{"id":729033,"date":"2026-06-11T05:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729033\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:58:24","slug":"dodgers-to-place-will-smith-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/729033\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers To Place Will Smith On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dodgers will place\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=smithwi05,smithwi04,smith-094wil,smith-090wil,smith-091wil&amp;search=Will+Smith&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Will Smith<\/a> on the 10-day injured list tomorrow, manager Dave Roberts told reporters (including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/billplunkettocr\/status\/2064896376815730950\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bill Plunkett of The Orange County Register<\/a>). They\u2019ll select\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/robinch04.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chuckie Robinson<\/a> onto the active roster to back up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rushida01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dalton Rushing<\/a>. L.A. opened the necessary 40-man roster spot by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/06\/dodgers-release-tyler-fitzgerald.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">releasing<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fitzgty01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Fitzgerald<\/a> this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has been nursing a stiff neck for the past few days. He hasn\u2019t played since Friday. The Dodgers can backdate his IL placement for up to three days, so he\u2019ll be down until at least next Wednesday. Roberts downplayed the level of concern.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a relatively slow start to the season for Smith. He\u2019s hitting .249\/.338\/.382 with six home runs in 201 plate appearances. His plate discipline and batted ball metrics are mostly in line with those of previous seasons, so the Dodgers surely aren\u2019t worried. Smith remains on the short list of the best catchers in the sport even if the slight dip may keep him from a fourth straight All-Star appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Rushing, who is hitting .275\/.352\/.532 on the season, would be the #1 catcher on most other teams. He\u2019s more than capable of holding the primary job for what should be a short-term absence. Rushing has started four straight around Monday\u2019s off day. The Dodgers don\u2019t have another day off until next Thursday, so they needed to get a healthy catcher up at some point.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019ll fall to the 31-year-old Robinson, an organizational depth type. He played one game for the Dodgers last September and has had brief MLB stints with the Reds and White Sox. The Dodgers re-signed him on a minor league deal over the offseason and have kept him at Triple-A Oklahoma City. Robinson missed the first month of the season but has come back with a solid .274\/.338\/.466 start over 20 games. He\u2019s a career .131\/.169\/.192 hitter at the big league level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers will place\u00a0Will Smith on the 10-day injured list tomorrow, manager Dave Roberts told reporters (including Bill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,89843,591,85,105221],"class_list":["post-729033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chuckie-robinson","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-will-smith-catcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}