Just when you think the Dodgers aren’t going to make a deal at all during the winter, they go and make a colossal trade, albeit not what anyone would ever be expecting.
Saturday, the Dodgers and the Braves announced that they had made a five player trade, with the Dodgers sending Scott Kazmir, Brandon McCarthy, Adrian Gonzalez, and Charlie Culberson, along with cash considerations to Atlanta for Matt Kemp. In true Dodgers front office fashion, not a peep of the trade was leaked or even rumored ahead of time, and so it took the whole baseball world by surprise.