The Dodgers placed Tyler Glasnow on the 15-day injured list with right shoulder inflammation. Reliever Noah Davis is up from Triple-A Oklahoma City to take his spot on the active roster.
Glasnow left yesterday’s start after one inning upon experiencing shoulder discomfort. It was the second consecutive early exit for the 6’8″ right-hander, who had departed his previous start with cramping in his calf. Shoulder soreness is a more concerning development, though manager Dave Roberts somewhat downplayed the issue when speaking with reporters before tonight’s game against Miami. Roberts indicated Glasnow was battling through “overall body soreness” but stated they didn’t believe there was anything structurally wrong with his shoulder (via Jack Harris of The Los Angeles Times).
While the inflammation diagnosis aligns with that, it leaves an uncertain timeline for Glasnow’s return. It’s the third IL stint of his year-plus tenure in Los Angeles. He missed a bit of time around the All-Star Break last season with a mild back concern. An August elbow sprain ended his season and prevented him from contributing during the playoff run. Glasnow’s 134 innings nevertheless represented the heaviest workload of his major league career, as durability has long been his biggest question.
Glasnow’s command has been wobbly in the early going. He has walked 11 hitters and given up four home runs through his first 18 innings. That has led to a mediocre 4.50 earned run average even though he’s striking out 30% of opponents. He was excellent last season before the injury, working to a 3.49 ERA with a 32.2% strikeout rate.
The Dodgers now have eight starting pitchers on the injured list. They’ll get one back when Tony Gonsolin makes his season debut on Wednesday. Gonsolin is the only short-term reinforcement. All the other injured starters aside from Glasnow and Blake Snell are on the 60-day IL and won’t be back until late May at the earliest. Snell remains shut down from throwing with shoulder soreness of his own.
Los Angeles is off Thursday but will play on 10 straight days from May 2-11. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Dustin May, Roki Sasaki and Gonsolin will be part of the regular rotation. For the final turn, they could opt for spot starts or bullpen games from the group of Landon Knack, Justin Wrobleski and Bobby Miller. One other option would be to build Ben Casparius back into a starting role, which Roberts said this evening is on the table (via Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic).
Casparius has worked from the bullpen during his big league career. His lone “start” went 2 2/3 innings to kick off a bullpen game. He built up to 3 2/3 frames during yesterday’s outing after the Glasnow injury. Casparius started 19 of 21 appearances in Triple-A last season, so he’s familiar with the role. He has worked to a 2.91 ERA while striking out 27.1% of opponents over 11 games in his first extended big league action.
He needs another “S’ after the first one in his last name.
Probably the funniest and most original post ever to appear on this site.
Also the most original
Funniest, most original and least repetitive.
Funniest, most original, least repetitive, AND the most clever.
And yet none of the three replies were able to note Sal was likely using “facetious sarcasm.”
Funniest, most original, least repetitive, most clever and absolutely not facetious or sarcastic in any way.
Fortunately, Glasnow’s hair was uninjured and will remain on the 26 man active roster for the time being.
I know, he needs to go on the IL just for that atrocious weed patch on his head.
Haha son of a b, maybe a touch of hair envy
That may be true, I am bald af…hmmm you would make a good psychoanalyst!
that hair is worth 20 million a year
Most fragile and overrated player in the league
Peaks at 135 innings a season
Fragile yes, overrated not so much.
Career WAR of 8.9 and ERA close to 4. He’s very overrated.
RIP. I love you forever Tyler.
Death, taxes, and Tyler Glasnow going on the IL
Round and round we go! In fact, let’s play a game. Name the year:
– Pirates resign Andrew McCutchen to be DH
– Braves sign Jesse Chavez to MiLB contract, let him go, resign/trade for him
– Braves do the same with Eddie Rosario
– Glasnow goes on IL
Don’t you mean he’s been placed on the glasnow list?
When does the injury insurance payment kick in? I wonder what those premiums are? I think any actuary would say he’s a bad risk.
I can’t believe any insurance company even offers policies on baseball players. Durable players still get hurt every two or three years, and then plenty of players get hurt every year. The premiums would be so much that it wasn’t even worth it.
The policies I believe are complex. I think I heard they kick in only after one year of being hurt. I dont think they cover dollar for dollar either. All pitchers are a risk for a TJ. He may turn out as a huge bust due to health issues. He is not that great anyway.
I’ve bled Blue since my parents brought me to Dodger games since 1990. I think that I even have a hat that one one else has – the hat celebrates their 100 year anniversary as a team dating back to their start in Brooklyn (I believe as the Bridegrooms) in 1890. All that said, Glasnow is an overrated bust. His career BWar is 9.1, while Skenes in basically a little over a yeas is 6.0. Total fail by the best front office in the game. And maybe Snell is next.
The Dodgers are a strange team. They have a ton of pitchers on the IL; Mookie is still learning SS; CF is unsettled and Muncy is out to a slow start. Yet they’ll still be in the WS again and probably win it.
Yeah they’re downright bizarre. Moving a Hall of Fame outfielder to shortstop in his 30s. Still playing over-the-hill Rojas, Taylor, and Muncy, because of their previous contributions. Thinking Kike Hernandez can hit.
The totally bizarre World Champions.
Muncy isn’t off to a slow start he’s just done with zero value to the team.
avenger65: I wouldn’t be so sure.
It’s delicious that they will not win the WS and won’t win the NL either although they will make the post season. It’s amazing how many times they’ve won their division but not won the WS in the last 11 of 12 years. They were very fortunate that SD choked away that series last year. Dodger fans please comment about that shortened 2020 season that no ones else counts. Enjoy that Dave Roberts extension.
ZS59: I’m not a Dodgers fan, but 2020 does count according to MLB and lots of fans.
And why does it bother you so much after 5 years? Get over it.
Because a troll is a troll is a troll, Baron. He’s just another dime a dozen jealous hater.
I was unaware I needed to check with you regarding my opinion. Why does it bother you so much what I think? Get over yourself policing the communities opinions.
Its a free country. You may absolutely continue on your merry benighted way. Revel in it. If you can’t take the community’s criticism, spout off somewhere else.
ZS59: Because, as Bivouac-Sal so accurately and eloquently put it, you’re just a troll. As such, you’re subject to community judgment.
Try to be even more of a shmuck next time, if that’s possible.
Blue Baron, Chapaue, I hope you and B-S take comfort in bullying users you don’t agree with on the MLBTR. Your (and B-S’s) body of work on this site speaks for itself.
Awww.
You start the chain with this bs…
“It’s delicious that they will not win the WS and won’t win the NL either although they will make the post season. ”
That is truly delicious, Sunshine. You make unfounded provocative statements and then you whine when people react.
And then you say you’re being bullied.
Pray tell, what team do you root for? Or is there one?
ZS59: Congrats. You followed my advice and became even more of a shmuck!
That’s right. 2020 doesn’t count, even though every team was playing under the exact same circumstances…. Any new riddles today, troll?
So if the 2020 WS had been decided by pulling a name out of a hat, that would have been legitimate so long as all 30 teams were in the hat?
So long as they pulled the Dodgers out of the hat, yes. Or maybe they should have used a trash can.
Except I said they were playing under the same circumstances. Not pulling names out of a hat. Any other low IQ arguments?
nowheredan: What an astonishingly dumb post. How does someone as ignorant as you function in life?
Nice job, both of you!!
Step 1: Miss my point like Joey Gallo swinging at a bp fastball.
Step 2: Get all bent out of shape for some reason.
Step 3: Go on the attack.
Huge thumbs up to you both!!!
nowheredan: And we would offer you huge points for whatever your imaginary point is, but no reasonable number of points would raise your low IQ to any level of intelligence, so sorry not sorry, but we can’t help you.
I’m still searching for what his point is… There seems to be none.
Same take as 2024.
The Dodgers had an odd team in the playoffs last year (only having 2 1/2 starting pitchers), yet they still pulled it out. I do agree that his team is shockingly off though. Starting pitching up the wazoo, but because of injuries they’ve already had to do bullpen games this year. Yep, Mookie at short is weird too. But he’s the one saying that he wants to do it. If you put him back in right, that means Teoscar has to go to left…. Moving Conforto to the bench (he never should have been signed). On paper the pen is wild. Scott, Yates, Evan Phillips, Blake Treinen… All guys that have or could close, yet they’ve been average this year… They really need to just cut Chris Taylor and Austin Barnes. Having Hunter Feduccia waste away in the minors is a bummmer… All said, if they win tonight vs the Marlins (blew a 5-0 lead), they’ll be tied for first place in the meat grinder NL west
It must be that time of the month for Glasnow.
They’ll turn to a stretched out Casparius if the threesome of Wrobleski, Knack and Miller continue to turn in subpar performances and they get tired of losing those games. If they want to go with six man rotation and not go bullpen games, they’ll need 2 more SPs between these four, and possibly a fifth if they bring up Sauer. That assumes of course that the remaining 4 SPs stay healthy. Not a given given their recent histories.
I would love to see Casparius get a shot at sticking in the rotation. He’s earned the opportunity.
They call me Mr. Glass.
WHEN he’s healthy, he’s formidable. Unfortunately you can’t count on him being healthy for any significant stretch of time.
I would be shocked if he can make it to the end of season without having to go under the knife again.
A harsh but spot on assessment of Snell.
I get it, but Snell and Glasnow aren’t even in the same stratosphere career-wise.
It’s a joke of course, boy do the Dodgers have a type! It’s not my $ but damn. If you take away the 2 seasons where Snell gets to 180 IP, they have VERY similar careers 9.9 WAR vs 8.9 WAR, Snell with just 64 more IP.
Of course the two 180 IP seasons are 13.6 WAR & 2 Cy Youngs.
Yeah, I agree. Dodgers seem absolutist to me in roster construction and in-game management.
That is a great take on how they run things. Crazy part is because that’s how they think, they’ll consider 2024 and 2020* a success.
I see a front office that wasted Clayton Kershaw’s prime, has watched Betts, Freeman get old and man oh man, if the NYY don’t absolutely collapse in Game 3 how last years WS would have played out differently because would the LAD have a bullpen game up only 2-1?
Ownership doesn’t seem to have issue yet with how the front office spends $ and the resulting CBT
Did you mean G5? They’re successful, and I get why ownership doesn’t mind spending; they’re raking it in hand over fist. They’re a great organization, but their unerring commitment to the optimal EV decision-making disappoints them more often than playoff and injury randomness would dictate.
Imagine a bad shoulder. Could be longe than a TJ.
I’m confused. Are you trying to say he hurt his butt or that he’s butt hurt?
That tackyness hurt his butt
And he’s butt hurt about that
Take it from me man
And the brass tax
About the ape man!
What’s the score here?
You people voted for Hubert humpfree
The kids…they called him Mr. Glass.
It’s OK, they have more pitchers. Almost like they planned for this.
For sure, they have contingencies, but it’s just wild to me that the Dodgers fall in love with the sub-3 SIERA, sky-high K% pitchers who might give you 120ish innings instead of the 3.5-3.75 SIERA pitchers for 160 to 180+ innings. Flaherty, Pivetta, etc. I would much rather have the latter group at a lower AAV, but those are big market problems.
Next they will mention Glasnow was throwing the curve differently however that might make people blame Mcguiness. Just hire Roger B already; this is getting ridiculous.
Can we get Pepiot back?
There needs to be an OSHA investigation into all these Dodgers pitching injuries then again they probably already have a scapegoat on the payroll to take blame