It’s that time of year when the Rays are probably in talks with lots of teams about lots of players and most of those talks won’t lead to anything at all. But this rumor is more intriguing than most because it sounds like the Dodgers and Andrew Friedman really want one of the Rays’ starting pitchers.
It started on Wednesday when Rays consigliere Ken Rosenthal reported that the Dodgers’ hope for replacing Zack Greinke could lead to them making a run at trading for Chris Archer.
A few people with connections to the Dodgers were buzzing Wednesday that the team might take a run at Archer, whom Friedman signed to an outrageously club-friendly extension while working for the Rays in April 2014.