If you listen to a number of industry insiders, the feeling is that the Dodgers got a steal when they traded for 2017 All-Star reliever Corey Knebel on Wednesday. But that trade was never supposed to happen.
According to Robert Murray of FanSided, the right-hander and his former club in Milwaukee were working up against the non-tender deadline on a deal to keep him a Brewer. Like, literally minutes.
10 minutes before the non-tender deadline, a Brewers executive with direct knowledge of the situation said that it was “looking like Corey Knebel won’t get (a deal) done” and that a non-tender appeared imminent.