The Dodgers selected the contract of left-handed pitcher Ronan Kopp. That’s their only move for Tuesday’s Rule 5 protection deadline. L.A. had two openings on the 40-man roster and didn’t need to make a corresponding move.
Kopp, 23, is a reliever who divided the 2025 season between Double-A Tulsa and Triple-A Oklahoma City. He turned in a combined 3.43 earned run average across 57 2/3 innings. Kopp fanned a massive 36% of opposing hitters but walked almost 17% of the opponents he faced. He has a mid-90s fastball and a cutter-slider that he used almost equally in Triple-A.
It’s plus stuff with obvious command woes from the left side. Neither left nor right-handed hitters could do much damage against Kopp, but they each reached base around a .350 clip by waiting out the free passes. While he’ll need to dial in the command, the Dodgers obviously feel he’s talented enough to factor in as bullpen depth in 2026. He joins Alex Vesia, Tanner Scott, Justin Wrobleski, Jack Dreyer and Anthony Banda as lefty relievers on the 40-man roster.
Ronin Cop sounds like it would be a good movie about a cop disillusioned with modern policing and begins policing the police.
…Or
It’s a dystopian future where a lone cop is the only survivor after his whole precinct is wiped out. No longer with a captain, he roams the country side with only a side arm and his trusty K9 pal Rusty, bringing justice to an unjust world any way they can.
Sorry, I’m not paying to watching “cop working for free to dispense what he thinks is justice when society collapses”. I want “cop upholds societally agreed justice for free when those in power refuse to abide by the same standards”.
Ronin Cop fights against the dystopian future, he doesnt try to pick up the pieces and put them back together.
Dodgers are ruining baseball by keeping marginal relievers hoping their upside will come to the forefront.
I’m a Kopp, you idiot!
Said in your best David Harbour Boston accent
I am guessing that Peter Heubeck wll be picked in Rule V.
And Dodger F/O is OK with it
Apparently