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The Los Angeles Dodgers are reportedly concerned with a number of choices to enhance the workforce’s bullpen.
Based on Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic, the Dodgers are eyeing free-agent reliever Tanner Scott after he made the primary All-Star look of his profession in 2024. Los Angeles can also be concerned with a possible commerce involving Milwaukee Brewers nearer Devin Williams.
The Dodgers try so as to add “a minimum of yet one more” reliever over the offseason, per Ardaya.
Los Angeles’ need so as to add Scott has been obvious, because the Dodgers had been one of many finalists to land him forward of the 2024 commerce deadline earlier than he was in the end dealt to the San Diego Padres (by way of Jon Heyman of the New York Submit).
In 72 mixed video games with the Padres and Miami Marlins final season, Scott compiled a 1.75 ERA whereas placing out 84 batters in 72 innings of labor. He additionally appeared sharp throughout San Diego’s Nationwide League Division Collection look, permitting zero earned runs in 4.1 postseason innings pitched.
Jim Bowden of The Athletic projected Scott to land a four-year, $60 million deal in free company.
The Brewers declined Williams’ $10.5 million membership possibility for 2025, however he’ll stay beneath contract with the workforce in his closing 12 months of arbitration (by way of ESPN’s Jeff Passan). Nonetheless, his unsure future in Milwaukee may end in a change of surroundings.
Williams has been a constant menace within the Brewers’ bullpen since successful Nationwide League Rookie of the Yr in 2020, proudly owning a profession ERA of 1.83.
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In 22 appearances throughout his 2024 marketing campaign, the 30-year-old posted a 1.25 ERA and 0.969 WHIP. Williams additionally averaged an unbelievable 15.8 strikeouts per 9 innings, though his season got here to an finish by permitting a game-winning house run to the New York Mets within the NL Wild Card Collection.
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The Dodgers have already been energetic all through the offseason to this point, signing All-Star starter Blake Snell in addition to outfielder Michael Conforto.
As Los Angeles makes an attempt so as to add a high-leverage reliever, Scott and Williams look like its prime choices.
