Veteran reliever Blake Treinen was placed on the 15-day injured list yesterday due to tightness in his right forearm, and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts shed more light on Treinen’s situation when speaking with the Orange County Register’s Bill Plunkett and other reporters today. Specifically, Treinen has a “low-grade sprain of the forearm,” as Roberts described it, as some forearm discomfort throughout the week resurfaced Friday when Treinen was warming up to enter the game.
“He was one hitter away as he was warming up to go into the game,” Roberts said. “Obviously, if he were to pitch, it could have been potentially worse. So I would say we’re in the dodged-a-bullet category.”
An MRI revealed the sprain yesterday, and Treinen will get more testing done before a recovery timeline is established. Roberts’ view of the injury seemed relatively positive, though even if Treinen has avoided a more long-term problem, it stands to reason that he’ll miss more than just 15 days just out of natural precaution when dealing with forearm-related injuries.
Treinen’s first four seasons in Los Angeles yielded excellent (if often injury-plagued) results, leading to a two-year, $22MM deal to rejoin the club this past offseason. Treinen was off to a solid start in 2025, if a bit of a step back only in comparison to his past standards since coming to the Dodgers prior to the 2020 season. Over eight innings and eight appearances this year, Treinen has a 3.38 ERA, 27.8% strikeout rate, and 8.3% walk rate.
Turning to another Blake on the Dodgers’ injured list, Saturday marked Blake Snell’s first bullpen session since he was placed on the 15-day IL with left shoulder inflammation. Snell told The Athletic’s Fabian Ardaya that he will need at least one more bullpen and simulated game before exploring a rehab assignment, but as for the first step, Snell left his initial bullpen session feeling “way better.”
Snell hasn’t pitched since April 2, and it would seem like his IL stint will last over a month, given the number of steps remaining in the recovery process. While the shoulder inflammation doesn’t seem like anything too serious, it does add to Snell’s history of both injuries and first-half struggles. Snell did have a 2.00 ERA in his first two starts and nine innings of the 2025 season, but for his career, he has a 3.95 ERA prior to the All-Star break and then a 2.34 ERA in the second half.
The L.A. rotation had another minor injury scare in today’s 1-0 win over the Rangers, as Tyler Glasnow left with an apparent leg injury after throwing his first pitch of the fifth inning. Fortunately, the team announced that Glasnow left due to only leg cramps, and Glasnow told MLB.com’s Sonja Chen and other reporters that he believes he’ll be able to make his next start. The Dodgers have off-days on both Monday and Thursday this week, so Glasnow will get a full week before he is next scheduled to take the mound on April 27 against the Pirates.
Dodgers. Pitcher injuries. Hmmm.
Baseball teams. Pitcher injuries. Hmmm.
Comes with the territory when trying to maximize spin rates and velocity for better stuff.
Gonsolin should be ready in less than a week and Kershaw a couple weeks after. The dodger pitching merry go round continues. End of season will be who is left standing again.
Glasgow hurt again. No surprise
It’s just cramps is what the announcers said.
Apparently he’s cramps-prone.
Did not like the trade when it was announced, and I liked it even less when they signed him to that 100m + contract.
Really? It’s not like LA is hurting for the money. If Glasnow can stay healthy you have another number 1/2 starter. I’m not saying it’s likely Glasnow stays healthy, it’s just strange to hear that.
because they gave up a quality young pitcher who has put up similar numbers over the same amount of time without paying 20+ million dollars, and he doesn’t have a track record of not staying healthy.
Glasnow is a better pitcher then Pepiot. Last year he was decent but nothing jumps out at you. If I’m the Dodgers I make that trade again today. I know Glasnow has never been healthy. But when he has been he’s been dominant. And LA has so much pitching that he could be hurt for the year and they will still be fine.
I won’t argue that Glasnow has a higher upside, but I don’t think he’s much better than Pepiot. Certainly not worth 20 million a year more than him. Oh look, as I’m typing this, Glasnow has to leave a start due to injury….again.
Who has more injuries? Dodgers pitchers or Scott boras clients?
The Dodgers can’t hit.
Good thing they can pitch.
Of course this was only the 8th game so far this year with Ohtani-Betts-Freeman all in the same lineup. I’d say they’re hanging in there what with all the missed games by the 1-2-3 hitters so far.
They’re pushing the “how many 30 and over players can we pack onto one roster and survive?” question to its practical limit.
Since WW2 has there been an older roster?
I’m waiting for the player or Dave Roberts’ tell-all in ten years that reveals how the Dodgers FO figured out how to add a couple of seasons to good players’ primes. Macrobiotics? Tai chi yoga? Micronutrient supplements? $350m payrolls and all of the above?
Two position players on the 26-man who are under 30, and just one, Pages, with more than 3 PA. I don’t think I’ve seen that before—not even as early as the third week in April.
We’re half a year removed from a WS championship with mostly the same position players. They hit just fine then. Be careful when you have an agenda. The bottom of the order has been particularly bad but that tends to even out over the course of a full season.
Look at some of those late Torre yankee squads
And yet they are still on pace for over 110 wins. Just wait until they DO start hitting……
Yeah, they could well rip off a couple of 15-20 game tears with a winning pct around .750-.800 before the ASB. It’s a lineup with an average age of 31 and a combined 112 OPS+. Less than we’d expect given the established talent level of that group but not bad at all given the team’s age.
Wow—just noticed the hitting by the bench and by secondary players has been incredibly bad. OPS+’s of 68, 72, 56, 2, -45, 51, another -45, and 7, in a combined 271 PA. That’s a lot of PA to give away.
Don’t feel sorry for the dodgers. Unlike vast amount of others, they have the vast resources to get freely who they need!
Dodgers are at the beginning stages of a bloated payroll with aging players with long term commitments. Give these guys 2 more years of playoff runs and the Dodgers will be irrelevant for the next 15 years after that. They will have a bunch of huge contracts to pay out with no performance on the field. The best part of all is when Ohtani’s body breaks down from all the games he has played and the taxing demands on his body from pitching and hitting. He will probably have at least 5 years left on his contract of little performance and then once he retires they have to start paying him $70 million a year, that’s a ton of money to pay for a player that isn’t even in their dugout.
haighwiser, Ohtani paid for his contract last season. Anything else he does is gravy.
The Dodgers front office will always find a way to win.
@haighwiser
How is it possible to STILL not understand how deferrals work, particularly as it regards Ohtani, whose contract is the most insanely team-friendly deal in professional sports history (and not just because LA will make money on it, every year)…?
How is it possible to understand that the Dodgers are owned by a HUGELY successful hedge fund, which means that every deal they do that involves deferrals is one they will be making money on…?
And what about how they’ve operated over the last decade-plus leads you to believe that the Dodgers will be anything other than very good–and thus, quite relevant–for the foreseeable future?
Given the miracle of Google, there’s just no excuse for a take this bad…….
Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s splitter is devastating, getting a 51.4 whiff rate.