The Dodgers‘ pitching workers has been ravaged by accidents the final a number of years and that continues with the newest information. Proper-hander Emmet Sheehan has undergone elbow surgical procedure to restore a torn UCL and shall be out for the rest of the 2024 season, the workforce introduced Thursday. The process was carried out by famend surgeon Dr. Neal ElAttrache on Wednesday.
The Dodgers didn’t announce whether or not the surgical procedure was Tommy John or one other variation.
Sheehan, 24, was a rotation hopeful getting into spring coaching, however a forearm damage held him out and he hadn’t pitched in an official recreation all yr. Now we all know he will not in all of 2024. Final season, he debuted within the majors on June 16 and appeared in 13 video games, 11 of which had been begins. He was 4-1 with a 4.92 ERA, 1.19 WHIP and 64 strikeouts towards 26 walks in 60 1/3 innings.Â
The Dodgers entered the season with principally a complete rotation on the injured checklist and never a lot has modified. Sheehan is there together with Clayton Kershaw, Bobby Miller, Dustin Could and Tony Gonsolin. If everybody had been wholesome, that’d be a hell of a rotation for a playoff contender.Â
So far as what they really have, the Dodgers’ present rotation is Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Walker Buehler, James Paxton and Gavin Stone. They’re anticipating to get Miller and Kershaw again within the combine in some unspecified time in the future this season. Miller really is not too removed from a rehab stint whereas Kershaw is as much as 20-pitch bullpen periods.Â
Regardless of all of the accidents, the Dodgers enter Thursday’s recreation 29-16, good for first within the NL West by 7.5 video games.Â
