Dodgers Acquire Infielder Ronald Torreyes From Blue Jays
After weeks spent tinkering on the fringes of the 40-man roster on a near-daily basis, the Los Angeles Dodgers eased off the pedal recently; with the Juan Uribe trade serving as an exception. They were busy again Friday by acquiring infielder Ronald Torreyes from the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for cash considerations.
To clear room on the 40-man roster for Torreyes, who was then optioned to Double-A Tulsa, the Dodgers designated Darwin Barney for assignment. They acquired Barney in a trade last season and the versatile infielder made the Opening Day roster, but was optioned rather quickly to Triple-A Oklahoma City and hasn’t returned to the Majors since.
Torreyes signed with the Cincinnati Reds in 2010, at the time just 17 years old. He spent two seasons in the club’s farm system before moving on to spend time in the Minors with the Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros and Blue Jays.
The Venezuelan native opened this season at the Triple-A level with the Astros, but spent the last 16 games with Double-A New Hampshire (Blue Jays). He’s a primary second baseman and has also logged some time at shortstop, third base and in the outfield.
Being sent to Double-A hasn’t correlated with better results at the plate for Torreyes as he’s batting just .140/.204/.180 with New Hampshire. He’s hitting a combined .175/.208/.200 this season. Torreyes becomes the third player the Dodgers have acquired from the Blue Jays for cash considerations, joining relief pitcher Matt West and first baseman Andy Wilkins.
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I’m surprised they dfa’d barney. I figured he’d be involved in a trade before the deadline.
Boy that doesn’t Seem like a good pick up to me. Barney won a gold glove with the cubs
This must be another way of “gaming the system”. The trade doesn’t seem to make much sense any other way.
Another stupid transaction by calculator boy Friedman and his nerd staff. Is there any rhyme or reason? How about getting a reliever who can get a key out once in a while.
Why so grumpy? Seems to me that almost all the “stupid transactions” that folks on here complained about during the off season have worked out pretty well…
The team is only 2.5 games ahead of a SF team whose biggest talent is their ballboy. Worse yet, the team is boring with no athleticism and an all-time horrible manager.
You’re selling SF short….besides…of course we are not leading by a ton of games. Leading by anything with the amount of injuries we’ve had is one helluva accomplishment and PROVES that all the “stupid” transactions by our front office have worked. Do you not understand the depth of this team and their ability thus far to fight through adversity and still lead the division? Friedman and company did an outstanding job putting the team together…even if all of us internet experts didn’t understand every move.
Secondly, who cares if you think the team is “boring”. I think they’re WINNING.
Au contraire my man. There is a “Dodger” brand of baseball. Yes, we want some power(Garvey, Gibson, Beltre, Kemp etc)….but Dodger Stadium was designed for fundamentally sound baserunning and all the successful Dodger teams had at least 1 good baserunner from Steve Sax in the beginning to Brett Butler to Orlando Hudson….now Calculator Boy says that baserunning makes his computer have to do extra calculations so no more speed. Every Dodger now makes Frankenstein look like Dee Gordon. Fuck Friedman. He’s overrated.
The “dodger brand” of baseball is winning. We are doing that. Just not the way you want. Get over it. The game isn’t the same as it was in the 80s. All that matters at the end of the day is that our team has more runs than their opponent. So far, almost 60% of the time, we are doing that. We are doing it more often than all but one team in MLB. We are doing that while dealing with adversity and injuries. We are doing it while coming back from behind in games, which we couldn’t do last year or the year before, even with Gordon and Hanley and kemp.
NEWS FLASH
We are a winning ball club. Stop complaining about how it’s happening.
I guess when we bring home a ring, you’ll be disappointed because it wasn’t won the way the Dodgers won games 30 years ago, right?