Running a baseball team is very much so a numbers game, and even the most successful of organizations will miss on a few acquisitions throughout the course of the year, particularly those on the fringes of your 40-man roster, short-term replacements who might evolve into something bigger. For the Dodgers in 2025, one of these players was Alexis Díaz, brother of newly signed Dodger closer Edwin Díaz.

Promoted to the big leagues in 2022, Díaz worked his way into assuming the role of Reds closer, one he fulfilled through the 2024 campaign, but even prior to the start of last season, he had been showing worrisome signs. A 3.99 ERA in 2024 didn’t cost Díaz his closer gig only because the Reds didn’t have much in the way of better options at the time.

All of those saves earned Díaz a substanti

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