{"id":59946,"date":"2023-07-28T16:43:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=59946"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:47:53","slug":"dodgers-trade-pitchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/07\/28\/dodgers-trade-pitchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Trade Details: LA Lands a Pair of White Sox Pitchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/07\/27\/trade-white-sox-angels\/\" target=\"_self\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> have fallen from grace just as quickly as they rose from it. A day after trading Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez, the firesale is in full swing. On Friday, The Athletic&#8217;s Ken Rosenthal confirmed that the White Sox are in agreement on a trade to send right-handers Lance Lynn and Joe Kelly to the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/07\/25\/statistical-dodger-greats-era\/\" target=\"_self\"> Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>. The trade signifies another nail in the coffin of the once-budding era of White Sox baseball.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Source confirms: Dodgers acquire Lynn, Kelly. First: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNightengale?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BNightengale<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/1684998889286365185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Dodgers Trade For Pitching Help<\/h2>\n<h3>Lynn&#8217;s Last Chance<\/h3>\n<p>The 36-year-old Lance Lynn will strive to regain his 2021 All-Star form in the City of Angels. With a pending 2024 $19M club option that will inevitably be denied, his next handful of starts will indicate if he is worth one last healthy contract. As of now, all signs point to a swift no. Lynn has a 6.47 ERA, the MLB-worst among qualified starters, in 2023. Hitters are barreling him far more frequently than last year, from 6.7 % to 10.9%. His walk rate has significantly increased as well, with a BB\/9 of 3.38 compared to 2022&#8217;s 1.41.<\/p>\n<h3>Kelly Back in L.A.<\/h3>\n<p>The hard-throwing Joe Kelly will begin his second Dodgers tenure on a slightly stronger foundation. While the reliever&#8217;s standard statistics aren&#8217;t exemplary, his underlying numbers are encouraging. Kelly is striking out more batters than ever this season with a career-high K rate of 32%. His xERA of 3.23 is more indicative of his performance rather than his real earned run average, which scrapes the ceiling of five. Kelly is sure to be a help for a bullpen that has struggled to hold leads in 2023.<\/p>\n<h3>The Recuperation<\/h3>\n<p>In return for the two veteran arms, the White Sox will receive outfielder Trayce Thompson, and right-handed pitchers Nick Nastrini, and Nick Leasure. It should be noted that Nastrini is the most interesting piece of the return. The Dodgers No. 9 prospect has an impressive K\/BB rate in Double-A Tulsa in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>Players Mentioned:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/giolilu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucas Giolito<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lopezre01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reynaldo Lopez<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lynnla01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lance Lynn<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=kellyjo05,kellyjo04,kellyjo03,kelly-008joe&amp;search=Joe+Kelly&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Kelly<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomptr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trayce Thompson<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=nastri000nic&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-07-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Nastrini<\/a><\/strong>,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like the Chicago White Sox have fallen from grace just as quickly as they rose from it. A day after trading Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez, the firesale is in full swing. On Friday, The Athletic&#8217;s Ken Rosenthal confirmed that the White Sox are in agreement on a trade to send right-handers Lance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4676,"featured_media":59950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[2,10,33,35],"tags":[903,1764,770,898],"class_list":["post-59946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-whitesox","category-dodgers","category-news","tag-joe-kelly","tag-lance-lynn","tag-lucas-giolito","tag-trayce-thompson"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59946","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\/4676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}