The NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers acquired right-hander Jack Flaherty from the Detroit Tigers just before the trade deadline to bolster their rotation and also obtained four-time Gold Glove Award-winning center fielder Kevin Kiermaier from the Toronto Blue Jays.
The NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers acquired right-hander Jack Flaherty from the Detroit Tigers just before the trade deadline Tuesday to bolster their rotation and also obtained four-time Gold Glove center fielder Kevin Kiermaier from the Toronto Blue Jays .The 28-year-old Flaherty, who is from the Los Angeles area, was 7-5 with a 2.95 ERA in his first season with the Tigers. He had 133 strikeouts with a 0.96 WHIP and .211 batting average against.
' Flaherty was scratched from his scheduled start against Baltimore on Monday night. Roberts said Flaherty will likely make his first start for the Dodgers during a weekend series at Oakland.Flaherty was teammates with Lucas Giolito and Max Fried at Harvard-Westlake, a prestigious prep school in Los Angeles, and was a first-round draft pick of the Cardinals in 2014. He played with the Cardinals for 6 1/2 seasons ad was traded to Baltimore last summer.
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