{"id":28149,"date":"2025-07-28T00:46:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28149\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T00:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:46:04","slug":"dodgers-notes-snell-ohtani-rotation-miller-treinen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28149\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Notes: Snell, Ohtani, Rotation, Miller, Treinen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blake Snell<\/a> threw 76 pitches in a rehab start with Triple-A Oklahoma City on Saturday, and it would appear as though this fourth rehab outing will also be the left-hander\u2019s last.\u00a0 Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters (including Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register<\/a>)\u00a0that Snell will be activated from the 60-day injured list this week, and the club will move to a six-man rotation.<\/p>\n

It has been a long road back for Snell, who appeared in just two games for L.A. before shoulder inflammation put him on the shelf in the first week of April.\u00a0 Some renewed soreness in the later part of April led to both an injection in Snell\u2019s shoulder and a shutdown from throwing, which led to this lengthy stint on first the 15-day and eventually the 60-day IL.<\/p>\n

The lingering shoulder problem is the latest setback in Snell\u2019s checkered injury history, adding to his reputation as something of an all-or-nothing pitcher.\u00a0 When Snell is healthy and available, there are few (if any) better pitchers in the game, as evidenced by Snell\u2019s two Cy Young Awards and his tendency to catch fire in later in the season.\u00a0 As we saw just last season with the Giants, Snell battled injuries and ineffectiveness in the first three months of the 2024 campaign before delivering an absurd 1.23 ERA in his final 14 starts and 80 1\/3 innings of action.<\/p>\n

Time will tell if Snell can deliver anything close to that in his return to the Los Angeles rotation, but his impending return should be a nice boost to a Dodgers pitching staff that has been crushed by injuries all year.\u00a0 The move to the six-man rotation reflects this improved rotation health, and the club\u2019s desire to manage everyone\u2019s innings in an attempt to preserve the starters\u2019 arms over the rest of the season and through October.\u00a0 If all goes well, the staff will consist of Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a>, Clayton Kershaw<\/a>, Tyler Glasnow<\/a>, Shohei Ohtani<\/a>, and one of Dustin May<\/a> or Emmet Sheehan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time the Dodgers adopted a six-man rotation, and the ragged nature of the team\u2019s pitching health has already led to a pretty irregular deployment of the starters.\u00a0 There\u2019s also the Ohtani factor, as the two-way star is still slowing building up his innings.\u00a0 Ohtani has tossed three frames in each of his last two starts, with May and Sheehan working as piggyback starters in support.<\/p>\n

Ohtani is now expected to pitch four innings for his next two starts, Roberts said, so the team will be setting aside the piggyback plan for now.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t mean Ohtani is going to be viewed as a regular starter per se, as Roberts explained.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re not going to have the reins off where we\u2019re going to say, \u2019Hey, you can go 110 pitches.\u2019\u00a0 I don\u2019t see that happening for quite some time,\u201d the skipper said.\u00a0 \u201cSo I think that staying at four [innings] for a bit, to then build up to five and we\u2019ll see where we go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohtani\u2019s next two starts will come on Wednesday against the Reds, and then on August 6 against the Cardinals.\u00a0 Notably, the Dodgers don\u2019t play on either of the days following Ohtani\u2019s two scheduled starts, as Roberts said the intent is to give Ohtani some built-in recovery time following his pitching outings before returning to his usual DH duty.<\/p>\n

There is still plenty of fluidity in the six-man rotation plan, so Roberts didn\u2019t want to commit to stating which of May or Sheehan could be remaining in the rotation and which might be moved to bullpen duty.\u00a0 Describing the Dodgers\u2019 pitching depth as a surplus is probably misleading given how more injuries could arise at any time, yet Los Angeles is addressing its number of starters at the Triple-A level by moving Bobby Miller<\/a> from rotation duty to a relief job.<\/p>\n

Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic reported yesterday<\/a> about Miller\u2019s role change, and Roberts confirmed the plan today.\u00a0 \u201cI think that this might be something that unlocks him.\u00a0 Going hard for a shorter period of time, to get some confidence for him, which could help us here,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n

Selected 29th overall by the Dodgers in the 2020 draft, Miller posted a 3.76 ERA over 22 starts and 124 1\/3 innings in his 2023 rookie season, but that promising beginning gave way to an 8.85 ERA in 61 big league innings since Opening Day 2024.\u00a0 Shoulder problems cost Miller two months of the 2024 season but his struggles have continued into this year, including a 5.58 ERA at Triple-A Oklahoma City and continued control issues.\u00a0 Miller\u2019s walk rate (15.4%) is almost as high as his strikeout rate (17.9%) over his rough 69 1\/3 Triple-A frames this year.<\/p>\n

Returning to the Major League bullpen mix, the Dodgers welcomed Blake Treinen<\/a> back from the 60-day injured list today.\u00a0 Left-hander Justin Wrobleski<\/a> was also called up from Triple-A, while righties Edgardo Henriquez<\/a> and Will Klein<\/a> were optioned to Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

Treinen posted a 3.38 ERA over eight relief innings for Los Angeles before right forearm tightness led to almost three and a half months on the sidelines.\u00a0 While the veteran\u2019s health is still a concern given his significant injury history, Treinen was a major bullpen weapon for the Dodgers as recently as last year, when he posted a 1.93 ERA over 46 2\/3 innings in the regular season, and then a 2.19 ERA in 12 1\/3 postseason frames.\u00a0 His return won\u2019t halt the Dodgers\u2019 plan to acquire more high-leverage bullpen help at the deadline, but Treinen could help the club fulfill part of that need from within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Snell threw 76 pitches in a rehab start with Triple-A Oklahoma City on Saturday, and it would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[1490,3977,22164,49,48,13098,15089,10162,22165,462,482,82,22166],"class_list":{"0":"post-28149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-blake-snell","9":"tag-blake-treinen","10":"tag-bobby-miller","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-dustin-may","14":"tag-edgardo-henriquez","15":"tag-emmet-sheehan","16":"tag-justin-wrobleski","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-shohei-ohtani","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-will-klein"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}