Dodgers linked to trade for Mets All-Star pitcher that would be 'nightmare scenario' for MLB

The Los Angeles Dodgers are the best team in Major League Baseball until proven otherwise, whether it's missing the postseason or being eliminated before winning a third-straight World Series title.

They have the inside track to the World Series, and it's thanks in part to their elite starting rotation that is still fantastic despite the team's injury issue with Tyler Glasnow. But it could get a whole lot worse for the rest of baseball.

Christopher Kline of Fansided.com linked the Dodgers to a trade with the New York Mets for righty All-Star Freddy Peralta. With the Dodgers already the best in baseball, this would be a disaster for MLB.

"This is the nightmare scenario, but with Blake Snell still on the IL - and with Roki Sasaki and Emmett Sheehan both struggling immensely - there's incentive for the Dodgers to be aggressive," Kline writes.

If the Mets trade Peralta, which is a very real possibility if they can't turn things around ASAP, then there might not be a worse landing spot than the Dodgers for the rest of Major League Baseball.

Dodgers would be a nightmare landing spot for Freddy Peralta

Strictly looking at how Peralta would improve the Dodgers, if they could actually pull off a trade, it would be a no-brainer for Los Angeles.

Peralta has a 3.12 ERA this season, is a two-time All-Star, and is one of the best pitchers in the sport right now. What team wouldn't want someone like that in a contending year?

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Add in that Glasnow is banged up, Sheehan has a 4.79 ERA, Sasaki's ERA is at 5.97, and there's no telling how Blake Snell and Shohei Ohtani hold up all year, and it makes perfect sense to land Peralta.

A rotation of Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Peralta, Ohtani, Snell, and Glasnow would easily be the best in baseball, and that wouldn't even include Sasaki and Sheehan or Justin Wrobleski, who has a 1.25 ERA in six outings this year.

The Dodgers are sure to be buyers at this year's trade deadline, and if Peralta is available for the right price, he makes perfect sense as a trade candidate. But, for the rest of baseball, the Dodgers' landing Peralta would be a nightmare scenario.

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