Dodgers right-hander Emmet Sheehan will begin the season on the injured checklist, supervisor Dave Roberts advised reporters, through Jack Harris of the Los Angeles Instances. Sheehan has but to pitch this spring resulting from some shoulder discomfort and what Roberts described as basic physique soreness earlier this week, however he initially indicated a couple of days in the past that Sheehan could possibly be prepared for the Dodgers’ first recreation in North America on March 28.
The 2024 season will get underway sooner than common for the Dodgers, who face the Padres in a two-game collection in Seoul on March 20-21. The staff then has a few days off to recuperate from jet lag earlier than going through the Angels within the last three video games of the spring coaching schedule. Then the Dodgers begin the remainder of their 160-game slate by internet hosting the Cardinals on March 28 when the remainder of the league additionally will get into motion. Technically, a 10-day IL placement for Sheehan may imply that he gained’t miss any regular-season motion given the bizarre nature of the schedule, nevertheless it stands to motive that L.A. will give him as a lot time as he wants to completely recuperate and prepare for normal journeys to the mound.
A sixth-round choose for the Dodgers within the 2021 draft, Sheehan made his MLB debut final season and posted a 4.92 ERA over 60 1/3 innings. Sheehan in all probability wouldn’t have risen to the Present fairly so shortly if the Dodgers hadn’t been so snakebitten by rotation accidents, but he at the least held his personal in opposition to massive league hitters regardless of some unimpressive hard-contact and stroll charges.
Though Sheehan has solely 9 2/3 Triple-A innings on his resume, he did sufficient in his first style of the majors to place himself into the competitors for the fifth spot within the Dodgers’ rotation at first of camp. This harm will now put that quest on maintain, and it would finally flip Sheehan into extra of a Triple-A depth arm relying on how his well being progresses, and the way most of the common starters miss time on the IL.
Since Sheehan is not within the combine, Michael Grove, rookies Gavin Stone and Kyle Damage, and swingman Ryan Yarbrough are all within the operating for begins. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow, James Paxton and Bobby Miller make up the highest 4 within the Los Angeles rotation, and Walker Buehler can be anticipated to start out the season on the IL as he continues his restoration from Tommy John surgical procedure. Clayton Kershaw and Dustin Could must also issue into the combo after the midpoint of the season.
