April 4: Catcher Hunter Feduccia was recalled today as the corresponding move, per a club announcement.
April 3: The Dodgers announced that they’ve placed Freddie Freeman on the 10-day injured list with a right ankle sprain. The placement is retroactive to March 31, so Freeman will be eligible to return a week from today.
Freeman has not played since Saturday. Manager Dave Roberts told reporters that the star first baseman tweaked his ankle when he slipped in the shower (via Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic). Freeman played through an ankle sprain down the stretch and throughout last year’s playoff run. He had a monster World Series despite the injury but nevertheless required surgery in early December. That procedure didn’t prevent him from starting the season, but the recent shower slip will require at least another week of rest.
IL placements can be backdated by up to three days. That the Dodgers elected not to place Freeman on the IL right away suggests they didn’t consider this a significant injury. It was enough to send him for an extremely rare IL stint though. Freeman last went on the shelf in 2020 for a positive virus test. His most recent non-illness IL stay came back in 2017, when a fracture in his left wrist knocked him out for more than two months.
Enrique Hernández drew into the lineup at first base for the Dodgers’ series against the Braves. While he went a combined 1-11, the Dodgers swept Atlanta to move to 8-0. The four top teams in the NL West have all gotten out to excellent starts — the 7-0 Padres join the Dodgers as the only remaining undefeated clubs — but the Dodgers obviously have plenty of talent to weather what seems likely to be a short-term absence.
Los Angeles didn’t announce a corresponding roster move. They’re off today, so there wasn’t any urgency to fill the spot, but waiting until tomorrow to place Freeman on the IL would have pushed back his retroactive date by a day. They can recall another hitter leading up to their weekend series in Philadelphia.
BREAKING: The Dodgers trade Esteury Ruiz to the Toronto Blue Jays for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and international bonus money.
I was making fun of all the “The Dodgers are ruining baseball, Italian food, and the country of Lithuania” posters before they could work themselves into a Red Bull induced tizzy.
See: Bruce Wulf below…
The dodgers gave me tariffs
The other two Baltic states might be relieved, or feel left out.
They have shampoo for that…
No thanks. They can keep Vlad.
Naming your kid Estuary seems perverse to me. River Ruiz is a non perverse alternative. Just the way it rolls off the tongue. Like naming someone Fallopian.
You really can’t be this freaking dumb and culturally insensitive/ignorant? Or can you?
Fallopian Tubias. And yes I can be all of those things and more.
I thought you your going for faux ignorance with Esteury vs Estuary.
Little known fact: estuaries are about the most valuable biome outside of tropical rainforests.
Yes I was going for faux ignorance based on the similarities in sounds. An Estuary might even be considered Fallopian in its fertile nature. Plus both of those words just feel weird. Like the moist meme.
Slipped in the shower? Kinda like an aggressive massage?
All while falling off his dirt bike whilst he was washing his truck and stepping in a gopher hole on his ranch.
Wink wink
Get well soon, Freddy!
While wrestling wild boar.
~Senor Cespedes
Or injured while trying to avoid a spider.
Freddie wife giving birth in January next year
This guy maths.
if wife gives birth in early December….should we ask maury
Datashark… you ARE the father!
*crowd noises and gasps*
*Mrs. Freeman sobs*
*camera follows Freddie storming off backstage and out the exit door*
Soap on a rope. Man I cannot believe I forgot that in the shower!
Nothing will top Glenallen Hill having a nightmare about spiders that caused him to jump out of bed and through a glass table.
Wonder what he smoked that night
I still like Adam Eaton stabbing himself in the stomach trying to open a DVD set from Costco.
Nothing can top Joel Zumaya and Guitar Hero. (He was featured in the credits of the next Guitar Hero game.)
He who shant be named, got his fingers torn up trying to fly his drone and couldn’t pitch much for Cleveland’s 2016 playoff run.
And his buddy Plesac punching the mound!
In all fairness, the mound betrayed him.
I believe I recall Sammy Sosa going on the disabled list after sneezing, at some point in his storied career…
Juan Gonzalez tying his shoe laces.
Ricky Bones reaching for the tv remote
Jeremy Affeldt is the king.
Son tackled him and injured his knee.
Sons bday. Slipped on a jetty diving into a lake and injured the knee again
Cut his hand separating frozen burger patties and needed surgery
Had a sneezing fit and strained an oblique
I’m going go with a tie:
Chris Brown sleeping on his eye “funny” and having a “strained eyelid”.
And, back in 85……Steve Trout falling off a bike—-a stationary bike—- in the Cubs clubhouse.
And who says baseball players aren’t athletes?
I forgot it was a dream and not actually avoiding a real spider, which is almost as embarrassing.
Joe Beimel cutting his hand on a glass in a bar.
Former Brave Terry Harper separating his shoulder while waving the runner around third base. Baseball players get hurt in the darndest ways.
@TJECK109 The only weird thing about that is, who has a glass table in their bedroom?
Clint Barmes falling down a flight of stairs carrying groceries
Forgot that one, thanks Steve! Lmao
Wasn’t it deer meat?
How about Salvador Perez tearing up his knee at the airport?
Grade 2 MCL tear.
So now the Dodgers will only win 118 games instead of 120 games. Get well soon, Frederick.
shower: 1
Freddie: 0
Can never be too careful when it comes to injuries. Guitar Hero ruined Joel Zumaya’s career.
Thoughts and prayers to Freddie.
Brian Anderson burned his face checking if a clothes iron was hot. Spent time on DL. Now he’s Marlins broadcaster.
I have so many questions, but really, why the face to check an iron?
*facepalm*
@gwynning – Fine lines and wrinkles?
Sound logic, Carver! Perhaps I need to try it, I could use a 60 Day IL stint away from the house hag.
It is the manly alternative to a facelift… ; )
Although I should be cautious with respect to lobbing this out there for social media to pick up on this idea, as we already have a president that advocated for injecting bleach as a Covid treatment, and the new HHS director might decide to use his platform for the new Iron Supplement.
It’s a good thing I don’t believe in the measles.
Nope, that was John Smoltz
Right, Anderson’s injury was dislocating his pitching shoulder resting his arm on the back of the seat in a taxi. Also he broadcasts for Rays not Marlins. Oh well…
The more injured Freddie is, the better a hitter he becomes. Cut off his leg, his OPS will jump .200 points
this is bad
if it lingers they might only win 112 games
didn’t Dave just say just say it was minor nbd? pretty much always the opposite of anything he says in relation to injuries.
This is pretty much not true.
There are countless conspiracy-theory injury examples strewn across the sporting landscape, not that this particular one can be found therein. My all-time fave regarded a Tiger’s broken foot:
a) Was spooked by a raccoon in his garbage can;
or
b) Was stomped on by a, ahem, debt collector.
That raccoon/stomp handed the 1967 AL pennant to the Boston Red Sox, or so says History.
FYI : In poker, Pocket 9s may now be known as the Aaron Donald, Aaron Judge, or A A-Ron.”
Former nickname not to be used at any poker table worth its salt.
What’s the former nickname?
Hellmuth
If Mario doesn’t get cancer, Gretzky is #3 on all time goals. But he was the Great One, and pocket 9s are often referred to as the great one.
Phil also has it as nickname. Greatest tourney poker player? I was not aware he was that. Is he the all-time leader in WSOP earnings? I think that’s the Kid, Daniel Negreannu( Ty for the arguable qualifier) Far more entertaining player too, unless you’re into a whiney player using transparent mind games on people that usually get turned on him to his detriment. But I digress…
How about Tony Gwynn slamming the car door and fracturing his finger while in the bank parking lot?
Or John Smoltz burning his chest as he ironed his jersey while he was wearing it?
Will it take Ohtani to buy him some non slip shower togs ?????? What a hoot.
It just so happened that he tweaked his ankle when he QUICKLY bent over for the bar of soap that he had dropped.
Finally, an eye witness.
There likely was an eyewitness – ask one of The Checkers.
You lost me.
Add in the key word (hint: rhymes with ‘Pecker’).
So, can we call-up an actual CF for a cup of coffee while Frederick is out? If nothing else, Pages could see what one is supposed to do out there. Wouldnt mind seeing Hope get some reps.
So you think Zyhir Hope is ready to jump from A-ball over Justin Dean or James Outman? If so why isn’t Hope in AA or AAA? Academic now since Feduccia is the callup.
Not that I would wish anything bad on the Dodgers, wink, wink…
*injured having intercourse in the shower
Freddie you dog 😉
No obvious 1B on 40 man out of the 4 listed position players. Anybody left to be placed on the 60 before Chavis gets promoted (followed by a DFA at end of Freeman’s IL stint)?
Guess they wanna try Feddie at 1st, since Keek swinging a cold bat….
Feel free to take next weekend against the Cubs off, too, just in case. Please.
They have to rely on Ohtani and Teo who combined for 350 strikeouts last year. I see a losing streak coming for the Dodgers.