Buzz in Dodgers’ clubhouse: Trade for pitching

LOS ANGELES — While Wade Davis is the rumor of the day for the Dodgers’ trade targets, he’s just one name mentioned by a cross section of Dodgers players who generally believe management should focus on acquiring a starting pitcher by Monday’s 1 p.m. PT non-waiver Trade Deadline.

Not surprisingly, the win-now agenda in the clubhouse has players showing no hesitation trading teenage top prospect Julio Urias or underachieving outfielder Yasiel Puig if that’s what it takes to improve the current club.

“For somebody like Chris Sale or Andrew Miller?” one player said when asked if he would include Urias or Puig. “Are you kidding? Of course you make those trades. We’re trying to win, right?”

A similar canvas of the clubhouse a year ago labeled Cole Hamels as the preferred target, and holdovers are still in disbelief over management’s refusal to make that deal.

The need this year is obviously even greater because there is no Zack Greinke in the rotation — or, for that matter, a healthy Clayton Kershaw, who is out indefinitely.

The Dodgers could have folded once Kershaw went on the …

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