8:23pm: Los Angeles also activated Brusdar Graterol from the 15-day IL and placed Anthony Banda on the injured list. Banda broke his left hand. That interrupts a solid year for the 31-year-old southpaw. Banda has pitched to a 3.23 ERA while striking out nearly a quarter of opponents in a personal-high 47 1/3 innings.
4:41pm: The Dodgers reinstated Yoshinobu Yamamoto from the 60-day injured list to start tonight’s game against the Cubs. Los Angeles designated lefty reliever Nick Ramirez for assignment to create space on the active and 40-man rosters.
Manager Dave Roberts announced last week that Yamamoto would make his return tonight. It’ll be the Japanese star’s first big league appearance since June 15. Yamamoto missed nearly three months on account of a rotator cuff strain. He should get a few trips through the rotation to continue building his shoulder strength going into the postseason.
Outside of his disastrous first major league start, Yamamoto has pitched like the top-of-the-rotation arm the Dodgers envisioned. He sports a 2.34 earned run average with a 28.1% strikeout rate through 73 innings over his past 13 starts. If he finds that form quickly now that he’s healthy, he could start the first game of a playoff series.
Ramirez loses his roster spot for the second time this season. The Dodgers had DFA him to accommodate their trade deadline pickups. He cleared outright waivers and accepted an assignment to Triple-A Oklahoma City. Los Angeles called him back up on Sunday. Ramirez pitched the final two innings of a 10-4 loss last night. He allowed three runs (one earned) on four hits.
Acquired from the Yankees in April, Ramirez has pitched in eight games for the Dodgers. The 35-year-old has surrendered 11 runs with seven walks and five strikeouts in 13 1/3 innings. He was an effective middle relief arm for New York skipper Aaron Boone a year ago, when he turned in a 2.66 ERA with a meager 5.2% walk rate over 40 2/3 frames.
The Dodgers will put Ramirez on waivers again this week. He’ll likely clear and would have the right to elect free agency, though he could stick with the organization as non-roster depth if he’s outrighted to OKC. Ramirez would become a minor league free agent in the offseason anyhow if the Dodgers don’t call him back up.
Hoorah
So long, it’s been good to know yah.
Not really.
Now there’s a shocker…
shocking would be 3 shutout frames…hoping for the best
He was good
RE MBMVP
Dominant.
he was better than good. kind of amazing. what a lift.
Great to see him throwing well and without pain.
NCB
Hopefully without pain. And hopefully without pain between starts
Been rooting for the Dodgers since I was a kid. I should stop now?
Why don’t you try to find something positive to say about anything, something? Try to enjoy something.
And to answer your question: Yes. I get excited over every game, every roster move and I get depressed over every loss.
Mojo… Same goes for you. Get a life. Win or lose, the team does nothing for your quality of life.
bruin: as if you are the arbiter of anyone else’s enjoyment. negative posters like you are a dime a dozen. you mean nada.
love your whining. and your homophobia.
Facts are easy to find and have four teams spending above LA on 2024 payroll:
spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/_/year/2024/sort/cap_total…
not the point but thanks for posting useful info top. Not that the haters will bother to digest it.
Sorry, mojo, was meant as a reply to the frogs. Agree with your sentiment though.
yeah I got that top. I’ve been posting that spotrac link for months. good site.
Moot point when you’re spreading out salaries until 2060 like there is no tomorrow.
And, yes, I am salty because our front office doesn’t seem to know how to sign a good free agent pitcher.
Lets go: If you’d bother to actually look at the salary chart top posted you will find that the deferred money that counts toward the luxury tax–in excess of 50 million–is counted in the current ranking. But I understand your Monty pain. You still have a strong squad and a strongish staff.
Grenkie was a p good signing, so was Randy Johnson
That’s one of those misleading views—-Ohtani’s AAV is actually $46M against the tax and the Dodgers are actually coming in between $325-331
Frogs
“I don’t get the point of rooting for the dodgers. ”
Do you get the point of rooting for any team?
It’s the exact same as that
Glad to help
It’s nice to support business that pay their workers.
I’m not a Dodgers fan, as you can probably guess from my name. I also would rather have the Angels win a chip before the tax Dodgers.
That being said, I don’t see a problem with them buying players like Yamamoto, Ohtani and Freeman as long as they have players like Betts, Will Smith, Buehler, Lux, Pages and others that are either from their farm system, or acquired by trade due to their farm system.
the taxes get paid when the salaries are paid. that aside, it’s not the same October fight without the likes of Acuna, Riley, Strider, etc. Let’s hope the games in ATL this weekend are fun.
Frogs
Poe’s law in reference to your screen name, I would assume.
Are you a crazy alt-righter who thinks all the frogs are being turned gay along with all the woke beta soy boys?
Or are you making fun of that?
Or something else?
Impossible to know
Bullpen is in decent shape for a short start, at least. Buehler was bad early enough that Roberts saved the top 5 of the pen plus Honeywell.
Watching Buehler struggle after Tommy John surgery has been disappointing to say the least. Hopefully he finds his form, either this year or next.
Hopefully Walker returns to form and doesn’t go the Noah Syndergaard route…
“You actually get excited for that”?…This certainly sounds like the sad, jealous musings of a Whitesox or Cincy Reds fan. Am I right?
When you routinely draw 130,000+ fans for a 3 game weekend series, it makes perfect sense to reinvest large amounts in the on-field product.
RE mlbf
“When you routinely draw 130,000+ fans for a 3 game weekend series, it makes perfect sense to reinvest large amounts in the on-field product”
This. The Dodgers make a ton of money. What to supposed baseball fans think they should do with it!
“This certainly sounds like the sad, jealous musings of a Whitesox or Cincy Reds fan. ”
This seems as pathetic as the original comment by frogs
Another first round exit incoming.
A good to great business and baseball plan will give you several chances to win a WS over any given decade. The Dodgers’ plan literally gives them an opportunity to win a WS every single year and that’s got to count for something.
My guess is, if nothing else but the law of averages is at play, the Dodgers will win at least win 1 WS in the next 3-5 yrs. It really won’t surprise me if they win multiple WS during the same time frame.
For me, it’s all about giving your team as many yearly chances as possible at bringing home the ultimate prize.
Almost 40 years with nothing to show for it!
NC
Dumb comment.
World Series win in 2020
Most wins in baseball over the last decade
A boat load of money
Can’t call that a WS — only 37% of a real season. Thought this was obvious…
NC
It was literally a World Series.
Go troll somewhere else
Banda getting hurt is certainly convenient…but he’s been pretty bad lately so is at least plausible.
{ adjusts tinfoil hat for better reception }
Yeah, wtf is that all about? What the hell happened? I was really looking forward to seeing him in the postseason.
Yamamoto 4 IP 1 ER 8 K 0 BB.
He seems fine.
Maybe it will encourage the cheap owners who siphon money off the monopoly into their own pockets.
Frog
What?
1) I didn’t say that
2) I didn’t not say that, though
Anyway, muted, troll
Any idea how Banda broke his hand?
I hope it wasn’t punching a wall after a tough last week.
Bill Plunkett tweet: “Use your imagination as to how Banda suffered his injury.”
Make of that what you will. Haven’t seen anything else concrete yet.
There was no mention of anything happening in a game, so…
we’ll hear about it in the postgame
I’m not a Dodgers fan. They won in 2020 under rules that applied to all MLB teams. I would have counted it if my team won, so I count it that the Dodgers won.
og
It was a weird season. Everyone played by the same rules.
Imagine saying the 1989 A’s weren’t the champions because of the earthquake.
“A’s weren’t the champions Because of the earthquake”…Good point. Same conditions for all teams = legitimate champions.
No but apparently his left hand saw something concrete.
You only add two letters to go from “Banda” to “Bandage”
sports.yahoo.com/dodgers-reliever-anthony-banda-br…
And those two letters spell Great Effort.
Anthony Banda, you win the 2024 Joe Beimel Award.
Doesn’t matter who is designated. Phillips was just left in to give up four runs in the 8th. May be more now. I am sure this is Friedman’s fault. Couldn’t be anyone else’s.
No, it was five runs. Now 6-3 Cubs. Unbelievable!
Banda was fool’s gold. I guarantee he’d have been decimated in the playoffs
I don’t get why having your team go all out to win and spend what they need to spend is a bad thing.. Do you really think other teams don’t have money to spend? They just choose not to spend.