{"id":454197,"date":"2026-02-07T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/454197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:08:07","slug":"dodgers-cut-reliever-anthony-banda-after-2-world-series-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/454197\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers cut reliever Anthony Banda after 2 World Series titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 The Los Angeles Dodgers designated reliever Anthony Banda 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 Arizona, Tampa Bay, the New York Mets, Pittsburgh, Toronto, the New York Yankees and Washington. He is a combined 15-9 with 4.44 ERA in 209 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers claimed catcher Ben Rortvedt off waivers after he was designated for assignment by the Cincinnati Reds 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\u2019 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 Minnesota, the Yankees and Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 The Los Angeles Dodgers designated reliever Anthony Banda for assignment on Friday after the left-hander&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-454197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}