Despite adding Zack Greinke at the deadline, the Houston Astros have a potential formidable NL opponent in the Los Angeles Dodgers.
I have my allegiances, and so do you, and those allegiances were on full display Wednesday, as fans sat idly by with their phones out waiting for deadline news benefiting their favorite team. My team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, were pretty quiet.
They acquired 30-year-old infielder Jedd Gyorko from the St. Louis Cardinals and southpaw Adam Kolarek from the Tampa Bay Rays. Other than that, their deadline day came and went fairly quickly.
Then they did a thing.
Hours after the deadline, the Dodgers announced that they’re calling up RHP Dustin May, their #2 prospect, to start Friday against San Diego. Not only is making your major league debut an amazing feat, but it looked unlikely that he would be here at all.
Reports had teams asking for May, as well as Gavin Lux and Keibert Ruiz, in any major deals. The Dodgers, though, are notorious for not trading their top prospects i.e; Cody Bellinger, Corey Seager, Clayton Kershaw, Walker Buehler, Alex Verdugo, Will Smith, and now Dustin May. The Dodgers refused to trade May to get an ace or a lights-out reliever, and now instead of getting them the answer, he could be the answer.
This goes to show just how deep the Dodgers really are, and how all the prospects they’ve refused to trade over the past few years are finally ready for the bigs.
May, however, was not the biggest news of deadline day, not even close. Moments after the clock struck 4 pm eastern, it was announced that the Arizona Diamondbacks traded Zack Greinke and cash to the Houston Astros for a handful of prospects.
I guess you could say the Houston Astros did a thing too.