Dodgers trade prospect Jose Dominguez to Rays for Joel Peralta, Adam Liberatore.

Joel  Peralta

Joel Peralta made 69 appearances for the Tampa Bay Rays last season. (Getty Images)

The Dodgers acquired veteran right-hander Joel Peralta and left-hander Adam Liberatore from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for pitchers Jose Dominguez and Greg Harris.

The trade immediately shuffles the Dodgers’ bullpen pecking order without dramatically impacting the projected 25-man roster. Peralta regularly appeared in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings last season for the Rays and would become the primary set-up man if he keeps the role with the Dodgers. Liberatore could challenge Paco Rodriguez for innings as a left-handed specialist in 2015.

Peralta has appeared in at least 69 games each of the last four seasons in Tampa (3.58 ERA). The 38-year-old is signed for $2.5 million in 2015, with $2.5 million team options for 2016 and 2017.

In 2012, Peralta was suspended eight games for having pine tar in his mitt. Despite this, he’s managed to pitch in more games since 2011 than any major-league pitcher (296, an average of 74 appearances per season).

Liberatore, 27, is a native of Bellflower who posted a 1.66 ERA in 54 appearances, all out of the bullpen, for the Rays’ Triple-A affiliate. He ranked second among all International League pitchers in strikeouts per nine innings (11.9), second in ERA and third in appearances. He was not on the Rays’ 40-man roster but was added to the Dodgers’ 40-man roster, which is now full.

Here is video of Liberatore facing Jacoby Ellsbury in a 2013 spring training game.

Dominguez, 24, was on the Dodgers’ 40-man roster. Signed as an amateur free agent in 2007, he impressed many radar guns the last few years. But he had been passed on the depth chart among right-handed relievers by Pedro Baez, Carlos Frias, Yimi Garcia and Chris Withrow, who will be attempting to return from Tommy John surgery in 2015.

Dominguez spent most of last season at Triple-A Albuquerque. In five major-league games last season he allowed eight runs (11.37 ERA).

Harris, 20, was a 17th-round draft pick in 2013 out of Los Alamitos High School. The right-hander appeared in 22 games (16 starts) at low-A Great Lakes in 2014.

The Dodgers and Rays hadn’t swapped players since July 31, 2006, when the Dodgers acquired Julio Lugo for a pair of fringe 40-man roster players, infielder Joel Guzman and outfielder Sergio Pedroza.

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