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Acquiring another right-handed bat will likely be a need for the Dodgers before next month’s trade deadline. On Thursday, however, they took a chance on a veteran free agent to fill the hole first.
The team agreed to a major league deal with outfielder Jake Marisnick, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation unauthorized to speak publicly.
It’s not a big-name signing, adding a 32-year-old journeyman with a career .228 batting average, and below-league-average .672 on-base-plus-slugging percentage in 42 games this season.
Still, Marisnick will bring 11 seasons of MLB experience and a strong defensive track record in center fielder with him to the Dodgers, whose only two current right-handed hitting outfielders are Mookie Betts (who has been splitting time in the infield this season) and Jonny DeLuca (a rookie who has seven hits in 33 at-bats).
Marisnick has two notable connections to the Dodgers.
A Riverside Poly product, he was teammates with catcher Austin Barnes in high school more than a decade ago.
In 2017, Marisnick was a member of the infamous Houston Astros team that was later revealed to be illegally stealing signs — though he wasn’t on the active roster for their World Series victory over the Dodgers that postseason.
Since being traded by Houston in 2019, Marisnick has bounced around the league. He played for the New York Mets in 2020, then had part-time stops with the Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres in 2021, and the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago White Sox the last two seasons. He was designated for assignment by the Detroit Tigers last week.
He has never been a strong hitter (his best offensive year was in 2017, when he hit 16 homers and had an .815 OPS) but could provide important value defensively to the Dodgers, who rank third-worst in the majors in defensive runs saved in center field, where rookie James Outman has gotten the bulk of the playing time.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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