Dodgers welcome deadline additions, hopeful arrival ‘raises the floor for our ballclub’

Tampa, Florida – Dodgers did not shop at the market summit before the commercial deadline on Thursday.

But what they left – the right -handers Brock Stewart and Paul Gervase to strengthen the enclosure of the readers, and the versatile voltiseur Alex Call to complete the range – are the kind of movements that “launches the ground for our club,” said manager Dave Roberts on Friday.

“I think we have improved,” said Roberts, before echoing the hope of the Front Office that the biggest dodgers improvements in the last two months of the season come from the stars, but underperformatives, to the heart they already have in place.

“I think we have a good fairly good team.

The work of the two largest acquisitions of Dodgers, Stewart and Call, will be clear from the start.

Stewart, a former Dodgers swingman from 2016 to 2019, reinvented himself in the second half of his career. Unlike his first visit to Los Angeles, when he launched the stockings of the 90s and was a long lift on the list, Stewart is now an upward relief option, with a quick ball and a swing and swing and swing and switch he used to dominate right-handed strikers this season.

“At the end [of his first Dodgers stint]He lost the speed and tried to know if he could hang on and who was at that time, “recalls Roberts.” Obviously, he put a ton of work to find himself again. He was only successful. I am delighted to see this version of him. He should certainly not lack confidence. »»

Stewart will not solve the problems of ninth round of the Dodgers – with their closer role in the air since the distribution of the offseason in difficulty, Tanner Scott has made the list of injuries with an elbow injury – but could obtain safeguard situations “in the right situation,” said Roberts – for example, if a series of right -handed strikers (who is only holding.

“I trust the guy, I trust the player, what he has become,” said Roberts. “So for me, if the situation calls for this evening and it is in ninth round, I have all the confidence.”

Gervase, a 6 -feet 10 -inch right -hander that the Dodgers acquired Tampa Bay rays in exchange for the Hunter Feduccia sensor as part of a three -team business on Wednesday evening, was also on the active list on Friday. It comes with only five previous MLB career appearances, but a deceptive delivery helped by its long -term extension on the mound.

“I don’t know much about him,” said Roberts. “I know he has a big arm. He has an extension, an increase, but I have not seen him. ”

The arrival of Stewart and Gervase coincided with another loss in the enclosure of the lifts. The right -handed veteran Kirby Yates, another intersane signature which disappointed a 4.31 MPM this season, was placed on the injured list due to persistent discomfort in his pelvic and lower area. He returned to Los Angeles to do other tests.

“In the last one, call that, two weeks, he didn’t feel good,” said Roberts. “Was not injured, in his words, which is why he continued to launch and compete. But we returned to us this morning to watch the doctor and do tests to see if there is something that was somehow aggravated.

In the programming, Roberts said that the call – a 30 -year -old companion who has found a niche with Washington Nationals in recent seasons as a basic threat capable of cringing difficult batteries – would mix in three external places.

“”[He is] A hard and fiery striker, “said Roberts.” I certainly see him playing against the left. But I think he’s almost a neutral guy. Slugs a little more against the left, but puts itself at the base against the right. I will try to keep it there a week a week. “”

Call said that he was not shocked to learn that he was exchanged on Thursday and that he was excited by the “chance of competing in the playoffs and winning a world series” with a first Dodgers team.

“For me, I’m going to grind the bats, put the ball in play, do my walks, make things difficult on the launcher,” said Call, who hit 0.297 with the Nationals in 102 games in the last two seasons. “Do it really [pitchers] Work so that they are tired when the top of the order returns or otherwise. »»

Roki sasaki facing strikers

Internally, the Dodgers hope that the Japanese launcher Recruit Roki Sasaki will also be able to serve as a de facto addition at the end of the season after having missed the last months with a shoulder injury.

And this week, the right -hander took a key step in its recovery process.

Sasaki faced the strikers for the first time since his injury in a simulated round last week in Arizona, said Roberts, and is expected to launch two simulated plum rounds on Saturday.

The team targeted a return at the end of August for Sasaki, who had a 4.72 MPM in eight departures this season before going to the IL.