The Dodgers and Marlins — no strangers when it comes to trades — consummated one on Thursday. Miami sent right-handed reliever Brandon Kintzler to LA for prospects Michael Busch and Jared Walker.
What?
First off, there’s absolutely no way real Andrew Friedman trades a 1st-rounder from 2019 for a 35-year-old reliever not named Ian Kennedy (and even that would be an extreme stretch), but let’s just roll with it.
The Dodgers have, clearly, needed bullpen help. The simulation has bought into the Dodgers’ bullpen problems narrative of the last half-decade, so it rolled the dice.