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“Genius Squad” Continues Dodgers Roster Overhaul With Big Day

Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

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In addition to Gordon, Haren and Rojas, the Dodgers will send a player to be named later or cash considerations, which, in essence, allowed them to purchase four prospects in pitcher Andrew Heaney, reliever Chris Hatcher, utility man Enrique Hernandez, and minor league catcher Austin Barnes.



Heaney was the real catch of the group — rated by many as one of the top-30 prospects in baseball heading into 2014, but the good news is that the other players are far from throw-aways.

At the very least, the Dodgers got a very, very good prospect and a few who can fill out their depleted farm system (or to potentially use as bait in other trades — see below), and at best, the Genius Squad completely man-handled the Marlins front office. Either way, chalk it up as a win.

Finally, to cap off a Genius Squad dream day, the Dodgers are reportedly nearing a four-year deal with McCarthy. Of all the pitchers left on the market, it seemed McCarthy was the one most geeks in the world loved.  Sure, his traditional numbers (ERA) weren’t great, but a look beneath the surface indicates that McCarthy was a much better pitcher than he got credit for.

Of course, with McCarthy, the question is whether he can remain healthy for the life of a contract — but, as Mike Petriello points out, beggars can’t be choosers:

So yeah, it’s risky, but the Dodgers aren’t going to get solid players for less years, so we’ll take what we can get.

Of course, the Genius Squad wasn’t done trolling the world.

As mentioned earlier, the Dodgers turned Dee Gordon, Miguel Rojas and Dan Haren into prospect Andrew Heaney and friends. Well, hopefully you didn’t print an Andrew Heaney jersey because new the Dodgers quickly turned Heaney into Angels’ second baseman Howie Kendrick.

To recap: the Dodgers turned Dee Gordon (2.4 WAR), Dan Haren and Miguel Rojas into Howie Kendrick (5.4 WAR) AND PROSPECTS.

Whaaaaaaaaatt?!?!

Somehow the Dodgers managed to upgrade at second base and ditch Haren’s contract in exchange for receiving quality baseball players. That sounds like a good deal! Yay Genius Squad!

(To be continued…)

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20 Comments

  1. They (Friedman & Zaidi) going to have to prove to me these were the right moves, as I don’t see it right now.

    1. El Senor Kasten is pleased with those trades that’s all that counts.I am a life long DODGER fan and I leave that side of the business to them. I like what they have done so far. They have enlighten us with a great team, enjoy and just wait for our time. It will be sweet.

  2. Genius>? Doubt that….trading Kemp in the division to one of your most bitter rivals is going to bite Zaidi on the ASS……..that being said…now Kemp gets to be thrown at by Zack Greinke……

    1. I don’t think you’re the person they were trying to prove their genius too. Especially after reading the article (if you did), how does one argue with the logic?

    1. that 10 mil comes off their salary for next year. they wont be getting taxed for that money. thats a big deal. kemps money too

      1. Thank you! I’m exhausted by all the people on here that don’t understand how that works.

  3. I have no complaints with the trades except for the Kemp trade.I’ve been a Dodgers fan all my life, seen a lot of trades. The Kemp trade was absolutely the dumbest I’ve seen. That’ll hurt ’em in the end. Of course we won’t know the outcome ’til the end of the year. IMO that was one dumb move. I don’t want to be another New York Yankees team!

  4. Giving up an injury prone and egotistical clubhouse cancer for a better then average catcher, oh and to offload most of that enormous contract and did I mention the ego?? Kemp may play 100 games for the fathers next year, thats a BIG maybe. Who wins, Matt Kemp wins, now he really is the star of a team just not the Dodgers 🙂

  5. It’s sometimes hard being a smart Dodgers fan that appreciates what they just did.

  6. THIS JUST IN!!… Andrew Friedman just traded Vin Scully to the Giants for a pair of winter socks and some s’mores.

    1. If you think they got NOBODYS for Kemp and Gordon than you don’t know anything about baseball.

    2. I know you obviously do not watch baseball. Kendrick is one of the best 2nd baseman in the past 30 years and Grandal is already a top 5 catcher in baseball all around and he is young and healthy while Kem is old and broken. These are why guys like you do what you do and GMS have their jobs.

  7. And you did not even mention the best trade of the Winter the Matt KemP for the All Star catcher Yasmani Grandal and Ian Thomas

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