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Report: Reds Complete Trade With Dodgers, Acquire Prospect Arnaldo Lantigua. Lantigua hit .310 in the Dominican Summer League last season.
Lantigua, 19, batted .301 with 11 home runs and 42 RBI across 49 games for the Rookie-DSL Dodgers Mega in 2024.
The Dodgers announced that they’ve traded minor league outfielder Arnaldo Lantigua to the Reds for international bonus pool space. Cincinnati is reportedly sending $1.5MM in pool room to the Dodgers. Bonus pool money must be traded in multiples of $250K. Los Angeles now has sufficient funds to finalize their $6.5MM deal with Roki Sasaki.
Winker, 31, said he expects to fill a “very similar” role to the one he played last year for the Mets, who alternated him between right field, left field and designated hitter after acquiring him in a late-July trade with the Washington Nationals.
MLB investigated Roki Sasaki’s signing process with the Dodgers, addressing rumors of a prearranged deal and confirming no wrongdoing.
Pirates fans already are anxious the club won't be able to afford to keep Skenes down the road, with a small group encouraging club chairman Bob Nutting to sell the team.
With Walker Buehler gone to Boston, most of the pitching staff is either bought or acquired as well; Tony Gonsolin, Dustin May, Edgardo Henriquez, and Michael Grove are the only Dodgers draftees or amateur international free agent signings left (even though Grove doesn't feel likely to stay for long).
The Los Angeles Dodgers had to lose many prospects to free up enough international bonus pool money to win the Roki Sasaki sweepstakes.
Executives around MLB have questions about whether there was any funny business involved in Dodgers' signing of Roki Sasaki.
The most intriguing free agent of the offseason will wear Dodger Blue to begin his big league career. Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki has agreed to sign with the Dodgers, he announced in a post on Instagram on Friday afternoon.
The Blue Jays paid $11 million for a replacement-level player, because they thought it would help them get Roki Sasaki.