MLB Trade Deadline: Teams that won the deadline
By Anthony Sosa
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers currently sport the best record in MLB at 74-31. Over the past two months, the Dodgers have won 42 of 52 games. Even with that, they added more firepower to their squad.
Los Angeles waited until the last hour of the deadline to make some significant moves. They added one of the top pitchers in today’s game when they acquired right-handed starting pitcher Yu Darvish from the Texas Rangers.
In the Darvish trade, the Dodgers sent prospects Willie Calhoun, A.J. Alexy and Brendon Davis to Texas.
Darvish pitched four and a half seasons for the Rangers and in that time, he made four All-Star teams. He owned a 52-39 record, a 3.42 ERA, a 1.181 WHIP, a 3.98 FIP and 960 strikeouts.
Darvish joins a rotation with Clayton Kershaw (currently on the DL), Rich Hill, Alex Wood, Hyun-Jin Ryu and Kenta Maeda. With the way Wood has pitched this season, the Dodgers now have four top of the line pitchers in their rotation.
The Dodgers didn’t stop there, though.
They also acquired two left-handed relievers in Tony Watson from the Pittsburgh Pirates and Tony Cingrani from the Cincinnati Reds. In 2017, Watson had 10 saves for the Pirates, with a 3.66 ERA and 35 strikeouts. Cingrani sports a 5.40 ERA and 24 strikeouts in 2017. Both pitchers possess great stuff.
The additions improved a team that was already top notch. The Dodgers are eyeing the World Series and look to reach it for the first time since 1988.