Dodgers Territory - Jose Iglesias, Devin Williams, and More Reliever Rumors; Jack Harris Joins!

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

LA Times beat writer Jack Harris joins Clint Pasillas to touch on all things rumors and the Los Angeles Dodgers!First, in Dodgers news, Tony Gonsolin and Ben Rortvedt are no longer with the organization (1:25). Clint dives into the latest.Right-handed relievers Raisel Iglesias (4:05) and Devin Williams have been linked to LA. Jack Harris shares his insight on the team's thinking from the GM Meetings in Las Vegas (9:50) and where things stand with a potential Williams signing (14:09). Also, thoughts on the outfield plan (16:32) for the Dodgers and their level of interest in Steven Kwan of the Guardians.Get Huel for 15% off for New Customers only with code FOUL at Huel.com/FOUL (Minimum $75 purchase)Check out DT merch at dodgersterritoryshop.comSupport Guidry's Guardian at guidrysguardian.orgFind Clint on YouTube at youtube.com/@alldodgersSubscribe to Dodgers Territory on YouTubeRate and review our podcast on Apple and SpotifySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Alana will be back on Monday mercifully. So you guys have one more day of hanging out with just me. Well, it's not going to be just me today. Got a good one lined up for you. Dodgers beat writer Jack Harris of the LA Times. He joins me in a few minutes. We're sharing some insight from the GM's meetings that have been going on in Las Vegas. And I'm also going to bombard him with a bunch of questions about reliever rumors and all that. So stay tuned. Get some thoughts into the comments as well. If I can try to get to him along the way, I will. And a reminder, while we're here, please consider subscribing to the show, give us a thumbs up, all that kind of stuff, right and review the podcast on the podcast platforms. It helps us out, preferably nice things and

80 stars. But we're trying to get to 15,000 subscribers. So only you guys can help us get there. I appreciate that. Before we get into the good stuff, we got a bit of Dodgers housekeeping to get into, and we're going to do that with the big ticket. talked about it a little bit already online on the internet so far my channel yesterday i figured we should talk about it here as well dodgers news actual news that has happened not just rumors dodgers announced a couple of roster moves a couple days ago or yesterday the first one we'll talk about is the tony gonsolent tony gonsolent no longer with the organization as we anticipated of course he was df a couple days ago when they needed to make some roster moves officially

of the organization as he elects free agency instead of an outright assignment to the minor leagues. Listen, the Dodgers, as I already said, what last week, last Monday, when talking about potential nine dudes that likely would not be back with the organization in 2026, the Dodgers have so much starting pitching depth, quality starting pitching depth that they're able to do without waiting for Tony Gonson to get healthy. Now, when Tony Gonson is healthy, we talked about this. we don't need to talk a whole lot about Tony on today's show.

But when he's healthy, he is a great pitcher. He's absolutely elite at run prevention, which is an important part of being a good pitcher. The problem is he has not been able to stay healthy all of the time, and that worked against him. If the Dodgers were able to, you know, had more roster spots to kind of stow him away, they definitely would have. But they aren't afforded that luxury. And so long to the Catman, he'll be able to sign anywhere he wants as soon as that, Well, likely before that elbow forearm is fully recovered, and I expect some sort of one-plus-one deal elsewhere. Hopefully it's a good gig for him.

Hopefully it's an opportunity for him to, you know, cement a little bit of a legacy with another ball club. But shout out to him. The other name on there, Ben RoertVett, catcher, extraordinaire, Dodger legend, fan favorite. He was claimed off waivers by the Cincinnati Reds, ending his short tenure as the backup catcher here in Los Angeles. As expected, the Dodgers are going to enter the 2026 season with Will Smith as the primary catcher. Dalton rushing is the backup. There was a little bit of some interest or intrigue amongst some folks online, wondering if Dalton maybe could be a bit of a trade chip this winter this offseason.

But pretty much the trade of Ben Roartfitt solidifies the fact that it will be Will Smith and Dalton rushing as your one and two catchers heading into next season. And hopefully Dalton rushing gets a, a little bit more opportunity to spell Will Smith. We know the regular season doesn't matter. You've got to keep Big Willie style healthy for the postseason. That's the most important part of it. The final thing I'll talk about before we welcome Jack Harris in a few minutes is, you know, the big rumor of the day we're going to call it is that the reliever market is heating up.

Unsurprising there. You're getting some GMs and some, you know, baseball executives together. They're going to be talking a little bit. But, yeah, the relief pitching market is heating up a little bit. this coming from Francis Romero. Could start to see some guys moving in the next few hours. This was from this morning. Big names, Edwin Diaz, Devin Williams.

We'll talk more about Devin Williams in a little bit. Other names we've already mentioned on the show of late, or at least online. Listen, we know the Dodgers are interested in adding a high leverage, right-handed reliever. They got a lot of lefty arms. We'll talk more about that with Jack in just a few minutes. Another one of the names from that list that was further brought up by Francis. was Jose Iglesias, a long time, like very, very, this dude has been nails over the course of his career, you know, 10 years in the show, Dodgers amongst the teams interested in signing,

Rysail Aglacius saying that one wrong, but very good, very consistent arm for the last decade, could be somebody the Dodgers could get at, I would assume, a reasonable contract. The SPN hasn't projected for a two-year, $18 million deal. Take with that what you want out of it. I do believe the front office has. its sights set a little bit higher. I'm feeling at this point Devin Williams is the number one target

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Let's go ahead, get into Rumor Has It with our guest, Jack Harris. What an entrance there. You guys know that man to my screen right. That is Jack Harris. He is a beat writer for the Los Angeles. for the LA Times. Of course, you know him as a co-host of Dodgers debate here on the internet, Bill Plashky, Dylan Hernandez, right here on the YouTube. That's right. Jack, thank you for joining me today. I appreciate it. Before we get into the fun stuff, the rumor stuff,

why you're here. How was your World Series experience, man? It was not dull. I'll tell you that. You know, it was, I mean, it's, it's, what was interesting about it is even in like the week after uh you just kind of keep replaying moments in your mind things that like little moments you didn't even think about at the time or that kind of got that brushed over with the way especially those last two games ended uh you know it's like max muncie catching like the slash bunt swing and yeah uh you know some of the some of the the offensive approach at the start of game six where they were swinging at everything and then put three runs together like there were so many little interesting things that happened and

that series that really, I think, just added to those culminating moments that you saw those last couple nights with the way those games ended, the really iconic plays. But just the whole time, all those games, you know, even at the start of the series in LA and the 18-inning game, like there was just so much jam-packed into that. And that's why even beyond the ending to me was that's what made that series so special to watch and be around as just seeing how many little things can kind of influence the course of a game in the course of a seven-game series. Yeah, I mean, Harold, it is one of the best, if not the best, world series of all time. Definitely game seven was just insane, so many moments.

I haven't taken that time to go back and rewatch it. You guys have a little less, very great vantage point there, obviously, from the press box. But you don't get to see all the little replays and all the little nuances as closely and insanely as we do when we're sitting our ass here at home in our office. But just an insane world series. highly recommend everybody go out there and watch it again, read everything that Jack and the great team at LA Times wrote about that series because, yeah, that is the story of the story of that series. There were so many stories, so many subplots, really just awesome series, glad you were able to be there. Hey, two-time World Series champ, beat writer right there. But enough BS and around here.

We've got to get into the fun stuff. I'm going to bombard you with a bunch of relief pitching questions, market questions. as I mentioned a little bit before the break. Reliever market is where the Dodgers seem to have their eyes firmly set. Makes sense. They won a World Series going with starting pitching in Yoshinobi Yamamoto doing things you're not supposed to do, especially in the modern game. There is a need for a right-handed leverage arm.

What is the pulse from that L.A. front office coming out of the GM's meetings? Yeah. You know, like with a lot of things this offseason for the team, adding to the back of the end of the bullpen is something they would like to do. It's obviously an area where they could upgrade. But it's also not one they look at as some outright need. And because of that, it's led to this, you know, you look at some of the names they're targeting Devin Williams, Ryssela Glacius. Those are guys that both have, you know, upside track records, still pretty good stuff, even at the stage of their career they're at, you know, Glacias being an older guy, Devin Williams, coming off what was a down year statistically,

but still had some good underlying stuff behind it. The question's going to be, you know, if those guys get longer term offers from other clubs, are the Dodgers going to be willing to match it? Are they going to be willing to do another contract similar to the Tanner Scott deal last off season? And it feels like the answers probably no. It feels like their preference would be to get one of those guys or maybe pivot to somebody else on the market. There's a lot of good relief talent out there, but get somebody on a shorter

term deal to mitigate some of the longer term risk because they feel like, you know, even if they don't get, you know, a Devin Williams, let's say, they still have a lot of depth. And this is going to be a theme, I think, for the whole winner is that they're going to be a little bit more selective, a little bit more targeted. And the players they go after and the kind of deals that they're probably going to be willing to do because they feel like they have a really good core in place. They know that their roster is getting older. They know that they have a farm system that, you know, is ranked among the best in baseball right now that in a couple years,

they're hoping is going to be trickling some talent up to the big league level. So this offseason is about kind of, I think, threading that needle, bolstering where they can, but doing it in a way that doesn't sacrifice a ton of long-term flexibility. And that's why they're in the spot where the relievers, where, yeah, they're going after some bigger-name guys, but probably only on shorter term kind of offers. Yeah, I want to talk more about Devin Williams in a second.

But yeah, you look at the state of the roster as a whole. You definitely look at the state of the bullpen. Things seem like they will be thin to open the season, but guys will come back. You know, you hope guys are coming back from injury, from surgeries and all that kind of stuff. There are a lot of names. There are definitely a lot of names. You add Robinson Ortiz to the left-handed side of the ledger here to protect them from the Rule 5.

but some of those guys returning from injury, Bruzdar Gratterol, Brock Stewart, Evan Phillips, Kyle Hurt, who seemed pretty much ready to go if they really needed to break gas. Glass and case of emergency, you know, just a month ago or less than that. But they have some solid options. None of those are Devin Williams.

One of the guys I wanted to focus in on here is the Bruzdar Gratterol. What's the latest with Bruzdar? Obviously, he was getting pretty close to potentially joining the team late last season. had a little bit of a setback. Is the expectation now that the bazooka will be ready to go for spring training? Yeah, Brandon Gomes said that they're hopeful he's going to have a normal offseason

and is going to be ready from the start of camp. You know, the hope last year was that he'd be able to pitch at some point during the second half. He just could never really kind of get ramped up with his shoulder and time to then get through a whole throwing program, get to a place where he could contribute in the postseason. But he's still a guy that, yeah, they look at. they have confidence in being able to be part of this mix of different options that even if they don't go out and add a more established closer type that could help lading games piece things together. I think across the board, like with the bullpen, they are expecting some bounce back performances. And he's part of that group of guys who either didn't play the way they wanted to last year or couldn't contribute because of injury that they're going to be counting on to be more productive members of that unit in 26.

Yeah, again, a lot of good options. One of the best options is currently a free agent with Devin Williams. Seems to make a lot of sense. He dropped a column yesterday touching on that interest in the Airbender. Already mentioned kind of the contract length seems to be sort of the sticking point in a number of potential deals for this team in the offseason. You think they could be willing to take a multi-year risk on somebody like Devin Williams, who just, I mean, outside of a pretty mid-end.

to rough season in New York is an elite closer, an elite arm out of the back end of the bullpen. Yeah. You know, that's one of those things that we're going to find out more as these guys' markets develop as they start to figure out what other offers they want. I think the tone that the Dodgers front office set in the way Brandon Goams talked just generally about the roster. Again, they're framing this more as he said specifically of the bullpen. You know, he didn't feel like it was quite a need as much as it was a night. to have. Now, obviously, you know, the things that they say to us at this point of the off season that you take with a lot of grains of salt. But I think it does speak to this belief that

the front office has that, look, they have a good core in place. They think their pitching staff as a whole right now is probably as good as they've ever had going into the season. Obviously, the strength of that is in the rotation. But they like their options in the bullpen. You know, they are expecting Tanner Scott to at least be somewhat better next season. They're expecting Plake Drinan to be somewhat better. I know the way that fans will react to that given the way those guys struggled this year. But also because of the way Tanner Scott struggled this year, I think it does make them a little more hesitant to give somebody, you know, a reliever, a three or four year deal just because

of the volatility that comes in that role. And because if it does go bad, it does kind of limit your options for the future. Yeah, I mean, we know this is a team. This is a front office that does not want to have to be busy or extremely active at the trade deadline. Not that they were last year. Maybe could have been, should have been a little bit more active at the deadline, but this is the best time to spend money, spend some prospects,

and hopefully get some guys that help this organization. I've kind of been saying, maybe talking myself into it at this point in the winter, it feels like a little bit of a house money type of offseason. I mean, they're coming off of winning back-to-back World Series. Some of the players they've lost didn't necessarily contribute a bunch to this title run. If the Dodgers stayed mostly quiet this winter, would you be surprised? surprised? It probably depends how you define mostly quiet. I would not be surprised if they don't go out and make a hundred million dollar free agent signing. You know, I think you've already kind of

seen that a lot of the speculation that was around them and Kyle Tucker coming into the offseason hasn't really materialized in the way some people were expecting it to just given, again, another guy that's going to command a really long contract, 10 plus years, 400 million. And I think at this point, you know, the Dodgers probably aren't in the position to maybe feel like they need to add another one of those pieces. So now they still are going to try to make moves. Like I would be surprised if they don't make some addition in the bullpen, if they don't make some addition in the outfield. I think the trade market is where you could see this team pivot to. When you look at, again, a top ranked farm system, a lot of depth with young pitching, which is,

something that's always coveted and is going to be especially so this year. You know, you start looking at teams that are going to be trying to potentially move out fielders and what they could need. There's a lot of different options that the Dodgers could line up on with teams if they're willing to move some of those younger arms to try to get, you know, somebody as good as maybe like a Brandon Donovan or Stephen Kwan, but even just, you know, you could, you could make moves for guys that even help round out the roster in a little bit more of a marginal way. So I think you'll see an offseason with some additions.

You know, they are going to do things to try to give themselves the best chance possible to win next year. But it's also not going to feel like the last two winners where, you know, they were in on basically every top free agent and held three to five press conference signings at a Dodger Stadium over the winter. Yeah, it feels like, you know, the we don't have a need. It's definitely signaling we're not going to come to other people's market for players, or at least maybe some of the free agent markets for some of the players and other teams' trade demands more so what I mean to say here. You mentioned Stephen Kwan. There was a lot of interest at the trade deadline.

It appears to be some kind of ramping up interest, or at least people are trying to put that out online so we can get some clicks out of it and all that. He seems to fit in extreme or a very obvious need that the team has in left field, presuming there's no move to send to Oscar Hernandez somewhere or shift him to left field. Pahez seems to be the center fielder at this point in time. If there is more of, if there is a move to land an outfielder, is it more likely to be maybe like a Stephen Kwan or the trade route, or do you think maybe a Cody Bellinger reunion is more on the table rather than like a Kyle Tucker playing in that market?

What's sort of your feeling of where they could, because there is a need. I don't think they go Ryan Ward and Alex Call heading into trying to go for a title three Pete. Right. Yeah, I mean, I think the trade market fits this balance between like short and long term. You know, if you add a Stephen Kwan or Brandon Donovan or I mean any of those guys, even lesser big name guys. What you're going to be adding are guys that have lower salaries and probably two to three years

of team control. That kind of lines up with what the do. Dodgers won, right? You're getting an impact player in the present, but you're preserving some of that long-term flexibility. You're keeping spots open for this wave of young talent you have coming up in the next couple of years that you hope is going to be, I mean, they are very excited about this. Like, it's a big reason why the Dodgers, even with all the talent, they've dealt away over the last couple of years, still has such a highly regarded farm system. So I think the trade route does help. But they're not going to completely ignore the free agent market. You know, Cody Bellinger is a slightly different, prospect, free agent prospect than a Kyle Tucker because he could eventually slide to first base if you signed him. You know, it's just, it's a guy that, you know, when you look at the longer term risk and, and, and flexibility he provides, it'd be a little bit different. I still don't know how realistic it would be to see him come back. But it's another name out there. You know, Harrison Bader is another guy.

If you're looking at a smaller name guy who you could get as a free agent on a shorter term deal as somebody that, they looked at at the trade deadline as well. So there's a lot of different routes they could go. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of different things they explore. I think with where they're at right now, the easiest fit to see is them finding some kind of deal on the trade market. But they're going to keep their options open and explore things. And like they do every winner, see how the markets develop for various players and

try to put themselves in position to strike if they think that there's a deal that they value. Final one I got for you here before I let you escape. Two names, key contributors to this Dodgers run over the last two years of World Series dominance. Kike Hernandez, Miguel Rojas, both free agents. I'm kind of going back and forth on whether or not there's definitely a heart and soul need for both of those guys to return. I don't know that the roster right now seems to fit both of them returning, especially with guys like Alex Freeland still being around, them wanting to get something out of Hessan Kim. Now Ryan Ward on the roster.

What's kind of your feeling of where the organization and the relationship with Kike and Miguel Rojas, like could they both return? Do you think it's a one return sort of situation? What are you thinking? Yeah, I mean, it is a difficult dynamic to work through because of all the things you just said. They have been so valuable, not just in the clubhouse and as veteran leaders, but directly on the field during the last couple of octobers. and even if you're guessing that you're probably not going to get a ton of production out of them in the regular season,

knowing that those are guys that you can count on to deliver in big moments in the playoffs is a really valuable thing for a team that's judged based on how it does in October. So I think that there is still an interest in trying to bring them back if it makes sense. I think the way you've seen this play out with Kike, the last couple off seasons is the Dodgers make their moves. They kind of wait around. He waits around, sees what they do. They wait around, see kind of how his market develops. And then at the end of the winter, if there's still a route or path for him to come back and have a role on the team, they've been able to hammer out deals.

And I would imagine with both these guys, you probably see something similar to that. The Dodgers are going to cast a wide net right now, try to figure out a little more specifically, okay, what is their roster going to look like? Who are the other pieces they're going to add? And then, you know, if they have roles to bring Kike and Miggy Row back, I think they would love to do that because they understand how valuable they are. But before they do that, they're going to see how the rest of this winter kind of plays out first. Would be my guess, you know, similar to what we've seen in the last couple of years.

Yeah, it should be definitely an interesting, maybe less interesting offseason than what we've seen over the last couple of winters. But still, intriguing nonetheless. And, of course, we'll be covering what you and all of the cohorts over at the L.A. Times are doing. Jack, I appreciate the time here on the Thursday. Give him a follow by Jack Harris on the Twitter, X, whatever you want to call it. And yeah, we'll talk soon, my friend. Thank you much.

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We're going to get into Last Licks. Doing this for Alana, who will be back, of course, on Monday. But I'm excited to, I just really want Chip to be adopted. There wasn't an adoption while Alana's been on vacation. Sunny got adopted. So that is super cool. We appreciate whoever adopted. I don't know who did it, but I'm going to hit that applause button for Sunny being adopted.

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You can help Alana out. They have a bunch of dogs right now that need homes. They need the right home. So do check that out. We're trying to get as many dogs as we can. good homes. Good boys deserve good homes. So we'd appreciate it if you consider Chip or anybody else over there at giddreysgarden.org. Um, I had a baseball thought for the road. Something probably dumb, something that could potentially get us in trouble, but whatever. I'm sure some

people saw today that the San Diego Padres are, quote, evaluating a future, you know, ownership. what is it? I lost all the words there. Future with the Padres. They're in the process. I probably should just read what's on the screen here. John Seidler, the chairman, announced that they are deciding a process of evaluating future with the Padres and potentially looking. This is the point we're getting to.

Eventually looking to sell the team, sell the franchise, just two years removed from Peter Seidler, passing away. we knew at some point this Padre's organization, that Padres organization would become an absolute shit show and with all of those contracts, with all of the drama going on with ownership in the front office and things with Peter Seiler's girlfriend and the brothers that own the team and all of this. Just drama, drama issues.

They invested, Peter invested a lot of money into aging stars and those stars are getting older and older and still worth a butt ton of money with like a U. Darvish who's out for next year. Mani Machado, who, you know, is selectively a fan of hustle, Xander Bogartz, all of these guys, Jake Croninworth, the weird deal that he got. You know, you could see this team. You could see that organization start to get desperate to move some payroll. I've seen a few names mentioned, or so a few people mentioned the idea of Fernando Tatis,

Junior being traded, maybe him being a Dodger. I don't know how I feel about Nando being a Dodger. He's a hell of a right fielder. Maybe him playing with some quality leadership would help him out. I doubt the Padres and Dodgers come together on a deal. But still, it's just, it's funny, it's sad, but probably more funny just towards Padres fans that this could be happening. Who knows if they bring in investors, however it works out.

I just wanted to talk about something different than the Dodgers for a second here in our baseball thought for the road. Mark is saying the Padres just cannot get their act together. He's in San Diego and we'll love to see them get going. We've said it here a bunch of times. The Dodgers are better when other teams in the NL West are better. You hope the Giants find a way to get a little bit better. You hope the Padres find a way to figure some things out. You hope the debacks get back on track from where they were in 2023 because that forces the Dodgers.

to get even better. So yeah, that's about it. Marcus also says Tatis would not fit in. Yeah, I really can't see that. Mike, bringing up the Frank McCourt era. Still shudder every time I think about the Dodgers being owned by Frank McCourt. But that's it. I just wanted to touch on that for a little bit here on the way out.

Guys, thank you for watching this edition of Dodgers territory. Big thank you to Jack Harris filling in for Alana, giving us some insight today. Alana Rizzo will be back on Monday. So fear not. it will be fun to get Riz back and we can finally get her thoughts about the World Series

that she watched most of Game 7 on a plane which is unfortunate but on the way out guys if we can smash that like button subscribe to the channel all that kind of stuff trying to get to 15,000 subscribers

we're not very far away maybe we could do that by Monday if you guys go insane otherwise just thank you for being here we'll see you on Monday buy some stuff on the way out to Dodger territory shop.com all right that's enough plugging stuff

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