{"id":31340,"date":"2025-07-29T07:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31340\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:49:07","slug":"roberts-dodgers-not-trading-dalton-rushing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/31340\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberts: Dodgers Not Trading Dalton Rushing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dodgers manager Dave Roberts strongly downplayed the idea that the team would move rookie catcher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rushida01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dalton Rushing<\/a> before Thursday\u2019s deadline. MassLive\u2019s Sean McAdam reported last week that the Red Sox were <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/07\/red-sox-interested-in-dalton-rushing.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">showing interest<\/a> in the 24-year-old catcher, who\u2019d certainly have been a target of multiple clubs if the Dodgers were willing to trade him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t talked to Dalton (about the trade speculation),\u201d Roberts said on Monday (link via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2025\/07\/28\/is-dodgers-dalton-rushing-about-to-part-of-a-trade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bill Plunkett of The Orange County Register<\/a>). \u201cI just don\u2019t see a world in which he\u2019s moved anyway, and I think he\u2019s smart enough to realize that.\u201d That aligns with reporting from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6516542\/2025\/07\/25\/dodgers-offensive-upgrades-trade-deadline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic<\/a>, who wrote last week that the Dodgers aren\u2019t inclined to trade either Rushing or infield prospect\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=freela000ale&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alex Freeland<\/a> \u2014 who is expected to come up for his MLB debut tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Rushing entered the season as L.A.\u2019s best minor league talent and a top 20 overall prospect at Baseball America. Teams are loath to part with prospects of that caliber. To the extent that there was chatter about the Dodgers potentially dealing Rushing, it came from a question of playing time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=smithwi05,smithwi04,smith-094wil,smith-088wil,smith-090wil,smith-091wil&amp;search=Will+Smith&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Will Smith<\/a> is locked in as L.A.\u2019s primary catcher for a decade. That didn\u2019t stop the Dodgers from calling Rushing up in the middle of May. They haven\u2019t given him starts anywhere other than catcher in the big leagues, seemingly preferring not to overload him with defensive responsibility as he adjusts to facing pitching at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>The lefty-hitting Rushing has started slowly, batting .200\/.270\/.275 while striking out 36 times in his first 89 MLB plate appearances. That\u2019s a tiny sample in only semi-regular playing time that seemingly hasn\u2019t given the Dodgers any pause about his offensive upside. The former second-round pick has a .289\/.409\/.512 slash in 301 career Triple-A plate appearances. Rushing has a full slate of minor league options, so the Dodgers have the ability to send him back to Triple-A if they decide to turn to a more experienced backup at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dodgers manager Dave Roberts strongly downplayed the idea that the team would move rookie catcher\u00a0Dalton Rushing before Thursday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,11768,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-31340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dalton-rushing","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}