{"id":102549,"date":"2025-06-20T18:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T22:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=102549"},"modified":"2025-06-20T19:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T23:03:58","slug":"dodgers-acquire-reliever-zach-penrod-from-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/20\/dodgers-acquire-reliever-zach-penrod-from-red-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Acquire Reliever Zach Penrod from the Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers can&#8217;t get enough arms. They have acquired left-handed reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=penroza01,penrod001zac&amp;search=Zach+Penrod&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Penrod<\/a> from the Boston Red Sox in exchange for cash considerations. Penrod was a casualty of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/15\/sf-giants-acquire-rafael-devers-red-sox\/\" target=\"_self\">Rafael Devers trade<\/a>, as the left-hander was designated for assignment. To make room on the 40-man roster, Los Angeles transferred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sasakro01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roki Sasaki<\/a> to the 60-day injured list.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Dodgers acquired LHP Zach Penrod from the Red Sox for cash considerations. In order to make room on the roster, the Dodgers transferred RHP Roki Sasaki to the 60-day injured list.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dodgers\/status\/1936149436885090705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Dodgers Acquire Reliever Zach Penrod in Trade with Red Sox<\/h2>\n<h3>Another Diamond In the Rough?<\/h3>\n<p>It is no secret that Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman likes <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/29\/reliever-alexis-diaz-traded-dodgers\/\" target=\"_self\">bargain bullpen pieces,<\/a> and Penrod may have potential. The left-handed Penrod has a 2.25 ERA in just seven big league appearances. He was originally signed by the Texas Rangers as an undrafted free agent back in 2018. He never caught on and spent some time toiling in the Independent Pioneer League before catching the Red Sox&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n<h3>Oh the Elbow<\/h3>\n<p>The 28-year-old was fighting for one of the last bullpen spots in spring training with Boston. However, an elbow injury cost him a chance at the roster. Control is an issue for Penrod, but one wonders if a compromised elbow had something to do with the lack of command. On the comeback trail in the minors, the left-hander has seven walks and thrown three wild pitches in limited time. However, Penrod has also struck out 25% of the batters he has faced. He has an impressive repertoire of pitches, including a 95 mph fastball, which has the ability to miss bats. As an added bonus, he also has three years of minor league options remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/02\/dodgers-multiple-moves-acquire-will-klein-mariners\/\" target=\"_self\">Dodgers already have 12 pitchers o<\/a>n the IL and use a lot of arms through the course of a season, so it would be no surprise if Zach Penrod is on a taxi squad soon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102555\" style=\"width: 516px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-102555\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26493417_168400885_lowres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26493417_168400885_lowres-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26493417_168400885_lowres-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26493417_168400885_lowres-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26493417_168400885_lowres-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26493417_168400885_lowres-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26493417_168400885_lowres-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26493417_168400885_lowres-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jun 19, 2025; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Roki Sasaki (11) walks on the field prior to the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>One Final Note<\/h3>\n<p>Roki Sasaki will be eligible to be activated from the IL in July. However, nobody knows if and when that will happen. But one thing is for sure, the Dodgers can never have enough pitching.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: \u00a9 Eric Canha-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers can&#8217;t get enough arms. They have acquired left-handed reliever Zach Penrod from the Boston Red Sox in exchange for cash considerations. Penrod was a casualty of the Rafael Devers trade, as the left-hander was designated for assignment. To make room on the 40-man roster, Los Angeles transferred Roki Sasaki to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":102554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4,1071,35],"tags":[1535,28707,29003],"class_list":["post-102549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodgers","category-redsox","category-mlb","category-news","tag-rafael-devers","tag-roki-sasaki","tag-zach-penrod"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102561,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102549\/revisions\/102561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}