The Los Angeles Dodgers’ biggest trade deadline acquisition is going to be out for the entire 2025 postseason and will even miss the start of the 2026 season.
Right-handed pitcher Brock Stewart, who made just four appearances for the Dodgers after the trade deadline, is undergoing season-ending shoulder surgery, manager Dave Roberts announced ahead of Friday’s series opener against the Seattle Mariners.
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General manager Brandon Gomes clarified that it’s a “debridement procedure” in his right shoulder that will keep him out through the beginning of the 2026 season.
Gomes said the team expects him to be able to pitch “the majority” of next year, returning sometime during the first half.
Who Did the Dodgers Trade for Brock Stewart?
The Dodgers acquired Stewart ahead of the trade deadline from the Minnesota Twins in exchange for outfielder James Outman.
Was Brock Stewart Injured When the Dodgers Traded for Him?
At the time of the trade, there was a reported hold-up in the teams announcing the deal as LA looked over Stewart’s medical history.
The trade ended up going through, and Stewart made just four appearances for LA, sporting a 4.91 ERA before landing on the injured list.
The team was expecting him to return ahead of the postseason, but his timeline kept getting pushed back, and now he’s undergoing a major procedure on his shoulder.
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Not trading for a closer at the trade deadline, combined with trading for Brock Stewart, who clearly was not closer material and who was more likely than not to become injured and miss significant time, calls into question AF’s strategy for the trade deadline. Continuing to pitch Tanner Scott as a closer after the All-Star break, and Treinen after he returned from the IL and clearly could not throw strikes, calls into question AF and Dave Robert’s skills at selecting for use the players who are most likely to help the team win. Let’s hope that they sign Kyle Tucker and Bo Bichette as free agents, using the money off the books from Chris Taylor ($15 M) , Conforto ($13 M) , Kirby Yates ($13 M), Kershaw ($16 M), Rojas ($5 M), Barnes ($3.5 M) = $65 M off the books and find a couple of relief pitchers among River Ryan, Gavin Stone, Kyle Hurt, next year [Ohtani, Yamamoto, Glasnow, Snell, Sasaki, Sheehan begin the rotation, relivers being Wrobleski, Banda, Vesia, Jack Dreyer, Henriquez, Will Klein, Casperious, Treinen has a year left on his $11M/yr contract] and never again use Scott as a closer.