The Dodgers re-signed right-handed appeaser Blake Treinen a $ 17.5 MM two-year warranty that includes a $ 8 MM club option or a $ 1.5 MM buyout for 2023, USA Today’s Bob Nightengale was among those to report. Treinen is a client of Apex Baseball. The MLBTR predicted that it would have a two-year warranty of $ 14.5 million at the start of the off-season.
Treinen was a kind of low-cost pickup truck for the Dodgers last winter, although they had to guarantee the old track record of athletics $ 10 million. While he was coming from a disappointing season in Oakland, the change paid off for the World Series Dodgers winner, who got 25 2/3 innings of 3.86 ERA ball with a strikeout rate of 20.6 percent, walking rate of 7.5 percent and a tremendous 64 percent baseball rate from Treinen. The 32-year-old continued to increase the 97 mph average on his fastball along the way.
Leaving aside his problems in 2019, Treinen has been one of the game’s most productive appeasers throughout his career. In all, Treinen pitched for an ERA of 3.02 with an elimination percentage of 23.3 and a walking rate of 9.4 percent in 425 2/3 major league entries. At his best, Treinen – also a former National – gave A’s 80 1/3 frames of 0.78 ERA ball in 2018. While Treinen has 72 defenses under his belt, he has so far served as a man of preparation for the Dodgers, who continue to rely on Kenley Jansen as the final answer of the game.
Treinen is expected to continue working as a bridge to Jansen in 2021, and the Dodgers will continue to present a formidable bullpen, even beyond these two. Dodgers helpers ended the 2020 campaign with the best 2.74 ERA in the National League Jake McGee turned into an excellent year and is now a free agent, they added the former All-Star Corey Knebel at the beginning of this off-season.
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