The Dodgers announced Tuesday that they’ve reinstated infielders Justin Turner and Logan Forsythe from the disabled list today. Fellow infielders Kyle Farmer and Tim Locastro were optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City to create room on the 40-man roster.
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Turner will take the field for the Dodgers tonight for the first time this season after missing a quarter of the season due to a broken wrist suffered late in Spring Training. In his absence, Dodgers third basemen have combined to post a woeful .209/.291/.374 batting line in 158 plate appearances. Forsythe, Farmer, and Max Muncy have combined for all of the Dodgers’ activity at third base in lieu of Turner this season, and the largely futile results have played no small role in the team’s 16-24 start to the year.
Forsythe, meanwhile, will be returning to the club after landing on the disabled list exactly a month ago due to inflammation in his right shoulder. He’ll slot back into the mix at second base and share time with veteran Chase Utley there, though he’ll be looking to rebound from a slow start that saw him bat just .174/.224/.283 in 49 trips to the plate before his own placement on the disabled list.
In other Dodgers health-related news, Andy McCullough of the L.A. Times tweets that Clayton Kershaw played catch once again today, though it doesn’t sound as if the lefty is nearing a return to the active roster. Via McCullough, manager Dave Roberts indicated that Kershaw isn’t expected to pitch off a mound on the current road trip. It’s been reported that Kershaw will miss a matter of weeks rather than months, though a specific timeline hasn’t yet been put in place on his return to a Dodgers rotation that will also be without lefty Hyun-Jin Ryu until sometime after the All-Star break.
This could be the spark the Dodgers need to go big run, and make playoffs despite Corey Seager’s season-long absence and 16-24 record.
and against a woeful team in the marlins… sure hope turner and forsythe get hot… need # 10 in the 3 hole….
Welcome back JT! Just his presence in the lineup should help get there offense going.
Annnnnd they are losing 2-1 in the 7th
Annnnd, they lost 4-2.
Won’t do anything
Losing tonight
They got swept by the reds… in 4 games. That’s the worst
In a just world, Andrew Friedman would be making his living selling bootleg DVDs on a street corner.
He went from working without a contract on the Rays, to a 5-year $35 million contract with Dodgers. In a way, A. Friedman embodies the American dream.
That just happens to be a nightmare for the rest of us.
For the first year or two of his reign the Friedman apologists were telling us we can’t grade his work because he’s “cleaning up the mess” from the previous FO. Well now that we can grade his work, the Friedman apologists are saying what, he’s the embodiment of the American Dream? Sheesh.
Glad to see these two back – can’t understand why Farmer goes down and Muncy stays up –
Well Muncy has outperformed Farmer in every aspect maybe that explanation works? No ones going to argue either are more than AAAA guys. I think many were fooled by Farmer’s ST. I mean it does Farmer no good to sit and spoil on the bench especially when he really needs to catch. But man when I see a 109 WRC v a 64 I think it’s pretty easy to see why. Plus even watching his ABs it’s hard to not argue his sparing playing time didn’t play a part.
Dodgers front office is a joke ….someone needs too get fired…what a freeken joke…just about every trade they have made from day one (Rollins) have been a bust…they r cheap scapes.. period ..
wish they whould go away..
That is definitely false, but ok.