The Dodgers announced that they’ve placed southpaw Hyun-Jin Ryu on the 10-day injured list with neck soreness. His anticipated timeline to return isn’t yet known.
In other moves, the L.A. org announced the already reported arrival of exciting pitching prospect Dustin May while recalling fellow righty Tony Gonsolin. Reliever Dylan Floro was optioned out to create roster space. Southpaw Scott Alexander moves to the 60-day injured list to make 40-man space for May.
Ryu, 32, has been on an unbelievable run of success since accepting a qualifying offer to remain with the Dodgers. In 21 starts, he has run up 135 2/3 innings of 1.53 ERA pitching while maintaining 7.8 K/9 against 1.1 BB/9 along with a 51.5% groundball rate.
It’s unlikely the veteran lefty will be able to keep up quite that level of output the rest of the way, but he seems to be in top form at an important time for a Dodgers club that just placed a big bet on its existing pitching options at the trade deadline. Given his lengthy injury history and limited accumulation of innings in recent campaigns, it’s not surprising to see Ryu hit the shelf. There’s no indication of the seriousness of the injury, but it’s reasonably likely the Los Angeles organization was as concerned with finding Ryu some down time as it was worried about this particular malady.
Get the big dog some rest yo
He deserves a little rest before October.
Manipulating the IL to give Ryu some rest and cleaning out that BP. Great moves!
ahhhhhh. yes the infamous, slept funny and strained his neck IL stint.
aha ha, slept funny? That’s it? Okay, so definitely not caused by a violent sneezing attack. That’s good news lol
Smart move give guys a break
Right. The dodgers are the biggest abusers of the 10 day IL
They aren’t breaking any rules. Other clubs should be taking notes.
Because thet have so much depth and are running away with the NL
Not the Dodgers fault that MLB thought a 10 day IL would be a good idea. Teams can now get an extra bat or arm while their SP only misses 1 start.
Your fave team can do the same. Don’t hate on the Dodgers cause your team is to dumb to use it
Uh-oh, sounds like another serious sprain of his fraudulatum.
Depth! That’s why they didn’t sign anyone for the bullpen! I got it now!
I still think they will win the NL and probably all of it! Gotta tip my hat to the talent. But Astros closed the gap!
The Dodgers have not placed an emphasis on the bullpen because Friedman is making the decisions, plain and simple. That is why the Dodgers will likely never win a world championship as long as Friedman is making those decisions. I have been predicting this for years and I am not the only one who sees it.
Thats a load of garbage. They came 1 game from a title and I dont wanna hear “did they win”, game 7 of the WS is a team capable of winning a world series. Friedman is an excellent person to have running your baseball ops. The amount of anti Friedman comments from the Dodger fanbase is comical. 95% of the leauge would kill to have him calling their shots
Sure, it’s a safe bet for you to make. But if they do win it all, I’ll bet we never hear from you.
Cy Young
Yeah this is a practical move. The Dodgers can afford to do it and Ryu could use some rest. Good timing all around.
I hurt my neck reading this story.
10 day IL for you
Ryu said he woke up with “soreness” on the right side of his neck…Or was it the left side? I guess he forgot his lines
He did come out of his last start at 80 pitches, pitching well with 0 runs allowed in 6 innings. It was a bit of a surprise, as I don’t believe he was coming up in the Dodgers’ half of the inning either.