The Dodgers have positioned right-hander Luis Garcia on the 15-day injured record resulting from a proper adductor pressure. The position is retroactive to Might 29. Righty Noah Davis was known as up from Triple-A within the corresponding transfer.
Now in his thirteenth Main League season, Garcia has a 4.50 ERA in 26 innings for Los Angeles, together with a below-average 19.8% strikeout price and an ungainly 12.9% stroll price. Garcia’s 4.13 SIERA is a little more favorable because the groundball specialist has been hampered by a .364 BABIP, however he’s additionally permitting loads of laborious contact.
Garcia signed a minor league contract with L.A. in February and locked in $1.5MM in assured wage when that contract was chosen upfront of the Dodgers’ early Opening Day in Tokyo. Whereas his outcomes have been up and down over his prolonged profession, Garcia has typically been fairly sturdy, which most likely helped his bid to make the group given the damage woes which have solely worsened for the Dodgers’ pitching employees because the season has developed.
Extremely, Garcia is the fifteenth pitcher at the moment on the group’s injured record. (That quantity could possibly be seen as 16, when you contemplate that Shohei Ohtani continues to be going by his pitching rehab.) Some assist could also be coming quickly, as supervisor Dave Roberts informed MLB.com’s Sonja Chen and different media right now that relievers Michael Kopech and Kirby Yates may each be activated inside the subsequent week.
Getting these two high quality bullpen arms again is a pleasant increase for the group, however for sure, pitching well being is as soon as once more a significant subplot of the Dodgers’ season. Whereas the elite L.A. offense has carried the Dodgers again to first place within the NL West, pitching figures to be a deadline want for Los Angeles no matter what number of hurlers have returned from the IL by July 31.
