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How trade deadline dynamics have complicated the Dodgers’ pursuit of Garrett Crochet

Garrett Crochet believes he can pitch through October.

“With the way my body’s been feeling and responding to the five-day routine,” the Chicago White Sox ace, and top trade deadline target, said at this month’s All-Star Game, “I think that anything’s possible.”

But whether he gets the chance, with the Dodgers or any other contending club, grows more seemingly less likely by the day.

In theory, someone like Crochet should fit what is perhaps the Dodgers’ biggest deadline need.

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The club wants an “impact” pitcher, as general manager Brandon Gomes described it this week.