{"id":162141,"date":"2025-07-09T01:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/162141\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T01:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:14:12","slug":"dodgers-to-recall-alexis-diaz-for-team-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/162141\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers To Recall Alexis D\u00edaz For Team Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dodgers are calling up right-hander Alexis D\u00edaz<\/a>, reports Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic<\/a>. The former Reds closer was acquired in a trade earlier this year but has been in the minors since that deal. He is on the 40-man roster, so the Dodgers will only need to make a corresponding active roster move to open a spot.<\/p>\n

D\u00edaz will get his first look in Dodger blue. L.A. acquired the 2023 All-Star from Cincinnati in late May. It was essentially a salary dump for the Reds. The Dodgers agreed to cover the nearly $3MM remaining on D\u00edaz\u2019s $4.5MM salary for this season. Between that and the associated 110% luxury tax figure, it was a sizable bet on a rebound. D\u00edaz had given up eight runs with more walks than strikeouts through his first six MLB innings this year. He was pitching in Triple-A at the time of the trade.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers opted for a complete reset, assigning D\u00edaz to their Arizona complex for a couple weeks. They presumably felt they could iron out some kind of repertoire or mechanical issues before sending him back to a minor league affiliate. He has been at Triple-A Oklahoma City for the past two weeks. The results haven\u2019t been any better, as he\u2019s allowed five runs while issuing seven walks and hitting two more batters in only 4 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

D\u00edaz has always had below-average command, but he showed big swing-and-miss ability over his first two MLB seasons. His velocity and strikeout rate each dipped last year, though he managed a respectable enough 3.99 ERA across 56 1\/3 frames. D\u00edaz combined for 65 saves between 2023-24 but won\u2019t be in position for high-leverage work unless he begins missing bats again. He remains a project but will get a look in Dave Roberts\u2019 middle innings group, likely bumping one of\u00a0Will Klein<\/a> or\u00a0Julian Fern\u00e1ndez<\/a> back to Triple-A. D\u00edaz is trending towards a non-tender but would be eligible for arbitration for another three seasons if he pitches well enough to hold his roster spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers are calling up right-hander Alexis D\u00edaz, reports Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. The former Reds closer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1096,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-162141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-alexis-diaz","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114820629912343064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}