The Dodgers have placed right-hander Dustin May on the 15-day injured list due to lower back tightness. The team also announced that righty Andre Jackson was called up from Triple-A to take May’s spot on the active roster.
May is now ineligible to pitch again during the regular season, though his postseason availability could hinge on his health. Since Los Angeles already has a bye in the first round, May will get some extra time to rest and recover before the Dodgers have to make their roster decisions for the NLDS. Jack Harris of the Los Angeles Times reports that May has a strained muscle in his lower back, and it isn’t yet known if the strain will impact his readiness for the playoffs, but the Dodgers are hopeful May will be ready.
May has already missed a lot of time with injury over the last two seasons, due to a Tommy John surgery back in May 2021. The right-hander made it back to action in August, and has a 4.50 ERA, 22.8% strikeout rate, and 11% walk rate over 30 innings in 2022. While these numbers are nothing to write home about, May’s velocity and spin rates are all still looking good in the wake of his TJ rehab.
The regular season has been a rousing success for the Dodgers, but they now face more pitching uncertainty as the playoffs loom. Tony Gonsolin has a minor league rehab start scheduled for Tuesday after missing a month due to a forearm strain, so the All-Star could be on his way back to action, though nothing will be certain until Gonsolin gets onto the mound. Ideally, Julio Urias, Clayton Kershaw, and Gonsolin would be the Dodgers’ top three starters in a playoff series, with Tyler Anderson likeliest for fourth starter duty. Andrew Heaney, May, or rookie Michael Grove would be lined up for long relief or emergency-starter depth, but as we’ve seen from past postseasons, the Dodgers are generally pretty flexible with pitcher roles in big games.
Price is gonna be slotted into the rotation soon I bet. I bet they give him a start asap to see how he looks and see how far he can go.
There is no way he is stretched out to start right now.
Urias..Anderson..Heaney Kershaw… Who else they got to start post season games? They can’t ride those 4 all through the WS.
I think 4 starters would be enough, but I don’t think Heaney will be the 4th guy unless they use him as an “opener”. He’s shown over the last month that he is great one time through the order and after that is like walking in a minefield. I think the plan is to have May ready to go come playoff time and then use him and Heaney to piggy-back each other.
** and to hear Roberts talk today, Gonsolin is probably an option for a couple innings too.
Probably a combo of Gonsolin and Heaney since neither of them are good for more than a few innings at this point.
Why not? What championship team has needed/used 5 starters in recent years? Price isn’t even close to their next best option and 10 days isn’t near enough time to stretch him out anyways.
Under the old format, three starters might be enough, but this year with one less off-day in the DS and CS teams will probably plan on four. Price isn’t even pitching now. The Dodgers would be fortunate to have him available as a reliever. The chances he even makes the NLDS roster are probably less than 50-50.
He’s on the 15 day DL so…
Tyler Anderson should be starting before Gonsolin. He’s been the most reliable out of everyone. He never got shelled, missed time for injury or skipped a start for “load management.” Anderson has been Mr. Consistent & Dependable which gets overlooked because of the lack of flash,
I would say minus his stint on the IL, Gonsolin has been the most dependable this year. You can’t argue with only 1 loss. In any case, Roberts just talked about him and he is pretty much going to be an “opener” anyway. There is gonna be room enough for all to pitch this time around..
Never got shelled, huh? He gave up 7 runs to Philly, 5 to SF, 4 to various teams…
Thinking is hard!
Why don’t you post times and dates? Thinking isn’t hard but taking your word for it is.
Yeah, why google his game log when you could post a pointless complaint instead? Not here to appease you, dummy. You really care what “time” of day it happened? LOL
You are making the argument about Gonsolin. I am calling on you to support it with game logs. It’s not my responsibility to make your arguments for you. Nobody ought to believe you just because you say so. Doing so would be the only thing more idiotic than how you are presenting your argument.
Gonsolin? My comment was about Tyler Anderson. He has, in fact, been shelled. Look at his game log. Convo over.
Apparently, so is civility. The venom is strong in you. Must have been beaten when you were a kid.
Beaten? LOL. Where do you people come up with this stuff? Just take the L & move on.
Anonymity breeds confidence. Boy, your personality sucks.
Apparently it also breeds stupidity, as we saw in your original post…back to mommy’s breast you go.
You’ve just proven my points.
Gonsolin was in the CY discussion when he got hurt
Tyler Anderson was not close.
Anyone know of a stat that shows a pitchers “average run support per game?”
Urias is 2nd and Anderson is 5th, respectively, in average run support per game.
A website called oddsshark.com does list average run support per game for pitchers
Thanks Rsox
Mega bust. Time to trade him or release.
You know he’ll play nearly all of next year at age 25, right? He got hurt. That means he’s a bust?
Next year is just Arb1 for May.
All of a sudden, the once invincible Dodgers, aren’t looking a whole lot better than the other NL teams that figure to make the October dance party. Dunno. Maybe playing with a big division league for the entire season has them like a HS senior in his last semester before graduation? Senioritis has set in. They know the real challenge starts in about two weeks and I believe they are anxious to get that party started.
Don’t much care if Kimbrel is out as the closer. The front office put some serious talent to pitch ahead of him, and that depth will now pay off in spades as one or more of them will jump up a notch and be asked to close out a game.
Might not look pretty now, but when their real season begins, they’ll be ready. JMHO, but looks like an Astros vs. Dodgers WS unless that Cardinal “devil magic” rears its ugly head.
It’s going to be Jays-Mets.
JMO, but now that Pujols has reached 700, and the league has made its money off of the chase, the agreement was that he has to back off the “supplements” he’s been taking. So, I don’t think the Cardinals will be the same threat as they are now. Although Goldschmidt and Arenado are a formidable duo. .
Padres- Mariners would be cool as neither has a WS.
MLB playoff series are coin tosses.
People do say this a lot, but the implication that playoff results are totally random is wrong. The reality is any team can get hot or run cold at any time during the regular or postseason.
Rammstein was amazing!
Parking at the Colosseum was not.