Los Angeles Dodgers trade candidate: Raisel Iglesias

The Los Angeles Dodgers will likely be active at the trade deadline if the front office plans on returning to the World Series. One target will be reliever Raisel Iglesias.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are in the midst of a great comeback that has driven them from the bottom of the National League to one of the teams to beat as the summer rolls around.

While what the Dodgers have done is impressive, there is still plenty of work to be done. The Dodgers are still competing with the Arizona Diamondbacks for division supremacy. While the Dodgers have won the division five years and counting, the Diamondbacks have been getting the best of the Dodgers.

Arizona is 8-4 against Los Angeles this season after being swept by the Dodgers in the NLDS last year.

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To compete with the Diamondbacks, one of the most important moves for the Dodgers to make is to bolster an already good bullpen. While this bullpen is not the same dominant force as it was in years past, it is still solid and one of the league’s best.

The Dodgers’ bullpen is eighth in the MLB in ERA over the last 30 days, per FanGraphs.

The Dodgers can add to the revamped bullpen by adding one of the best relievers on the trade market in Raisel Iglesias.

Iglesias is having a great season with a 2.14 ERA and 38 strikeouts in 33.2 innings pitched (at the time of writing this). The Cincinnati Reds will undoubtedly be shopping Iglesias as one of their most valuable trade chips.

To get an idea of what the Los Angeles Dodgers may need to send for Iglesias, we can take a look back at the trade that landed Kelvin Herrera on the Washington Nationals.

Herrera, who had a 1.05 ERA in 27 games with the Kansas City Royals, was acquired for a three-prospect package. That package included Blake Perkins, Kevin Gutierrez and Yohanse Morel.

None of the three prospects rank in MLB Pipeline’s top 100 list. Gutierrez and were ranked the 10th and 11th in the Nationals system, Morel did not crack the top 30.

Although Herrera has the more impressive resume, his trade value is less than Iglesias’ due to that fact that Herrera is on an expiring deal, Iglesias is under team control through the 2020 season.

Still, Herrera set the bar fairly low and Iglesias is not set to jump far above it. For Iglesias, the Dodgers could send a three-prospect package consisting of Yusniel Diaz (Ranked fourth), Dustin May (Ranked 10th) and Jake Peter (Ranked 30th).

The Reds would get two projects in Diaz and May that will eventually climb through the ranks. Peter is a talent that will immediately be assigned to AAA and can even be a valuable MLB piece as soon as 2018.

Parting ways with Diaz is a big cost, however, the Dodgers have always had a surplus of outfielders. With Alex Verdugo, Tim Locastro, Andrew Toles and DJ Peters to bank on in the minors, the Dodgers will be just fine without Diaz.

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Raisel Iglesias is a cheap yet effective trade chip that could serve as a setup move for bigger things to come in LA.

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