The Major League Baseball trade deadline is 3 p.m. PT on Thursday, July 31, and the Dodgers got their dealing started the night before. Here’s a summary of all the moves made by Los Angeles in and around the 2025 trade deadline.
Gervase and extras to Los Angeles
Technically the first trade by the Dodgers was completed on the morning of the deadline, though it was all reported the Wednesday night before. The Dodgers traded catcher Hunter Feduccia to the Rays for pitcher Paul Gervase, a 6’10 right-hander with impressive strikeout rates
in the minors who made his major league debut this season. But that’s not all.
This was a three-team deal, and the Dodgers also got minor league catcher Ben Rortvedt, who has major league experience and replaces Feduccia as third on the catching depth chart, but just off the 40-man roster. Also coming to the Dodgers was left-hander Adam Serwinowski from the Reds, a 21-year-old in High-A.
Getting potentially multiple years of a reliever for Feduccia, who was the odd man out behind Will Smith and Dalton Rushing, seems like a reasonable deal for the Dodgers, and more so if they get anything out of Rortvedt and/or Serwinowski.
Old friend returns home
Brock Stewart pitched in an independent league and Tommy John surgery wiped out his 2021-22 seasons. But he has emerged as an effective reliever the last three seasons for the Twins who throws hard, strikes out a lot of batters and limits hard contact. He’s back with the team that drafted him in 2014, and for whom he pitched parts of four seasons for 2016-19.
Stewart, now 33, has two more seasons of salary arbitration remaining after 2025.
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