies. Trivino out, will Shooter McGavin be next?
There you go Stearns, go dumpster diving
Why do I have the feeling that this has a Chaim Breslow vibe all over it?