{"id":656928,"date":"2026-05-08T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656928\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:54:08","slug":"dodgers-blake-snell-update-is-bad-news-for-nl-west-mlb-hitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656928\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers&#8217; Blake Snell update is bad news for NL West, MLB hitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> are getting a two-time Cy Young Award winner back from injury on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByJackHarris\/status\/2052839685756739702?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jack Harris of The California Post <\/a>reports that left-hander Blake Snell has been reinstated from the 15-day injured list and will start Saturday&#8217;s game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Snell, 33, will be making his season debut after dealing with shoulder fatigue. When healthy, he&#8217;s one of the best starting pitchers in baseball, adding an All-Star arm to an already loaded Los Angeles rotation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Snell made 11 starts and posted a 2.35 ERA with 72 strikeouts in 61.1 innings. Walks continue to be a glaring issue, keeping him from pitching deep into ballgames.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/baseballsavant.mlb.com\/savant-player\/blake-snell-605483?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">relies heavily on a four-seam fastball<\/a>, changeup, and curveball, throwing his slider just 11% of the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/chicago-cubs\/news\/cubs-have-huge-pete-crow-armstrong-hitting-problem\/8a75bb2c87bbfd840c2958fd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pete Crow-Armstrong is still struggling to hit well for the Cubs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As back-to-back World Series champions, the Dodgers already have several stars on their roster, even without Snell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers\/news\/dodgers-blake-snell-near-return-signals-much-needed-change-struggling-roki-sasaki\/af2643add0b7e8f7ffecd47a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">His return<\/a> will make them that much harder to face, especially if he can stay healthy for a potential three or five-game postseason series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers are getting a two-time Cy Young Award winner back from injury on Saturday.\u00a0 Jack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-656928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656928","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=656928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}