Dodgers could break baseball by trading with Mets, but New York shouldn’t trade with Los Angeles

Dodgers could break baseball by trading with Mets, but New York shouldn’t trade with Los Angeles originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . As I've said over the past few years, the Los Angeles Dodgers are very scary because, at any moment, Andrew Friedman can dip into his farm system and make a blockbuster deal.

The Dodgers have one of the best farm systems in baseball, and while some teams might not want to trade some of their top players to Los Angeles, if a team has the best return, that's often where a star player goes. There's a lot to think about for a team like the New York Mets when potentially trading with Los Angeles, but if New York believes it has an opportunity to get better in the future because of some of the Dodgers prospects, anything is possible. That's why the latest idea of the Dodgers trading for Freddy Peralta really wouldn't be the craziest idea.

In fact, it makes a lot of sense if the Dodgers were to be interested because they probably believe they can sign him at the end of the year or extend him before he reaches free agency. “This is the nightmare scenario, but with Blake Snell still on the IL — and with Rōki Sasaki and Emmet Sheehan both struggling immensely — there's incentive for the Dodgers to be aggressive. And at $8 million, Peralta hardly breaks the bank for baseball's richest team.

“The Dodgers would be in prime position to re-sign Peralta, and maybe to target Tarik Skubal while they're at it. This is the dystopian hellscape the other 29 MLB teams have created with their financial reservations. In addition to an endless revenue stream, the Dodgers are equipped with arguably the deepest farm system in baseball.