When the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Tanner Scott to four-year, $72 million deal last offseason, it made a lot of sense in the context of the 2024 season he was coming off of. <\/p>\n
Scott tossed a 1.75 ERA through 72 innings of work last season, earning 22 saves and his first All-Star appearance. He had a 97 mph average fastball velocity, placing him in the 91st percentile of MLB, and opposing batters would only hit his offerings with an average exit velocity of 84.3 mph, putting him in the 100th percentile in that regard.<\/p>\n
When he put on a Dodger uniform for the first time, everything went south. <\/p>\n
More news: Dodgers Star Sends Shohei Ohtani Warning to NLCS Opponent<\/a><\/p>\n Scott has a 4.74 ERA through his 61 outings in LA, and leads MLB with 10 blown saves. His fastball velocity has dropped 0.5 mph, and last season’s average exit velocity that he boasted is now at 90.8 mph, putting him in just the 10th percentile among active pitchers. <\/p>\n Scott hasn’t played in the postseason for LA, and a reason contributing to that is a “minor procedure” that manager Dave Roberts recently touched on after Game 3 of the NLDS, leading to Scott being replaced on the NLDS roster ahead of the Dodgers’ advancing to the Championship Series. <\/p>\n \u201cAs I understand it, it was abscess excision, some type of lower body (procedure),\u201d Roberts said after Game 3. \u201cI don\u2019t know a whole lot about it, to be quite honest with you. But I do know that he\u2019s recovering well. And it took place last night. That\u2019s kind of where we\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n General manager Brandon Gomes weighed in on Scott’s situation as well, claiming that the recovery, “sounds like anything from seven days to two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt sounded like it was uncomfortable,\u201d Gomes said. \u201cThen we thought he was on the other side of it. And then it got worse to the point of having to have the procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n