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Dodgers Select Justin Wrobleski

By Leo Morgenstern | July 7, 2024 at 1:01pm CDT

TODAY: The Dodgers officially announced the selection of Wrobleski’s contract today and optioned right-hander Gus Varland to make room for the lefty on the active roster. The club previously cleared a 40-man roster spot by trading lefty Matt Gage to the Mets earlier today.

July 5: The Dodgers are planning to promote left-handed pitcher Justin Wrobleski this weekend, according to a report from Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. He will make his MLB debut in a spot start on Sunday against the Brewers. Corresponding moves will be necessary for the Dodgers to add Wrobleski to the 26 and 40-man rosters.

Wrobleski, 23, has quickly risen through the Dodgers’ minor league system since making his professional debut in 2022. He made a name for himself last season at High-A, tossing 102 1/3 innings over 25 games (23 starts) with a 2.90 ERA and 3.22 FIP. That performance helped him rocket up Dodgers prospect lists ahead of the 2024 season; Baseball America ranked him #6, FanGraphs ranked him #11, and Keith Law of The Athletic ranked him #9. All three publications agreed he was the top left-handed pitching prospect in the organization.

The southpaw received a promotion to Double-A at the beginning of the 2024 season, and he continued to pitch just as well as he had the year before. In 13 starts for the Tulsa Drillers, Wrobleski put up a 3.06 ERA and 2.98 FIP, walking just 4.8% of batters he faced. After pitching what was arguably the best game of his career to date (seven shutout innings against the Arkansas Travelers), he earned another promotion.

Wrobleski has since made a couple of starts for the Triple-A Oklahoma City Baseball Club. Although his surface-level stats leave something to be desired (five earned runs in 10 1/3 innings of work), he went at least five innings in both games and struck out 17 of the 43 batters he faced.

Although Wrobleski only has two starts at Triple-A under his belt, the Dodgers seem to have decided he is ready for a new challenge. That challenge will come in the form of the NL Central-leading Brewers, who currently rank fourth in the NL with 4.8 runs scored per game. It’s no easy task, but it helps that the Brewers have struggled against left-handed pitching this season. Their offense has a .749 OPS and 114 wRC+ against righties, compared to a .679 OPS and 95 wRC+ against southpaws.

The Dodgers have lost several starting pitchers to injury the season, with Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Walker Buehler the latest casualties. The team is currently relying on Tyler Glasnow, Gavin Stone, James Paxton, Bobby Miller, and Landon Knack as the starting five, and Wrobleski’s spot start will allow those five arms to take an extra day of rest.

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24 Comments

  1. Curly Was The Smart Stooge

    1 year ago

    Great! Justin time…

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  2. Kevin Illyanovich Rasputin Kubusheskie

    1 year ago

    Biggio experiment over hopefully?

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    • BlueSkies_LA

      1 year ago

      We’d hope so, but unless Wrobleski can also play 3B, probably not.

      4
      Reply
  3. Curly Was The Smart Stooge

    1 year ago

    W_robleski
    Alex, I’d like to buy a vowel

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  4. Curly Was The Smart Stooge

    1 year ago

    Alex, I’ll take stupid for $100
    The answer is Pat, I’d like to buy a vowel
    Correct for $100
    (this is getting too hard & I’m getting too old)

    2
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    • Curly Was The Smart Stooge

      1 year ago

      Said the 3 effs

      1
      Reply
    • Ignorant Son-of-a-b

      1 year ago

      Will the electro-shock therapy session be after lunch or do we all get a nap first?

      Reply
  5. rarinaho1712

    1 year ago

    Just Robles

    Reply
  6. California 8

    1 year ago

    Maybe the Dodgers will finally win their first World Series title since 1988 sometime in the next decade or 2 or 3.

    1
    Reply
    • Kevin Illyanovich Rasputin Kubusheskie

      1 year ago

      Maybe you can come up with an original thought. Though I would gather it will take you more then 2 or 3 decades.

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      Reply
  7. highflyballintorightfield

    1 year ago

    Interesting that the move for a 6th starter wasn’t to bring back Buehler from the DL. We were told that the injury was mild and the move to the DL was a little bogus, but no news about him since then.

    Reply
    • Butter Biscuits

      1 year ago

      Looks like the Syndergaad treatment from last year

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      • douglasb

        12 months ago

        Buehler is the next Syndergaard or Matt Harvey. He might be able to give you 120 innings next year, but do you want them?

        Reply
    • UWPSUPERFAN77

      1 year ago

      You got a big lead. Dodgers playing long term.

      Reply
  8. UncommonSense

    1 year ago

    Justin time a real Browleski

    Reply
  9. THEY LIVE!!!

    1 year ago

    Dodgers need to bring back Justin Turner.

    Reply
    • UWPSUPERFAN77

      1 year ago

      NO! they have enough overpaid veterans not doing the Job. Too many to list here.

      1
      Reply
  10. Jerry Hairston Jr's Toupee

    1 year ago

    Throwaway game….

    1
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    • Jerry Hairston Jr's Toupee

      1 year ago

      Keuchel on the mound today. Maybe not….

      Reply
      • Jerry Hairston Jr's Toupee

        1 year ago

        Cy Keuchel setting em down….

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      • UWPSUPERFAN77

        1 year ago

        Not the old DK! the new DK a Has been. He got away with no control and junk. Amazing game of somehow getting it done.

        Reply
  11. Mickey Solis

    1 year ago

    Another miracle find for no reason and teams cower to the Dodgers anyway

    Reply
  12. Old York

    1 year ago

    While his fastball is effective, adding a few more mph could make him more dominant, especially against higher-level competition.

    Reply
  13. UWPSUPERFAN77

    1 year ago

    I game audition for Dodgers was a B grade at least. Got my attention. Looked a lot better than DK of Brewers!

    Reply

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