It’ll be interesting to see what the Los Angeles Dodgers do with some of their lower-tier players on the roster.
Among them is Andy Pages, who many don’t view as a major league player.
Pages has had some decent moments at the big league level, including two home runs recently against the Washington Nationals in back-to-back games, but his overall play has been lackluster, to say the least.
If the Dodgers want to move on from him, there could be a few ways to go about it. If one thing has stayed true over the past few years, Andrew Friedman will do everything he can to get a star.
In a proposed trade from Newsweek’s Drew VonScio, the Dodgers would do the opposite of that.
Los Angeles would take on Ceddanne Rafaela of the Boston Red Sox, an unproven young player who has shown some decent signs at the big league level.
“Through 47 at-bats this season, Pages is posting a slash line of .149/.273/.298 for the Dodgers.
You don’t have to be a diehard baseball fan to know that slash line is awful. As a result, the Dodgers could turn to Red Sox utility man Ceddanne Rafaela… ”
Adding Rafaela would give the Dodgers another advantage they currently don’t have with Pages. Rafaela is also capable of playing shortstop and second base, so the Dodgers could get creative with him, Tommy Edman and Mookie Betts as to how they get deployed on a nightly basis,” he wrote.
Adding Rafaela wouldn’t be the worst idea, but the Dodgers shouldn’t expect him to come in and be a game-changer. The 24-year-old has shown his value defensively, but he’s never posted higher than an 84 OPS+ in the first three seasons of his career.
Offensively speaking, he wouldn’t give the Dodgers much to write home about.