After the Dodgers managed to trick the Red Sox into giving them two outfield prospects (two top prospects, at that) in exchange for Dustin May at the trade deadline, May said in his first media scrum in Boston, "I was kind of pushed out. We had quite a few guys in that organization."
Yeah, man. Maybe you were pushed out because you were ... pretty bad?
Shohei Ohtani returned to the mound in June, Tyler Glasnow came off of the IL in early July, Blake Snell followed right after the trade deadline, Yoshinobu Yamamoto had been healthy and thriving all season, and the Dodgers were favoring Emmet Sheehan over May as a starter in the weeks leading up to the deadline.