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Dodgers Place Kirby Yates On 15-Day IL, Select Lou Trivino

By Mark Polishuk | May 18, 2025 at 2:19pm CDT

2:19PM: Yates has been officially placed on the 15-day IL with a right hamstring strain, and the Dodgers also announced Trivino’s selection.

12:21PM: The Dodgers will select Lou Trivino’s contract when Yates is placed on the 15-day IL, the Athletic’s Fabian Ardaya reports.  Trivino posted a 5.84 ERA over 12 1/3 innings with the Giants before he was designated for assignment, and Trivino subsequently elected free agency after clearing waivers.  Los Angeles signed Trivino to a minor league contract last week, and he’ll head to the Dodgers’ roster on the heel of just one appearance (and one scoreless inning) with Triple-A Oklahoma City.

8:05AM: Dodgers right-hander Kirby Yates was pulled from Saturday’s game due to what was initially described by the team as right hamstring tightness, and later specified as a probable Grade 1 hamstring strain by manager Dave Roberts.  “I don’t see how it’s not an IL [situation],” Roberts told Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register and other reporters in postgame interviews, though Yates will get an MRI today to evaluate the severity of the injury.

It was a rough night all around for Yates, as the reliever was charged with three runs over a third of an inning pitched and was credited as the losing pitcher in the Dodgers’ 11-9 loss to the Angels.  Yates retired just one of five batters faced, and after throwing a fourth ball and walking Jo Adell, Yates grabbed at his right hamstring and was in obvious discomfort on the mound.

That single tough outing boosted Yates’ ERA to 4.34 over 18 2/3 innings this season, but a .385 BABIP has contributed heavily to that inflated ERA.  With a 1.90 SIERA, .282 xwOBA (which far below his .358 wOBA), and a 38.8% strikeout rate that is among the best in baseball, Yates has been perhaps more effective in 2025 than even during his 2024 comeback season with the Rangers, even if the bottom-line numbers have yet to reflect his performance.

Unfortunately, Yates’ hard luck looks to now continue with a trip to the Dodgers’ ever-crowded 15-day injured list.  Yates would be the 14th pitcher on the Los Angeles IL, and that number expands to 15 if you count Shohei Ohtani’s continued recovery from UCL surgery.  In terms of high-leverage relievers, Yates would join Evan Phillips, Michael Kopech, and Blake Treinen on the sidelines, further thinning out the Dodgers’ list of late-game options.

Assuming Yates indeed goes on the 15-day IL today, Los Angeles will probably have to call up a reliever from Triple-A just to bring a fresh arm into the pen, since five relievers were used in Saturday’s game.  While navigating multiple pitching injuries has become routine for the Dodgers in recent years, one wonders if the sheer attrition will catch up to the team at some point, particularly in a 2025 season that sees L.A. battling with three competitive foes (the Padres, Giants, and Diamondbacks) in the NL West alone.

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34 Comments

  1. el_chapo_

    2 months ago

    Every time a dodger pitcher gets a boo-boo, a football slider gets its wings.

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    • gbs42

      2 months ago

      Whose football slider is that???

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    • simonkiller

      2 months ago

      Go back to your cave

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    • WadeBoggsWildRide

      2 months ago

      DON’T AWAKEN IT BY SAYING IT’S NAME!

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    • WadeBoggsWildRide

      2 months ago

      You won MLBTR for the day.

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  2. Boston’s Alignment

    2 months ago

    Predictable. Okay next.

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  3. kevnames42

    2 months ago

    What if they just used Ohtani in short spurts instead of calling up a new pitcher? I know it’s probably a headache for the manager, but the guy needs some in-game reps and can’t go on a rehab assignment

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    • Mets Era Thumping Soto

      2 months ago

      I don’t think they want Ohtani any were near a major league mound. That would be a true killer to the Dodgers if he got hurt again and wasn’t in there lineup.

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      • Bivouac-Sal

        2 months ago

        It’s all about having Ohtani pitch–and hit– in October.

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    • YankeesBleacherCreature

      2 months ago

      Ohtani threw 50 pitches during his recent bullpen session and probably doesn’t need to pitch in AAA before he’s ready.

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      • Mets Era Thumping Soto

        2 months ago

        He hasn’t thrown a breaking ball yet and is being severely slow rolled for a guy who probably could have pitched last September health wise.

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        • YankeesBleacherCreature

          2 months ago

          As they should and they didn’t need his arm last fall.

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        • Mets Era Thumping Soto

          2 months ago

          They shouldn’t need it now either but they definitely need his bat.

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  4. Pedro Martinez’s Mango Tree

    2 months ago

    So they’re down to 5 elite late inning options?? What’s a baseball manager to do with such limited choices??

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    • Mets Era Thumping Soto

      2 months ago

      I don’t know if you have been watching but the Dodgers have been giving up runs like it’s a men’s beer league.

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      • sad tormented neglected mariners fan

        2 months ago

        Yeah all that talent is not performing how they should on paper

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    • Ignorant Son-of-a-b

      2 months ago

      I don’t know if you noticed, but the Dodgers just got swept by the mighty LA Angels. That’s pretty freakin hilarious.

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      • Steinbrenner2728

        1 month ago

        What’s more hilarious are the people who were complaining that the Dodgers were going to go 162-0 and that they somehow ruined baseball.

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  5. letitbelowenstein

    2 months ago

    Put him on the “BI” as in “Bad Investment”.

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    • BlueSkies_LA

      2 months ago

      Or, you could put him on the 15-day IL and let his hamstring recover.

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      • Ignorant Son-of-a-b

        2 months ago

        Are you going to wrap him on his knuckles too, with a ruler?

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  6. TrillionaireTeamOperator

    2 months ago

    I looked it up and the Dodgers signed him on a 1 year/$13M deal and all I can think is what I always think:

    I didn’t even realize they’d made this signing and this guy pitching or going down on the IL doesn’t matter because it’s the Dodgers- they have a 260,000 man roster.

    They have more depth than the Mariana Trench.

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  7. leftykoufax

    2 months ago

    Having to get up and down for 2nd and 3rds at those BBQ buffets can be a killer..

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  8. jimmy ray hart

    2 months ago

    All the Dodgers on the IL is the Baseball gods way of telling the best team in baseball that they have to play with one hand tied behind their back… at least now it’s a fair fight.

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  9. This one belongs to the Reds

    2 months ago

    Next guy up on the 65 man roster.

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  10. Degaz

    2 months ago

    Dodgers pitching has sucked this year…Hahaha

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  11. boysofsummer

    2 months ago

    Get Daniel Hudson out of retirement this bullpen needs help.

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  12. EM41

    2 months ago

    Yates has now fulfilled the essential requirement for all Dodgers’ pitchers – he’s spent time on the disabled list.

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  13. Captainmike1

    2 months ago

    Lou was part of one of Cashman’s worst trades and one of the worst in MLB history
    They gave up an all star pitcher to get Lou and Frankie

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    • Steinbrenner2728

      2 months ago

      J.P. Sears hasn’t made an All-Star Game appearance yet.

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      • Captainmike1

        2 months ago

        The roster has not been announced for this season and I predict he will be named an all star this year

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  14. Steinbrenner2728

    2 months ago

    Can someone tell “This one belongs to the Reds” that 65 players appeared and played for the Reds in 2023 while the Dodgers had 58 players in 2023 and 60 in 2024? Thanks.

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  15. Free Palestine

    2 months ago

    Yates was doing really well before last games blow up. 2.95 ERA entering the night. He’s really only had 3 bad games and for much of the year as the ERA has been in the zeros, ones and twos. Most of his stats are really good except for the run average in short spurts.

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