The Los Angeles Dodgers made their long-anticipated splash minutes before Major League Baseball’s annual trade deadline Tuesday, acquiring ace right-hander Jack Flaherty from the Detroit Tigers and outfielder Kevin Kiermaier from the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Dodgers will send prospects Thayron Liranzo, 21, and Trey Sweeney, 24, to the Tigers for Flaherty, and veteran left-hander Ryan Yarbrough to the Jays, FanSided reported. The full terms of each deal were not yet known.
Flaherty, 28, provides a necessary boost to a Los Angeles starting rotation weakened by injuries. Flaherty is 7–5 with a 2.95 earned-run average through 18 starts this year, with 133 strikeouts and just 19 walks in 106 2/3 innings. He is a product of Harvard-Westlake High School in Los Angeles.
It is the second straight year that Flaherty has been moved at the deadline. The St. Louis Cardinals shipped him to the contending Baltimore Orioles last summer. He signed a one-year, $14 million contract with Detroit in December.
Kiermaier, 34, was in his second season with the Blue Jays following a 10-year run with the Tampa Bay Rays. He is batting just .195 through 81 games this season, with four home runs and 18 RBIs. The four-time Gold Glove award winner is a career .246 batter with 94 homers, 370 RBIs, and 131 stolen bases in 1,124 games.
Yarbrough, 32, is 4–2 with one save, a 3.74 ERA, 39 strikeouts, and 25 walks in 67 1/3 innings over 32 relief appearances for the Dodgers this season. In parts of seven seasons with the Rays (2018–22), Kansas City Royals (2023) and Dodgers (2023–24), Yarbrough is 52–40 with three saves and a 4.30 ERA in 184 games, including 68 starts.
