The Dodgers placed Tyler Glasnow on the 15-day injured list shortly before tonight’s matchup with the Cardinals. It’s the second IL stint of the season for the lanky right-hander, who is dealing with elbow tendinitis. Rookie southpaw Justin Wrobleski was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City and will make his fifth big league start this evening.
While there had not been any indication that Glasnow was battling injury, the Dodgers announced yesterday that they were moving his scheduled start back from tonight to Saturday. As Fabian Ardaya of the Athletic observes (on X), it seems likely the Dodgers will turn to Bobby Miller to take the ball tomorrow instead. Miller has been on optional assignment since shorty before the All-Star Break but is traveling with the MLB club on the taxi squad. Miller has continued to struggle over three Triple-A starts since being demoted. He hasn’t pithed in a week, though, so he’ll likely be recalled.
There’s nothing to suggest that Glasnow is in for an extended absence. Losing him for at least two weeks is nevertheless another blow to a rotation that has gotten hit hard by injury. The Dodgers are without Yoshinobu Yamamoto because of a rotator cuff strain and have been without Tony Gonsolin, Dustin May and Emmet Sheehan all season. Each of Gonsolin, May and Sheehan have undergone significant arm surgeries. Top prospect River Ryan is joining them in that regard. He’s headed for Tommy John surgery and might be out until 2026.
Clayton Kershaw and Walker Buehler recently returned from extended injury absences. Miller lost a couple months to a shoulder problem and has looked like a shell of his rookie self since returning. The Dodgers acquired Jack Flaherty in one of the biggest deadline deals, though he’s not without health questions himself. Rookie righty Gavin Stone has stepped up as a surprisingly crucial rotation piece, taking the ball 22 times and turning in a 3.63 ERA through 121 1/3 innings.
Wrobleski’s appearance tonight is expected to be a spot start. That’d leave L.A. with a rotation of Flaherty, Stone, Kershaw, Buehler and Miller for the next few weeks. They’ll obviously hope for Glasnow to return in short order. Their offseason trade acquisition has been fantastic when healthy, working to a 3.49 ERA while striking out more than 32% of batters faced over 22 starts. This season’s 134 innings is already his career high in any major or minor league season.
Durability has long been the biggest question with Glasnow, who lost most of the 2022 season to Tommy John surgery. His IL placement early this year was a lot less concerning. Glasnow was out for a minimal 15-day stint around the All-Star Break because of lower back inflammation — an injury break that also served as a check on his escalating workload.
The Dodgers felt relatively comfortable with their place in the division at that time. Hot streaks by the Padres and Diamondbacks have closed the gap, cutting L.A.’s lead in the NL West to two games. The Dodgers remain a near lock to make the postseason, but they’re not cruising to the division title the way that most had expected.
Getting healthier by October still remains the team’s biggest priority. Their rotation was decimated by injury by the time the playoffs rolled around a year ago. They went into the postseason relying on Miller and a clearly diminished version of Kershaw who was pitching through a shoulder injury that required surgery. The Diamondbacks swept them out of the Division Series on their path to the NL pennant.
The Dodgers aren’t at last year’s panic level right now. Flaherty has pitched like a potential Game 1 starter this year. Glasnow may be back well in advance of the postseason. Yamamoto is hoping for a return late in the regular season; he threw a 17-pitch simulated game this afternoon as he starts to rebuild his arm strength (relayed on X by Mike DiGiovanna of the Los Angeles Times). There’s still a path for the Dodgers running a playoff rotation comprising Glasnow, Yamamoto, Flaherty and one of Stone or Kershaw.
Los Angeles will get some help on the pitching staff tomorrow, albeit in the bullpen. DiGiovanna tweets that the team will reinstate Ryan Brasier from the 60-day injured list. The righty has been out since late April on account of a significant calf strain. L.A. already has an opening on the 40-man roster after designating Amed Rosario for assignment earlier in the week.
No bueno. Would rather it be now than later. Gotta get these guys healthy. Post season is coming.
Where they’ll be eliminated in the first round (again).
Oh god! The kid is back.
Never would have expected this.
He will be ok. Better to take precaution than to keep nagging at an inflamed elbow. Hes thrown a lot this year also and needs a break man. Guys are getting wore down.
And even when all the Tommy John Arms come back don’t expect them to be their former selves right away. Some may never get back to where they were prior to the surgery.
Look for the Dodgers to have a full stable of pitchers for the 2026 season.
And Andy Friedman needs to plan accordingly for that this off season.
Something’s in the water in la or pitchers are made of glass. I wouldn’t expect a full stable any year.
A pitcher with an elbow injury?
Say it ain’t so!
Manfred Surgery
His arm is glass now.
Possibly a little gaming of the system to keep Glasnow fresh for the postseason – he’s already at a career high in innings. Let’s hope it’s nothing serious!
Yes, this is the hopeful explanation. Also, they have no bullpen roster flexibility, and would have had to DFA someone otherwise.
Bro in the old days glasnow would be at 200 innings at this point in the season
But it is a good thing to prioritize health over stats
Career high in innings and starts. Color me shocked.
Edit: this was literally clicked to be an original comment. Website fail
Doubtful they are about to finish third in the division.
think you have LAD confused with the 9 games out third place Mets
Well they are in different divisions. Is that the problem, did you think it was the Mets chasing the Dodgers for the division?
Thanks for clearing that up. The Mets aren’t chasing anyone for their division. As for the Snakes and Friars IF they were in the East the Mets would be fifth.
I thought you just said they were nine games back? They were 18 games back a month and half ago. The Phillies are losing to everyone. Oh wait not everyone. They pound on the Dodgers. I guess you shouldn’t talk about the NL east when the Dodgers can’t win that either.
I’d say see you in October but the Mets won’t be there, will they? As for the East in 2024 LAD are 3-0 against the Braves and 4-2 over the Mets. And 1-5 with Phils, Of course that was with half of a team. But you hold onto your fantasies pal.
I’m curious to know how you think this year’s Dodgers are any different than last year’s. They certainly are not great at Dodging the IL…..
I’ll take “things that have no chance of happening” for $1000, Alex!
/s
Not surprised at all.
Water is not wet. It’s a liquid that makes things wet.
If you pour water on ice, is it wet?
Yes? Unless it’s dry ice. Then it’s dry.
Touche
I hope you didn’t get into a lot of student loan debt with whoever taught you that.
Haha heavens no. Someone always says “water is wet” when a frequently injured person goes on the shelf and I just jumped the gun on this one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well an English teacher would tell you that but a scientist would tell you that water is wet. Water liquid molecules are surrounded by other liquid molecules by definition making it wet.
“Most scientists define wetness as a liquid’s ability to maintain contact with a solid surface, meaning that water itself is not wet.”
sciencefocus.com/science/is-water-wet
“Wet” is a function of the ability of a liquid to maintain contact with a solid surface, resulting from intermolecular interactions when the two are brought together.
It’s a function of both the liquid and the surface it’s interacting with.
No the exact definition is
covered or saturated with water or another liquid.
Hey guys, now list all the synonyms for the word extraneous
Irrelevant, immaterial, besides the point, unrelated, disconnected, tangential…
Sorry, no. Read the article. If there is no interaction with the surface, the surface is not wet.
Good for your article. That’s not the definition.
They don’t call him Glass-now for nothing
how original
When it comes to a full rotation, the Dodgers may need to… break the glass now. Eeeeh?!
He’s too obsessed with velo and spin. Can never stay healthy. Working against himself. I say this as a huge Glasnow fan.
Shocking
had a hunch they would skip his start but they needed a roster spot, hence the IL stint
In the first paragraph it says pithed. I’m sure you meant pitched.
Maybe it’s time for the trainer to stick a catheter into Miller, or he may pith his panths while on the mound.
I dunno. If Miller hasn’t pithed in a week his problem is obviously dehydration.
Maybe we can put in a bid for Snell when the time comes
Let’s just call it the rest list
Truth. In today’s game pitchers are put on the IL especially at this time of year essentially for being tired.
This^^^ 100%
double down
well quite obviously you should be a GM
DeLuca and his 55 OPS+ a future stud?
I’ll give him Pepiot. He’s got the goods. But Jonny D is a journeyman.
Jan6: dude you have no clue what you’re talking about.
proving my point.
“This is the biggest choke job in history. ”
How long have you been watching baseball? 3 years?
How come in some versions of the story Yamamoto has been out with a rotator cuff issue, while in others it’s a “triceps strain”?? I don’t think those are the same thing, but they could be. Does anybody really know why Yamamoto has been out for so long?
rotator cuff strain
This is why other teams should beware of picking up pitchers from the Rays, esp finally oft-injured ones. The way they ‘fix’ pitchers is by stressing pitcher arms to get more spin on the ball or throw upper-90s. Really unsustainable. Glassnow is talented but the Rays unlocked that talent at the cost of health.
You know, you are absolutely right. I never really thought about it from that perspective, but all of their big name starters suffered significant injuries post-trade.
No mention of Landon Knack in the entire article???
Playing the Cardinals is a great time for every team to rest their regular starters.
Can’t buy a championship!!
Nope. But you can buy the best players.
Yes, to sit comfortably on the IL!
Guess best is up for debate. Truth is no matter how much you get the “best” players it doesn’t mean it’s going to work or fit. The dodgers very well can still win but it goes to show you that ridiculous offseason means jack
I’m sure it means jack to you.
On another note, I am enjoying the division race. 3 good teams. The final 6 weeks should be fun.
A lot of my Dodger fan friends are saying the same thing – enjoying the rare regular season competition. It has to get a little boring being 15 games up most Augusts.
But hey any tips on how to beat the Rockies? They seem to own my Pads.
Cool story
All honesty didn’t expect it this close.
Can’t wait until they all have to go a minimum of 6.
never happen
“This season’s 134 innings is already his career high in any major or minor league season.”
Misleading at best
He pitched 140 innings in 2016
He pitched 155.3 innings in 2017
Point is that he’s never made it thru a full season taking regular turns.
dodgers
“Point is that he’s never made it thru a full season taking regular turns.”
If that’s the point, they should say that instead of something that’s not that and misleading
Many people believe they are skilled at predicting random events. Nobody is, in reality, but without that belief we could not have lottos or Las Vegas. So it’s all good, I guess. I mean, if you like lottos and Las Vegas.
Bluster and memory lapses often go hand in hand. For the rest of us, insurance companies invented the “act of god” as a sufficient excuse.
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Well it sounded good at the time
Consistent injuries are not random, they are consistent.
Only if they are actually consistent, meaning chronic vs. acute. If you don’t know what these words mean you should look them up.
Constantly recurring. vs experienced to a severe or intense degree. BOTH apply to Glasnow..
Elbow or forearm 4 times in 4 different seasons including now,
Back 2 times in 2 different seasons
Hamstring 2 times in 2 different seasons
Oblique
3 of the 4 stated causes are recurring. ALL are acute or they wouldn’t be forcing him to the IL.
And those are just the times he went on the IL during the season or was shut down in spring training and was forced to start the season on the IL.
Glasnow is consistently injured with recurring injuries.
Not… really. Chronic does mean a recurring condition, but in a medical context, acute means one of short duration.
His injury report includes a hamstring injury just once, at the beginning of this season. This is, as we know, the single-most common baseball injury. Connecting it to a “history” is virtually impossible even in players who injury it repeatedly. Bottom line, as a non-doctor without any access to medical records claiming any player is “injury prone” is pure guesswork.
Now I know you are not serious, just trying to bury your head deeper. Get over it. Glasnow is a consistently and continuously hurt player.
His “cramp” was in his hamstring. Elbow 4 times. Back twice. That is consistent injuries in the same place.
You can continue to bury your head in the sand. I am not you. I keep my head in reality.
Sweet. This is merely your own version of reality. Elbow three times, for instance. I know this because I can count. This time he insisted he could pitch through the soreness. The team decided to give him the time off. So not even three, in fairness. And so on. But if this is your attitude, I guess I can be glad not to be you.
So when these greedy pigs get another purchase back, Brasier, who do they throw out of the bullpen like yesterday’s garbage for the LA-style latest shiny toy? Kelly? Banda?
MS
Damn the Dodgers for forcing players to take their money
Mickey I chalked you up to simply being a crazy angry crank.
But you are really very stupid.
Still didn’t answer my question. Who is getting thrown out of the pen? Grove?
Hey Mickey! Where have you been? Oh right. Grammar schools started on Thursday. Good luck!
Grove. Kelly is next. What have you done for me lately? That’s the LA way. Your 15 minutes of fame are up…
Not at all surprised by this turn of events and the Dodgers FO had to know that this situation was lurking as he approached and surpassed the most innings he’s ever pitched in a season. That’s the risk they took, done so on the bet that others would stay healthy. They haven’t won too many bets this year and have been buoyed by the arm talent in their system.
I was never much of a fan of the trade to begin with. Then, to throw all that money to a pitcher that had never made more than 21 starts in a season and threw over 100 innings twice his entire career. To top it off, gave up a much younger quality arm in Pepiot. I said at the time they should have kept Pepiot and just sign Lorenzen on a 1 year “prove it” deal. Oh well. Go Dodgers.
A lot of SPs just went on short term IL, a step many teams take when the fatigue of August sets in. He might be just fine.
According to Juan Toribio on mlb.com:
“Roberts said Glasnow tried to convince the organization that he didn’t need an IL stint and was adamant about wanting to make his start on Saturday. The Dodgers, however, will continue to be careful with the 30-year-old, who is already at a career high with 134 innings pitched this season.“
Glasnow better know what happens to snitches….
Glasnow May 2018 in Pitt was going nowhere with his 96 mph fastball and 80 Curve with no command.
Then the message came from Roger Beshens, Tyler 2 or 4 seam on label and throw it like a Football, Stiff wrist.
In June 2018 the Rays noticed Glas with the Roger Beshens Football Slider.
There was no he learned it in TB, Kyle Snyder is no pitching guru, Peter Bendix is no genius.
Roger Beshens talks to Brent Strom almost daily.
Glasnow, Flaherty…throw the Roger Beshens Football Slider but so do the Padres, Cease, King, Musgrove….So do the Dbacks, Gallen, Pfaadt, Ginkel, Thompson, Puk, Nelson… Sewald won’t be FOUND in High Leverage.
Who ever throws it the best wins the World Series every year.
Glasnow is fine, They need Glasnow and Flaherty game 1 and 2.