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Dodgers Trade AJ Pollock To White Sox For Craig Kimbrel
11:32am: The two teams have announced the trade.
11:11am: The Dodgers and White Sox are in agreement on a trade sending outfielder AJ Pollock to Chicago in exchange for reliever Craig Kimbrel, reports Mark Feinsand of MLB.com (Twitter link).
It’s a fairly stunning blockbuster involving two high-profile and highly paid veterans. Pollock is earning $10MM this season and is owed at least a $5MM buyout on a $10MM player option for the 2023 season. Kimbrel, meanwhile, is slated to earn $16MM this coming season after the ChiSox picked up a 2022 club option despite a poor performance following the trade that sent him from Chicago’s north side to the south side last summer.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan tweets that there is no money changing hands in the deal, which means the Dodgers are effectively adding an extra million dollars in financial commitments (assuming Pollock declines his player option at a net $5MM and tests free agency next winter). The Dodgers will also see their luxury ledger tick upward a bit as a result of the trade. Pollock’s contract was a four-year, $55MM deal but counted as five years and $60MM for luxury tax purposes, as the player option on the end of the contract was considered guaranteed money. Thus, the contract carried a $12MM luxury hit. As Matt Gelb of The Athletic recently reported, the new CBA stipulates that a traded contract’s remaining actual dollars will count toward the luxury tax. As such, Kimbrel will now represent a $16MM luxury hit for the Dodgers (rather than the $14.5MM he’d have represented under previous rules).
Setting aside the financial component of the blockbuster swap, the trade fills a need for both teams. The Dodgers’ bullpen was lacking a shutdown option late in the game, and Kimbrel restored his credibility as a dynamic ninth-inning option through the first four months of the 2021 season while closing games for the Cubs. He’ll now join Blake Treinen, Daniel Hudson and young flamethrower Brusdar Graterol at the back of the Los Angeles bullpen.
Meanwhile, the White Sox have yet to address a glaring hole in right field all offseason. The closest the Sox had come to bolstering the right field position was a recent trade for the Phillies’ Adam Haseley, but the Sox announced that Haseley was optioned to Triple-A just minutes before word of today’s trade broke. Pollock will now step right into the outfield mix, giving the Sox a quality option to pair with center fielder Luis Robert and left fielder Eloy Jimenez. The Sox went much of the 2021 season with first basemen Andrew Vaughn and Gavin Sheets masquerading as corner outfielders, so bringing Pollock into the fold will give them a true outfielder — and a solid defensive one at that.
More to come.
Los Angeles Dodgers’ AJ Pollock out at least 2-3 weeks with hamstring injury, Dave Roberts says
Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder AJ Pollock will miss a “minimum” of two to three weeks after suffering a right hamstring strain in Saturday night’s 6-1 road win over the San Francisco Giants, manager Dave Roberts said.
After doubling in a run in the first inning, Pollock was injured when he attempted a steal and slid awkwardly into third base. He grimaced and immediately grabbed his right hamstring. He was helped off the field and eventually removed from the game.
Roberts said early indications are that Pollock suffered a Grade 2 strain.
“I don’t want to speculate. I know it wasn’t good,” he said, adding that Pollock would be re-evaluated Sunday. “Obviously it’s a huge loss in any capacity. … We just gotta see where we’re at tomorrow, but I think at the minimum it’s going to be a couple of weeks.”
Said Roberts: “He’s a guy you can plug in there every day. He hits right, he hits left, he drives runs in and gets on base. He’s just added so much to our ball club. To fill those shoes is going to be tough.”
Cody Bellinger replaced Pollock in the lineup and played center field, while Chris Taylor moved from center to left field.
Pollock, 33, missed 18 games earlier this season because of a strained left hamstring. He is batting .296 with 16 homers and 58 RBIs this season.
The Dodgers, who have won 21 of their past 26 games, moved into a tie for first place with San Francisco atop the NL West division.
AJ Pollock RBI single moves Dodgers into first place
LOS ANGELES — After four long months, the Dodgers are back in first place in the National League West.
The Dodgers pieced together a rally in the eighth to come from behind against the Braves and secure a series sweep in the 4-3 win on Wednesday at Dodger Stadium. Paired with the Giants’ loss to the Brewers, the Dodgers now have a half-game lead atop the NL West standings.
“It’s a start. We’re getting there,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. “I think that we just got to continue to play good baseball. There’s a lot of baseball left, and I just like the way our guys are just so resilient and pick each other up.”
Despite getting an early lead with Max Scherzer on the mound as he tossed six scoreless innings, the Dodgers needed to push across against Atlanta’s bullpen after Brusdar Graterol surrendered a two-run homer in the seventh.
The moment that thrust Los Angeles back into first place came with AJ Pollock at the plate, facing reliever Chris Martin, and Justin Turner on second base. Pollock singled through the hole at shortstop and Turner sped around the bases, sliding head first into home.
“I was just trying to see something a little bit up [in the strike zone],” said Pollock. “It wasn’t pretty. Just wanted to get the ball through the infield and watch JT fly around the bases like he always does and it worked out.”
It was a slow climb back to first place, with the Dodgers spending 90 days in second and 27 days in third, but they are back in familiar territory. With 28 games left in the regular season, three of the most pivotal matches will come this weekend against the Giants, the team they just managed to surpass.
The Braves helped the Dodgers over the past weekend when they took two out of three against San Francisco, edging Los Angeles closer to first. The favor, however, was not returned, as the Dodgers secured their 11th series sweep of the year against Atlanta.
“It feels great,” Pollock said of the Dodgers being back in first place. “Obviously, we’re focusing on us and doing what we have to do and try not to worry too much about what’s going on outside of this locker room, but we knew if we took care of business that we’d be at the top.”
The club went all in at the Trade Deadline and those acquisitions played a role in the win. Trea Turner scored the tying run in the eighth that kept the rally rolling for Pollock’s go-ahead hit, while Scherzer put up his third scoreless start since joining the Dodgers’ rotation.
The veteran right-hander at one point sat down 11 batters in a row as he tallied nine strikeouts without allowing a walk. He needed only 76 pitches through six frames with a 42 percent called strike plus whiff rate, but his outing was cut short due to right hamstring tightness.
“I didn’t injure it, I just knew it was tight,” said Scherzer. “I’ve had this happen in the past. There’s times where this happens and you just got to work around it. You might not be able to step on every fastball in the same way, but you can still pitch and when I’ve been in those situations before, you just stay with your game plan and just try to execute around that.”
Both Scherzer and Roberts said that he is expected to make his next scheduled start, which will be on Monday in St. Louis during the team’s four-game series against the Cardinals. Scherzer felt the tightness during the pregame warmups at the start of the first inning, but said he was going to go as long as he could without putting himself or the team in jeopardy.
If anything, Scherzer provided the Dodgers with the edge in the game with his conviction on the mound. Now, Los Angeles could have the advantage when the team arrives in San Francisco for one of the biggest series of the season between the two clubs. The Giants play the Brewers on Thursday while the Dodgers have the day off. A Giants loss would mean the Dodgers enter their weekend series with a full-game lead, while a Giants win would have the two teams open the series tied for first.
“We know going into the Giants series that it’s gonna be a big series. We’re all looking forward to it,” Scherzer said. “Obviously, they’re a great team. You want to go out there and play your best against them. These are the moments that you live for, it’s to have these types of opportunities to go out there and compete against the best. It should make for a great series.”