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By The Washington Nationals acquired right-handed pitchers Sean Paul Liñan and Eriq Swan from the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for outfielder Alex Call on Thursday. Nationals Interim General Manager Mike DeBartolo made the announcement.
Liñan, 20, is Los Angeles’ №19 prospect, according to Baseball America and its №20 prospect, per MLBPipeline.com. He ranked third in the Dodgers’ system with 101 strikeouts in 74.1 innings pitched this season. He went 3–3 with a 2.78 ERA, a 1.09 WHIP and a .186 opponents’ batting average in 18 games (14 starts) between Single-A Rancho Cucamonga, High-A Great Lakes and Triple-A Oklahoma City in 2025 — his fourth professional season.
Liñan opened the season by striking out at least 10 batters in three of his first four outings. He went 2–1 with a 0.87 ERA (2 ER/20.2 IP), 40 strikeouts, four walks and a .116 opponents’ average (8-for-69) in those first four outings with Rancho Cucamonga on his way to being named California League Pitcher of the Month in April.
A native of Cartagena, Colombia, Liñan signed with Los Angeles as an international free agent on January 15, 2022. He has recorded 11.9 strikeouts per 9.0 innings, a 3.51 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a 3.73 career ERA in 50 professional outings (25 starts). Liñan went 10–4 with a 4.39 ERA and 138 strikeouts in a combined 106.2 innings across the 2023 and 2024 seasons.
Swan, 23, is the Dodgers №16 prospect according to MLBPipeline.com and №24 prospect according to Baseball America. He ranks seventh in the Dodgers Minor League system with 69.0 innings pitched and tied for seventh with 77 strikeouts this season. Overall, he is 4–3 with a 4.43 ERA and a .198 opponents’ average in 16 games (14 starts) for High-A Great Lakes this season.
Swan is one of only four Dodgers farmhands, with Liñan, to pitch at least 65.0 innings this season and hold opponents to under a .200 batting average.
A fourth round pick out of Middle Tennessee State University in the 2023 First-Year Player Draft, Swan is 4–4 with a 4.81 ERA in 29 Minor League games over the last two seasons. He has struck out 111 batters in 97.1 innings over that span.
