Dodgers designate four players for assignment to clear room for new acquisitions.

Brandon Beachy

Brandon Beachy allowed four runs in four innings against the Braves in his last start for the Dodgers. (Associated Press photo)

Pitcher Brandon Beachy, pitcher Chin-Hui Tsao, outfielder Chris Heisey and first baseman/outfielder Mike Morse have been designated for assignment in a flurry of moves designed to clear room on their 40-man roster following the three-team megatrade completed earlier today.

Beachy, Tsao and Heisey were all at Triple-A Oklahoma City. Morse was one of the players acquired in the trade that brought Alex Wood, Mat Latos, Jim Johnson, Luis Avilan and minor league utilityman Jose Peraza to Los Angeles.

Per MLB rules, the Dodgers were required to amend their 40-man roster today. They won’t have to adjust their 25-man roster until the new players report, which could be as late as tomorrow afternoon.

The Dodgers play the Angels at 7 p.m. Friday. The non-waiver trade deadline is 1 p.m.

Tsao was a reclamation project, a right-handed reliever who rediscovered a mid-90s fastball after five years away from the game. Considering he wasn’t so much as invited to spring training, the Dodgers were lucky to get five appearances from him (even if he did allow six runs his last time out).

Heisey spent the first five years of his career as the Reds’ fourth outfielder, but only had four hits in 26 at-bats with the Dodgers. At Triple-A, Heisey hit for power and walked a lot, but with Carl Crawford returning from the disabled list earlier this month it was hard to see him making an impact unless another major injury struck.

While it isn’t hard to imagine Tsao and Heisey going unclaimed on the waiver wire, Beachy is a more curious case.

At 28 years old and coming off Tommy John surgeries in 2012 and 2014, Beachy probably had more to give the Dodgers than the two starts he made earlier this month. That’s why the Dodgers felt comfortable giving him a two-year contract, worth up to $6 million in incentives in 2016 and up to $8.75 million total.

We’ll know within 10 days whether Beachy is now willing to accept an assignment to the minor leagues or if the Dodgers are willing to trade him elsewhere. Wood is under team control for another four years. Arroyo, Clayton Kershaw and Hyun-Jin Ryu are all expected back next year, so no one is blocking Beachy’s path to a 2016 rotation spot at the moment — unless Zack Greinke doesn’t exercise the opt-out in his contract and sign elsewhere.

As for Morse, he never played a game in a Dodgers uniform. His contract runs through 2016 and had about $11 million remaining, including the pro-rated remainder from this season. That would appear to be the price the Marlins charged for acquiring Latos and their compensatory round draft pick (currently 35th overall), which the Dodgers flipped to the Braves to get Wood, Peraza, Arroyo, Johnson and Avilan.