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Report: Dodgers aggressively pursuing Brian Dozier in trade with Twins

The Los Angeles Dodgers have yet to make that big off-season splash that has come to define the defending NL West champions over the past several winters.

Some of that could have to do with a less- than-stellar financial situation he team finds itself in. Though, we’re still pretty sure that Los Angeles will add a big name or two before spring comes calling. It might just have to get a tad creative.

It’s in this that at least one report is suggesting that the Dodgers are aggressively pursuing Minnesota Twins second baseman Brian Dozier.

We haven’t really heard too much about Dozier being on the trade block. And in reality, acquiring him would likely take a massive package of prospects.

Signed through 2018 on a four-year, $20 million deal, Dozier is coming off a 2016 campaign that saw him hit 42 homers and rack up 82 extra-base hits for the Twins. With that type of production and playing under a team-friendly contract, it makes little sense that Minnesota might look to move Dozier.

Of course, that thought process is under the guise of the Twins not receiving an offer they couldn’t possibly refuse.

With the likes of Julio Urias, Jose De Leon, Cody Bellinger and Alex Verdugo coming up through the farm, Los Angeles has the necessary assets to acquire someone of Dozier’s ilk. It just remains to be seen whether the team would part with such high-upside young talent.

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