The Los Angeles Dodgers supplied an unlucky replace concerning Tommy Edman’s ankle damage.
The utility star and reigning NLCS MVP aggravated his ankle damage final week whereas enjoying in opposition to the Arizona Diamondbacks, in response to president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman.
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“He form of aggravated it final week in Arizona enjoying the outfield,” stated Friedman. “He’ll do no matter. However I believe the perfect probability for us to maintain him rising robust proper now’s restrict the quantity of motion within the outfield. And so not less than for proper now that’s our thought and hopefully we get some days and hold going and it progressively will get higher and higher and form of opens that up. However proper now we’re erring on the facet of warning.”
Edman remains to be going to be obtainable for the Wild Card sequence, however has been coping with a nagging ankle damage for a short time now and appears more likely to be enjoying at second base for the foreseeable future.
He was first positioned on the injured checklist for ankle irritation at the start of Could which saved him out for round three weeks, together with a while earlier than touchdown on the IL. He then sprained his ankle in direction of the beginning of August which saved him sidelined for somewhat over a month.
Within the 67 video games he has performed since his activation in Could, Edman is hitting simply .213 with a .579 OPS. Edman’s 30 video games he performed earlier than the preliminary ankle problems noticed him hit .252 with 24 RBIs and eight of his 13 complete dwelling runs this season.
Edman, nevertheless, has a knack for turning issues up in October.
After hitting .237 in 37 video games with the Dodgers final season, Edman had a postseason slashline of .328/.354/.508 with an .862 OPS on the street to the Dodgers’ eighth World Collection victory.
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