Dodgers left-hander Julio Urias was set to be activated from the 15-day injured record to start out tomorrow’s sport towards the Phillies, however supervisor Dave Roberts tells reporters (together with Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic) that these plans have been placed on maintain after Urias didn’t bounce again absolutely from Thursday’s bullpen session. Ardaya notes that whereas Urias has not been shut down from throwing, he’ll be restricted to throwing off flat floor in the meanwhile, and can doubtless want a rehab task earlier than he can return to the membership’s rotation.
The information is a blow to the Dodgers, who not too long ago put right-hander Noah Syndergaard on the IL the place he and Urias are joined by the likes of Ryan Pepiot, Walker Buehler, and Dustin Could. Urias was anticipated to assist stabilize a rotation that at present solely has 4 set starters in Clayton Kershaw, Tony Gonsolin, Bobby Miller, and Michael Grove. Whereas right-hander Gavin Stone is wholesome within the minors, Roberts famous that the 24-year-old right-hander isn’t an possibility for this coming flip by the rotation after the teen pitched 4 1/3 innings in a begin on the Triple-A degree yesterday.
That leaves the Dodgers doubtless set to make the most of a bullpen sport on Sunday. Whereas Gonsolin could be on common relaxation if he have been to start out Sunday, the Dodgers appeared poised to make the most of their coming off-day on Monday to relaxation their rotation, which a bullpen sport on Sunday would nonetheless permit them to do. Andre Jackson and Justin Bruihl are the opposite Triple-A pitchers at present on the 40-man roster for the Dodgers.
As for Urias, his begin to the 2023 season has absolutely not been the platform marketing campaign he hoped for forward of his anticipated free company this winter. Urias entered this season with a profession 2.82 ERA and three.44 FIP in 599 2/3 innings of labor following a very stellar 2022 marketing campaign the place he led the NL in ERA whereas ending high three in Cy Younger award voting. All that figured to make Urias maybe probably the most coveted free agent of the approaching offseason this aspect of Shohei Ohtani, and whereas that definitely may nonetheless show to be the case, Urias’s harm woes and pedestrian 4.39 ERA in ten begins this season have completed little to spice up his resume forward of his first foray into free company.
