It felt like overkill in the offseason. The team that had everything — the defending champions — just kept layering on more and more talent and adding to a soaring payroll.

As a result, six-year pitcher Dustin May could be the odd man out. "In the last week, trade rumors have started to swirl around May, the oft-injured right-hander who is finally healthy this season — but also having an up-and-down campaign in his final year before free agency," Jack Harris wrote for the Los Angeles Times.

Lux, who has two World Series rings with the Dodgers, was made available a year after missing all of 2023 because of a knee injury when the Dodgers closed a deal with South Korean free agent second baseman Hyeseong Kim ($12.5 million, three years) a few days before sending Lux to the Reds.

Dodgers skipper Dave Roberts says he can't imagine the team would trade touted rookie catcher Dalton Rushing. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are one of the better teams in baseball, but they're going to need to make some trade deadline moves to overcome injury woes.

The Dodgers would face competition from all the usual suspects, but their greatest hurdle might be the ambitions of a rebuilding team that employs the pitcher.