The Dodgers have activated left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu from the 60-day disabled list after an absence of nearly three months, the team announced this afternoon. Roster space for Ryu was created by placing Ross Stripling on the 10-day DL due to inflammation in his lower back and by transferring Tony Cingrani from the 10-day DL to the 60-day DL. Manager Dave Roberts suggests to Bill Shaikin of the L.A. Times (Twitter link) that it’s not clear whether Stripling will be ready for activation once his 10-day window is up, stating that that determination is “up for debate.”
Ryu has been out since early May after suffering a significant groin tear in which part of his muscle tore completely off the bone. Prior to incurring that gruesome injury, Ryu was in the midst of a strong start to the 2018 campaign, working to a pristine 2.12 ERA with 36 strikeouts against 10 walks through 29 2/3 frames. He’ll join Clayton Kershaw, recently activated lefty Alex Wood, Rich Hill and Walker Buehler in the Los Angeles rotation for the time being.
Stripling, like fellow righty Kenta Maeda, had recently been shifted to a bullpen role despite generally strong results in the rotation this season. The L.A. relief corps has been nothing short of disastrous lately, with multiple relievers struggling since Kenley Jansen hit the disabled list due to an irregular heartbeat. His absence will make Roberts’ job even more difficult as he tries to piece together the team’s late innings in light of the ongoing struggles throughout the ’pen.
As for Cingrani, while his transfer to the 60-day disabled list clouds the lefty’s timeline for a return, it does appear that the Dodgers expect him back at some point in 2018. Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register tweets that Roberts expressed optimism that Cingrani will be back next month, in time to help the team in the final push down the stretch. While Cingrani’s 4.84 ERA through 22 1/3 innings wasn’t particularly impressive, he did tally a brilliant 36-to-6 K/BB ratio with a 51.1 percent grounder rate in that time, prompting metrics like FIP (2.17), xFIP (2.34) and SIERA (1.90) to forecast a considerably better outlook.
F**k no
Well let’s hope Maeda can get it together in the pen like he did last post season. We need him to dominate like he did badly.
Well if the dodgers pen implodes on them they can trade for stammen and yates in the off season to sure up the pen. Idk why the dodgers didnt pull the trigger on getting yates stammen and probably another arm like erlin for a top 100 guy like will smith
Because Will Smith for those 3 would be a terrible trade. He is their starting catcher next year and thats not worth a gamble on a guy who has not been this good before. They will sign Familia or Miller in the offseason.
They probably could sign wilson ramos for cheaper than it would cost for miller. Familia shouldnt be too expensive.
Smith is in AA currently, I’m pretty sure he’s not going to start opening day. We’re going to resign grandal and have Barnes as backup next year.
They probably do need to overpay to get Grandal on a 1 year deal.
They just don’t like stripling I guess. I’m assuming he’s fine, should haven’t seen the. Pen.
Time to go back to a 14 day DL.
Question
Season players on the MLB roster assigned to the DL during the season…
Are they post season eligible ?
Yes, only if you get a PED suspension or traded after August 31st are you not postseason eligible.
If they weren’t that would leave about a dozen players per team for the playoffs.
More dumpster diving for Friedman. His lack of appropriate attention to the pen is a joke.
Ryu is dumpster diving? Lol
Don’t worry about this guy. He copies and pastes the same thing everywhere, even when it literally makes no sense.