Red Sox might already regret another trade with Dodgers
James Tibbs III was named the Pacific Coast League Player of the Week on April 6 after a monster debut with the Triple-A Oklahoma City Comets. MORE: Dodgers make decision about Mookie Betts’ injury Tibbs, an outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ top farm team, is slashing . 474/.
535/1. 184 through his first nine games of the 2026 season. That outsized slash line is the result of seven home runs and 13 RBIs in his first 38 at-bats.
Tibbs’ name is already familiar to Boston Red Sox fans. The Red Sox acquired Tibbs, the 13th overall pick in the 2024 MLB Draft, from the San Francisco Giants in the Rafael Devers trade in June 2025. Less than two months later, they turned around and traded Tibbs and minor league outfielder Zach Ehrhard to the Dodgers for pitcher Dustin May.
The Red Sox let May walk in free agency over the winter. Meanwhile, Tibbs is showing Boston why he was a first-round draft pick less than two years ago. MORE: Dodgers’ $102 million bust signs with surprising New York team The Dodgers simply have no room for Tibbs in an outfield that includes former Silver Slugger Award winner Teoscar Hernandez in left field, four-time All-Star Kyle Tucker in right and Andy Pages — their best hitter to start the season — in center.
When shortstop Mookie Betts suffered a back injury over the weekend, the Dodgers called up Hyeseong Kim from Oklahoma City to take his place. The only thing preventing Tibbs from being promoted was the misfortune of being an outfielder. Five years after getting future Betts in a trade that sent three players to Boston — only one of whom, backup catcher Connor Wong, is still with the Red Sox — the Dodgers appear to have swiped a future MLB star from Boston’s farm system.