The Los Angeles Dodgers, suffering from an embarrassment of riches, attempted to bolster their late-inning pitching last year by signing not just Tanner Scott, but also Kirby Yates, while re-signing Blake Treinin. It both was an utter disaster and worked out perfectly. The former because all of those players struggled mightily and were nowhere to be found when the playoffs rolled around. The latter because they won the danged thing anyway. Hmph. Now I’m grumpy again.
Anyway, the Dodgers way of learning
from their mistakes is to try harder, because it was just announced that they’ve signed closer Edwin Díaz, a three-time All-Star with a career 2.82 ERA and 2.56 FIP in nine seasons with the New York Mets. The San Francisco Giants, of course, desperately need bullpen help as well, but we knew they were never going to play at the top of the market. There was just a hope that the Dodgers wouldn’t, either, but that hope was obviously very silly. According to multiple reports, it’s a three-year, $69 million deal.
Elsewhere in baseball news, as the dam continues to slowly break, slugger Kyle Schwarber is returning to the Philadelphia Phillies for five years and $150 million. There had briefly been reports that the Giants were interested in Schwarber, but those reports never made much sense, and now he’s headed back to the most logical place for him.
So the rich get richer, and the Giants … well … the Giants get nothing. For now. Stay tuned. Moves are coming. Maybe. Hopefully.
