Would Trading Chad Billingsley be Beneficial to the Dodgers?
[picappgallerysingle id="6301348"]Chad Billingsley is one of the more intriguing pitchers throughout baseball. At times, he’s as dominant as anyone in baseball. At other times, he’s as hittable and inconsistent as anyone in baseball. So what to do with him? Well- you have two choices. Resign him to a deal where you’re going to have to pay him A LOT of money (likely AJ Burnett type money), or trade him for large value. The Los Angeles Dodgers are obviously having some money issues with the divorce proceedings going on, they’ve recently traded quite a bit of their farm system away, leaving them wide open in that aspect, so I might make the unpopular claim here- but I believe it would be more beneficial to trade Billingsley this offseason.
Think about it- who is the ace of this Dodgers staff? Yes- Clayton Kershaw. What kind of money is he going to get? Scary to think about isn’t it? Chad Billingsley is a number 2 who pitches like a 1…or pitches like a 4. Why would you want to pay him the kind of money I suspect he’ll get, when you could take that money and go after some offense, or TWO pitchers who could really hold the fort down for some of the young talent to emerge. Everyone is on the lookout for pitching, and I think you’ll get someone to bite on this guy for quite a bit. I also have some worry with his mechanics. After breaking down some of his tape, I believe he’s got a little bit of a timing issue, which puts excess pressure on the shoulder mainly- based on his whip action. Now what this means to me is, when he plants, his arm isn’t ready to come through (at times) meaning the arm has to rush to the throwing position instead of naturally getting there on time. We’ve seen many pitchers go down with shoulder and arm injuries and some never return. This to me is a HUGE risk, and when we’re attaching 65-80 million to him- it’s not a risk I would be willing to take. Free up that money, and start restocking the farm system- that’s how I’d attack this organization
Will this happen? Who knows? Should it be talked about internally? Absolutely.
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