Although many pitching choices have made nice progress from their accidents in latest weeks, one Dodger reliever stays sidelined from his harm from just a few weeks in the past.
In response to supervisor Dave Roberts, Yency Almonte’s knee harm hasn’t been therapeutic in addition to the crew has hoped and the bullpen arm remains to be a methods away from coming again to the roster.
Yency Almonte can be on the IL with a knee harm. Roberts mentioned he’s nonetheless “two, three weeks away” from returning.
by way of Invoice Plunkett, OC Register
Almonte was ending a recreation towards the Rockies when he landed awkwardly and couldn’t full the outing regardless of being one out away from ending the win.
Limping off the sphere, it was revealed that Almonte suffered an MCL sprain in one other occasion of a Dodger reliever with a knee situation hindering his season.
Although not as efficient this season, Almonte’s rebirth with LA has been nicely documented along with his utilization of the sweeper as an offspeed pitch along with his fastball.
Almonte pitched to a 1.02 ERA in simply over 35 innings for the Dodgers final 12 months and was an integral a part of Roberts’ bullpen choices this season as nicely.
It’s one other unlucky roadblock in what’s been a poor exhibiting from Almonte in 2023 as his ERA has considerably risen to over 5 earlier than getting injured.
Nevertheless, the crew has been fairly profitable despite Almonte and different bullpen choices not being as efficient as they have been in 2022.
With a document over 30 video games above .500 this season, Los Angeles is in acquainted territory with their expectations firmly centered on the postseason as soon as extra.
Whether or not or not these postseason plans will contain Almonte stays to be seen, however we will solely hope that the righty returns to motion wholesome for this 12 months and past.
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