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Los Angeles Dodgers: Four possible additions that are not Bryce Harper

By Josh Ejnes

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 28: A general view during the third inning of Game Five of the 2018 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox at Dodger Stadium on October 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 28: A general view during the third inning of Game Five of the 2018 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox at Dodger Stadium on October 28, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) /
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Corey Kluber

the Indians have been trying to move Corey Kluber since the beginning of the offseason, and the fact that he’s yet to be traded isn’t due to lack of interest. The 2017 Cy Young Award winner is an attractive trade target for pretty obvious reasons, coming off of his fifth straight season with over 200 strikeouts and 200 innings pitched.

Last year, the Los Angeles Dodgers had an embarrassment of riches offensively, but their pitching was pretty thin. Clayton Kershaw can still be effective, but he’s getting up there in age and is coming of his third straight sub 30 start season.

By the end of the year, Walker Buehler had emerged as the Dodgers probable ace of the future, but he can certainly use another durable arm to help him out at the top of the rotation; Kluber certainly fits this bill, and would be under contract through 2021. Kluber’s stats from last year wipe the floor with those of anyone on the current Dodgers staff, though he did play in a much weaker division.

When it comes to a possible deal between the Indians and Dodgers, the Indians have the upper hand, because in reality they don’t need to trade Kluber. They’ve made a bevy of moves to help themselves out financially, and are not in the same situation they were when the Kluber rumors first start floating around in November. Jon Paul Morosi of MLB.com reports that the Los Angeles Dodgers might be willing to trade top prospect Alex Verdugo in a package for Kluber, and it will likely take them moving a player of that caliber to make any Kluber deal work. If the Indians aren’t satisfied with their half of the bargain they have plenty of other suitors.

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