Pitcher Jack Flaherty of the Los Angeles Dodgers had a significant role in the Dodgers’ 2024 World Series victory. However, his time in Los Angeles might be coming to an end after he has been with the organization for half a season.

Shohei Ohtani and Dustin May are expected to return from injury, and Blake Snell will be signed by the Dodgers to complete their starting pitching rotation. Flaherty’s $80 million contract with the Dodgers just cannot be signed with this. According to a recent prediction by Christopher Kline of FanSided, the Dodgers star might turn on Los Angeles and sign with the Atlanta Braves. After losing Charlie Morton and Max Fried this winter, the Braves are trying to reassemble their starting rotation.

“If Atlanta is truly willing to spend aggressively on the free agent market, Jack Flaherty is an obvious target,” Kline stated. “The Dodgers literally didn’t make it to the pinnacle without Flaherty last season, despite his convoluted postseason record. In October, when Clayton Kershaw, Tyler Glasnow, and other players were sidelined by injuries, he put together a patchwork rotation.

“At 29, Flaherty is most likely underappreciated right now. His reputation has been unjustly damaged by a difficult second half of the 2023 campaign in Baltimore. With a 3.17 ERA at the end of the previous season and 194 strikeouts in 164.0 innings pitched, Flaherty was essentially unstoppable.

Flaherty’s skills would be extremely beneficial to the Braves. There aren’t many elite starters in Atlanta. If the Braves don’t replace Fried and Morton with players of the same caliber or better, losing them will eliminate their prospects of contending for a World Series.