The Dodgers placed Alex Vesia on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to August 23, with a right oblique strain. Blake Snell was activated from the paternity list in the corresponding move.
Vesia was one of the few Dodgers pitchers who had avoided the injured list until now. Only Anthony Banda has made more appearances than Vesia, who has gotten into 59 contests. He owns a 2.75 earned run average while striking out 33% of opponents across 52 1/3 frames. Vesia has collected four saves and recorded a career-best 21 holds.
It’s his second straight excellent season. The southpaw allowed only 1.76 earned runs per nine behind a matching 33% strikeout rate over 67 appearances last year. Between that performance and injuries to Kirby Yates and Tanner Scott, Vesia has been Dave Roberts’ most trusted reliever of late. He has pitched in the highest-leverage situations of any L.A. bullpen arm in the second half.
Scott and Yates recently returned to join Blake Treinen and Ben Casparius in the late innings. Vesia’s injury isn’t quite as significant for the Dodgers as it would’ve been a week or two ago. Still, it’s suboptimal to lose one of their best relievers for at least two weeks as they cling to a one-game lead on San Diego in the NL West.
Has every dodger pitcher been on the IR yet this year ?
No, but many of them have been on the IL.
I think Casparius, Yamamoto and Banda have been on active roster all year?
Casparius has been up and down, but not on the IL, per my recollection
Per TrueBlueLA’s option and IL tracker, Dreyer, Casparius, Yamamoto and Banda have been active all year. Which seems like a decent number, all things considered.
The main thing that matters is the Dodgers pitchers are healthy for the postseason. They’re getting the majority of their injured pitchers back. Some are already back. Snell and Tyler are back and pitching well.
Yates and Scott are back, along with Blake. Sasaki is almost back, same with Michael Kopech.
Not to mention Kike came back and had a good night. Kim is hiring will l well on his rehab assignment, and they are making sure Edman doesn’t come back too soon like he did last time.
The team is coming together.
Oh, and Mookie is hitting like Mookie again. At shortstop.
I say this as a Dodgers fan – they very rarely, if ever, have most of their pitchers back. There’s a constant churn of optimism that they’ll get healthy, but history shows this just doesn’t happen.
@Cam
We just need more than 1.5 starters and a a great pen this year to make it easier on everyone.
Almost, my guess it was his time to get a breather.
Chandlerbing: not yet, but there is still plenty of time. There is something seriously wrong with the Dodger system. Yes, other teams have similar problems but doubt it is to this extent.
His arm is doing very well. Oblique happens.
@fox471….Was your second sentence a bit of sarcasm?
I don’t see any problems with the Dodgers taking risks on pitchers with elite velocity and spin rates, even if they come with injury concerns. They have the financial flexibility to take the risks that most teams can’t. That’s why they have like 10 capable MLB starters, because they know very well that half of them will likely be injured at some point.
He’s been bad for almost 3 weeks and then absent over the weekend. Probably been bothering him for a while.
Getting healed up and rested is a good move. He’s probably been pitching in pain until some of the bullpen pieces came back.
…and in other news, Red Bull stock just took a tumble.
Needs some time off to work on his Rodney Dangerfield impersonation.
well that should keep conforto in daves starting lineup for a while longer. at least until both Edman and Kim are ready which they probably are.
this is just another fantom injury to open a spot on the active roster and rest Vesia.