After the previous deal with the A’s, the Dodgers made another deal today with the Marlins, dealing with relief Dylan Floro to revive Alex Vesia.
Alex Vesia is a left-handed reliever who will enter the 25-year season this year. He only has an extension of five games in the main ones, playing 4.1 entries with five eliminations and seven walks. He also has an ERA of 18.69, so things could have gone better for him in his audition. That said, he also showed impressive numbers for the secondary league, throwing 100 entries while eliminating 138 and walking just 26, making a total of 1.62 ERA. He also had a streak of 40.2 inning goalless.
Vesia’s material seems inexpressive at first glance, he throws a 92 mph fastball 73% of the time, mixing a slider and shift. Of course, he feels a ton of breath, which is due to his vertical movement in the field. The type of arm the Dodgers are coveting is no secret.
Vesia also has three options left and is under control until 2026, depending on when you make the majors.
Kyle Hurt is a candidate for the 5th round of the 2020 draft of the USC, which will already be entering its 23-year season. Obviously, the pandemic did not allow much information to occur here, since there was no MILB season, but based on its preliminary report, it looks like nothing.
Hurt long ago had the size and the pure material to make him a very strong launcher candidate. His fastball will be in the 92-94 range and he will reach 160 km / h, and he will be able to find a more consistent speed at the top end of that scale while continuing to add strength to his 6 ft-3 frame. Your best secondary shot is change, which can be a positive step over time. It launches a strong slider in the 1980s and a slower curve in the 1970s, both showing glimpses, but are inconsistent breaking pitches.
Dylan Floro is entering his 30 year season in 2021 and has been a quality appeaser, but nothing spectacular. More than 159.2 innings, he has a career of 3.33 ERA and 3.23 FIP, counting not with strikeouts, but with a sinker that induces 54% of grounders.
Floro still has three more years of control of the team and is currently earning almost a million. Although he is a quality intermediate relief arm, he does not have the rear end that the Dodgers seem to be looking for. The Dodgers considered him expendable and are probably right with the wealth of pen options at their disposal, although, fortunately, he was invaluable for a three-tone sequence Randy Arozarena.
I will never forget that.
Much like the Adam Kolarek trade, this seems to be another one where Dodgers basically recycle depth, at least. They deal with an average quality relief on the wrong side of 30 for multiple live arms with twice the years of team control.
Floro is the much more reliable option to have a usable 2021 season, but Vesia could be better than him next year, and if not, the most important thing is that he has options and the Dodgers have many other pitchers ready to give your shot. While it is not the highly successful business that many are waiting for, in the past these were the types of small businesses (Floro was one of them) that end up yielding later and allow Dodgers to operate freely on larger ticket items.