Tanner Scott<\/a>, who joined the Dodgers before last season on a four-year, $72-million deal. Scott struggled to find his footing, primarily as a closer, before a left elbow injury placed him on injured list in mid-July, causing him to miss a month of action. He returned the final week of August, and never looked quite right. Scott posted a 4.74 ERA across 61 appearances and 57.0 IP in his first year with the Dodgers.<\/p>\nOn Saturday against the Chicago Cubs in a split-squad game at Camelback Ranch, Scott made his Cactus League debut and pitched a scoreless inning, recording a strikeout and giving up one hit on 17 pitches. With the ninth inning spoken for, Roberts believes this will allow for Scott to bounce back this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think being able to use Tanner in any inning of leverage, is going to be good for him,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s going to be good for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
D\u00edaz, for his part, has settled in, making his second and final appearance of the spring on Saturday before he joins Team Puerto Rico for the World Baseball Classic. He worked around two walks to pitch a scoreless inning, striking out one. Vesia, who missed the World Series due to the death of his newborn daughter, has pitched two scoreless innings while Treinen pitched a perfect inning on Thursday against the Chicago White Sox in his first Cactus League outing.<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old Treinen, who\u2019s been on all three of the Dodgers\u2019 recent World Series teams and was a stalwart in the 2024 postseason, struggled last season, going 1-5 with a 9.64 ERA in September.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never know what the body throttles back,\u201d Treinen said earlier in camp. \u201cI had a UCL injury, so I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s part of the problem, but something was different. I mean, velocity was there, movements were there, execution wasn\u2019t, and when pitches were in the zone, it was a harder-hit rate. So, that tells me something was different, how to handle hitters. So, just trying to go back and cleaning things up to where the ball does more of what it has done most of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the flip side, right-hander Brusdar Graterol \u2014 who has not pitched since the 2024 World Series \u2014 remains in a holding pattern during spring training as he works his way back from right labrum surgery. And right-hander Evan Phillips is not expected back for several months after Tommy John surgery ended his season last June. But for the most part, the relievers who are healthy have shown glimpses of what it could look like this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think that there\u2019s one way to manage a pen,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cBut when you have a guy like Edwin D\u00edaz as your closer, I do think it frees up other guys. … I think that\u2019s freeing for me and allows for getting the matchups we need in the prior innings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> PHOENIX \u2014 By Game 7 of last year\u2019s World Series, the Dodgers\u2019 faulty bullpen issues were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[432,92551,426,8797,423,48,52,51,3376,7036,47,50,49,2504,424,595,45662,4467,36991,92550,4470],"class_list":["post-199050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-blake-snell","tag-bullpen-shape","tag-dodgers","tag-edwin-diaz","tag-game","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-season","tag-last-year","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-regular-season","tag-roberts","tag-saturday","tag-scott","tag-snell","tag-spring-training","tag-treinen","tag-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}