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Dodger Blue > Rumors > MLB Trade Rumors: Dodgers Unlikely To Trade Catching Prospect Will Smith For Giants’ Will Smith
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MLB Trade Rumors: Dodgers Unlikely To Trade Catching Prospect Will Smith For Giants’ Will Smith

Austin Green
July 11, 2019
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San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Will Smith
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Will Smith may already be part of rookie walk-off history, but the young Los Angeles Dodgers catching prospect is not the only Major Leaguer to share a name with the movie star.

MLB’s other Will Smith is the veteran closer for the rebuilding San Francisco Giants. That Smith is a prime candidate to be dealt before the July 31 trade deadline and, in an incredibly ironic twist of fate is a perfect fit for what the Dodgers seemingly lack in their bullpen.

Smith is a left-hander with years of back-end bullpen experience. The Dodgers, as great as they were in the first half of 2019, have nobody like him on their current roster. Late-innings stalwarts Kenley Jansen and Pedro Baez are right-handed, as is Joe Kelly.

The Dodgers’ best left-handed reliever, Julio Urias, has been used primarily in a long relief role as the team closely monitors the former phenom’s innings workload.

Scott Alexander, meanwhile, remains sidelined with a forearm injury and has struggled against left-handed hitters anyway. Caleb Ferguson has yet to replicate last year’s success

So could Dodgers deal for the veteran reliever who would be a perfect fit for them, and make some baseball trivia nerd’s pipe dream of a double Will Smith trade come true?

Although the Dodgers reportedly have interest in Smith and other top Giants relievers, they are considered unlikely to do a swap of the namesakes, per MLB.com’s Jon Morosi:

Would the Dodgers trade Will Smith … for Will Smith? Sources say no.

Whether the longstanding rivalry between the Dodgers and Giants hurts the chances of a trade remain to be seen. However, new Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi has publicly stated he would be open to discussing a trade with his former boss and current Dodgers counterpart, Andrew Friedman.

Friedman reportedly feels the same way about working with his old general manager on a deal. However, it is not surprising that Friedman would want to hold onto the Dodgers’ Will Smith in a trade for the other Smith — or anyone else, for that matter.

Friedman heaped praise on the young catcher during Spring Training, saying at the time could already be Gold-Glove caliber defensively and just needed to work on his hitting.

Two very successful stints in the Major Leagues thus far, which include two walk-off home runs, indicate that Smith’s bat may be big league ready. Smith also represented the Oklahoma City Dodgers in Wednesday night’s Triple-A All-Star game.

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ByAustin Green
Austin Green is a journalism student at Biola University. He grew up in a family of diehard Los Angeles Dodgers and Los Angeles Lakers fans, and has been blogging about sports since 2014. He has been at Medium Large since 2018, contributing mainly to DodgerBlue.com. Austin has also worked as a digital production intern at NBC Los Angeles and as sports editor and managing editor of The Chimes, Biola's award-winning student newspaper. When not doing homework or watching and writing about sports, Austin enjoys volunteering at local church and missions organizations, going to the beach or coffee shops, and working on his horribly broken jump shot.
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