One of the best-laid plans of mice and baseball managers usually go awry.
On Monday, Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned the plan was for reliever Blake Treinen to be activated from the injured record on Thursday.
“If Blake comes out of [his sim game] properly, which I assume he had, a Thursday activation could be very possible.”
Nicely, these plans have modified, and it’s not nice information for Treinen. Wednesday’s replace from Roberts revealed that Treinen didn’t “come out of it properly” like they’d hoped.
If everyone is healthy, the Dodgers have 16-18 pitchers with an honest case to be on the 13-man postseason pitching employees. However in baseball, it’s by no means the case that everybody is wholesome, particularly (it appears) with the Dodgers. That is the workforce that had 4 beginning outfielders — Yasiel Puig, Matt Kemp, Carl Crawford, and Andre Ethier — for a year-and-a-half with out it each actually being a problem. For that matter, the one means 16-18 pitchers make a case for the postseason roster is that if all of them get loads of time on the mound as a result of others have been injured.
So we’re again to the concept that Treinen might not be available for the postseason, at the very least the third time we’ve been there this season. Virtually talking, it’s not the worst information on the earth, just because the Dodgers have had an especially efficient bullpen all 12 months regardless of throwing a grand complete of 5 innings thus far. The weapons are there to have a really efficient October bullpen.
However Treinen was L.A.’s finest reliever in 2021, so there’s at all times been an undercurrent of, “The bullpen is that this good now, simply wait till Treinen comes again.” That return is as soon as once more unsure, which is deflating for Dodger followers.
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