The Los Angeles Dodgers are already the team to beat in Major League Baseball, but a new trade rumor suggests they could become nearly unbeatable—and that has the rest of the league bracing for what one analyst calls a "nightmare scenario."

According to Christopher Kline of Fansided.com, the Dodgers have been linked to a potential trade with the New York Mets for All-Star right-hander Freddy Peralta. For a team that has won back-to-back World Series titles and boasts the best record in baseball, adding a pitcher of Peralta's caliber would be a devastating blow to the competition.

"This is the nightmare scenario," Kline writes, noting that injuries and underperformance in the Dodgers' rotation create a clear incentive for the front office to be aggressive. With Blake Snell still on the injured list, and both Roki Sasaki (5.97 ERA) and Emmett Sheehan (4.79 ERA) struggling mightily, Los Angeles has room to upgrade—even for a team that already looks stacked.

Peralta, a two-time All-Star, is having another stellar season with a 3.12 ERA. If the Mets decide to sell—a real possibility if they can't turn their season around quickly—there may be no worse landing spot for the rest of baseball than the defending champions.

From a purely baseball standpoint, the move makes perfect sense for the Dodgers. Tyler Glasnow is banged up, and there are questions about how Blake Snell and Shohei Ohtani will hold up over a full season. Adding Peralta would give Los Angeles a rotation of Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Peralta, Ohtani, Snell, and Glasnow—easily the best five-man group in the sport. That doesn't even include Sasaki, Sheehan, or Justin Wrobleski, who has been dominant with a 1.25 ERA.

For Dodgers fans, this trade would be a dream. For the other 29 teams? It's the kind of move that makes you hope the Mets turn things around fast—before Peralta ends up in Dodger blue.