The Major League Baseball trade deadline is 3 p.m. PT on Thursday, July 31, and the Dodgers got their dealing started the night before. Here’s a summary of all the moves made by Los Angeles in and around the 2025 trade deadline, which included three players added to the 40-man roster, three players removed from the 40-man roster, four minor leaguers coming to the Dodgers and two minor leagues traded away.

Gervase and extras to Los Angeles

Technically the first trade by the Dodgers was completed on the morning of the deadline, though it was all reported the Wednesday night before. The Dodgers traded catcher Hunter Feduccia to the Rays for pitcher Paul Gervase, a 6’10 right-hander with impressive strikeout rates in the minors who made his major league debut this season. But that’s not all.

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This was a three-team deal, and the Dodgers also got minor league catcher Ben Rortvedt, who has major league experience and replaces Feduccia as third on the catching depth chart, but just off the 40-man roster. Also coming to the Dodgers was left-hander Adam Serwinowski from the Reds, a 21-year-old in High-A.

Getting potentially multiple years of a reliever for Feduccia, who was the odd man out behind Will Smith and Dalton Rushing, seems like a reasonable deal for the Dodgers, and more so if they get anything out of Rortvedt and/or Serwinowski.

Old friend returns home

Brock Stewart pitched in an independent league and Tommy John surgery wiped out his 2021-22 seasons. But he has emerged as an effective reliever the last three seasons for the Twins who throws hard, strikes out a lot of batters and limits hard contact. He’s back with the team that drafted him in 2014, and for whom he pitched parts of four seasons for 2016-19.

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Stewart, now 33, has two more seasons of salary arbitration remaining after 2025.

James Outman was sent to the Twins for Stewart. The outfielder finished third in National League Rookie of the Year voting in 2023, but hit just .137/.245/.269 with a 36.5-percent strikeout rate in 75 games in the majors in the two seasons since.

Getting the Call

After dealing away two position players off the 40-man roster, the Dodgers got one back with Alex Call coming from the Nationals. The right-handed hitter has played all three outfield positions during his four major league seasons and has better career numbers against left-handed pitching.

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Like the additions of Gervase and Stewart, the 30-year-old Call could potentially be around for longer than 2025, as he won’t hit salary arbitration until this winter and still has two option years remaining.

Minor league pitchers Eriq Swan and Sean Paul Liñan were sent to the Nationals in the trade.

The Paxton route

Dustin May was the odd man out in the Dodgers rotation, which will get Blake Snell back on Saturday. May, a pending free agent with a healthy but uneven season to date, was traded to the Red Sox, just like James Paxton one July earlier.

The Dodgers in return got two minor league outfielders drafted in 2024. James Tibbs III, the 13th pick in 2024 out of Florida State, was traded for the second time this season, He also went from the Giants to the Red Sox in the Rafael Devers trade in June. Zach Ehrhard was the fourth-rounder by the Red Sox last year out of Oklahoma State. Both Tibbs and Erhardt were playing in Double-A Portland.

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