{"id":464059,"date":"2026-02-07T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464059\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T08:36:13","slug":"dodgers-cut-reliever-banda-after-2-world-series-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464059\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers cut reliever Banda after 2 World Series titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> designated reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34542\/anthony-banda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Banda<\/a> for assignment on Friday after the left-hander won two consecutive World Series rings with the team.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Banda had a 5-1 record with a 3.19 ERA in 71 games last season. He had an 8-3 record with a 3.14 ERA over two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Banda has been in the majors for parts of nine seasons with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-diamondbacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-nationals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington<\/a>. He is a combined 15-9 with 4.44 ERA in 209 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers claimed catcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40869\/ben-rortvedt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Rortvedt<\/a> off waivers after he was designated for assignment by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cin\/cincinnati-reds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old returns to the Dodgers, which he first joined on July 31 via a trade from Tampa Bay. Rortvedt played 18 games, hitting .224 with one home run and four RBI with Los Angeles. He helped the Dodgers&#8217; starting rotation to an MLB-leading 2.17 ERA in September. He appeared in four playoff games last season.<\/p>\n<p>Rortvedt had previous stints with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-twins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota<\/a>, the Yankees and Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES &#8212; The Los Angeles Dodgers designated reliever Anthony Banda for assignment on Friday after the left-hander&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-464059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}