re: MLB Trade Deadline Thread (8/1: Rangers acquire Lucroy and Jeffress)

Kazmir went 7 last week but outside of him, Kershaw two months ago was the last iirc

The Dodgers pen has the 5th best fip in baseball. Both yimi and liberatore have fips under 3 to go with Kenley

Right. It's something we need to address by getting starting pitching. That's why we are being linked to starters right now

You also need someone to get us to the point where we can have a guy come in late and blow people away. We don't have that

I've already agreed with you about the starter. That's priority 1. But our bullpen hasn't been trustworthy in jams in a playoff series. That's all I'm saying. I've seen it happen too many times in the past few seasons.

Still Gardner gives you a leadoff hitter and a solid defender in center

i think in many ways you have to give the dodger front office some recognition for this year. look at not only the amount of injuries, but whom has suffered them, and then look at our record. they absolutely have advantages over others in being able to make low risk, high reward deals. but its impressive how the team is sitting at 11 games over 500 and with a 2 game cushion in the WC with all of the personnel issues weve had to deal with this year

Anything is better than Ben Revere dude. This is the worst CF I've ever seen and I watched several years of Nyger fricking Morgan.

Eaton is mediocre defensively in Center. He's top shelf in right. That said, he always played center surrounded by cement-foots in left and right, so he'd probably be a lot better with capable corner guys around him.
He's another one on a great contract- signed for another several years at modest rate. Other teams may not want to pay for that value in July when long term budget and team building aren't the priority.