Arizona Diamondbacks
The Arizona Diamondbacks have already swung one trade in an attempt to bolster their team by acquiring Jon Jay from the Kansas City Royals. With the Dodgers struggles to begin the season the Diamondbacks find themselves in position to pounce on the National League West and put themselves in position for a good playoff run.
The Diamondbacks currently employ an exciting player in Ketel Marte as their second baseman. The speedy infielder is batting .245/.298/.410 with a .709 OPS. He has used his speed to hit 12 doubles and 7 triples. Marte also has positional flexibility with the ability to slide over to and also play shortstop.
If Dozier came in and manned second, Marte slid over to short, that would essentially allow Dozier’s bat to replace Nick Ahmed‘s. Ahmed is only slashing .222/.277/.420 and a .697 OPS. This may not top the list of needs for the Diamondbacks, but if they are willing to gamble on Dozier hitting one of his patented hot second half streaks he would help them keep the Dodgers off their heels.
These first two teams may actually set up a best case scenario for the Twins. If two teams attempting to land the top spot in the NL West would battle each other for the services of Dozier that would only help the Twins. The Diamondbacks have time and again shown a willingness to swing a deal (and have made a trade with this Twins front office) making this an even more interesting team for the Twins to be reaching out to as a Dozier landing spot.