Alex Call or Eric Lauer The Athletic reports that the Dodgers may use Call or Lauer as bargaining chips
If I were the Dodgers, I absolutely would see what I could get from Alex Call and try to use him to potentially replenish that farm system too.
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My guy Fabian Ardaya and Katie Woo, they did a lot of, incredible reporting, and one thing they threw out there was the possibility of trading Alex Call.
Alex Call to me, if you look at the arm and you look at the defensive versatility, his strong suit is to be able to grind out at-bats and draw big walks.
Arm value, he's a minus one, slightly above league average.
He's a below average hitter.
Alex Call, 31, so it's not like he's got a lot of growth potential.
I mean, he is what he is as a player, and he's got three arbitration years left, '27, '28 and '29.
If I were the Dodgers, I absolutely would see what I could get from Alex Call and try to use him to potentially replenish that farm system too.
And I mentioned it on this show, I've said it for months now, the Dodgers were always gonna trade Eric Lauer.
Eric Lauer makes sense for other teams, but he is gonna be this year's version of what Dustin May was last year, or James Paxton was the year before that, or Noah Syndergaard was a year before that, where because they didn't feel like, one, they were gonna be a part of this team's future, or even two, help and be a part of this team's postseason rotation.
I love the fact the Dodgers are 8-0 in games that Eric Lauer's pitched, but he is not going to have a spot in this rotation or this bullpen if the postseason comes around, unless a lot of things go very wrong
