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Oct 6, 2024
11:05:28pm
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Have any other teams had the number of pitchers injured year after year like LA?
LAD management (including Dave Roberts) talk about it like it's a league-wide problem. But I'm not aware of other teams coming close to the problems like the Dodgers. Maybe the Dodgers are doing something different that is backfiring on them. If it was the emphasis on velocity, it would be affecting most if not all teams. The injuries are happening despite Dave Roberts' quick hook, so it can't be a matter of overwork. Few LAD pitchers go past the 5th inning.
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"Attrition has come for the Dodgers, who are struggling to come up with much of a foundation to survive three rounds in October. Tyler Glasnow is on the shelf, with a thin margin for a return this season. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is nearing a return after being out since June. Clayton Kershaw’s status is uncertain. Emmet Sheehan, Dustin May and River Ryan are all out for the season. Stone on Friday became the 12th Dodgers starter to land on the injured list, joining eight others still currently on it. Friedman didn’t rule out Stone returning this season, but the odds are slim. The spate of injuries has torn the Dodgers’ offseason plan of addressing their pitching in sheer numbers and left them as uncertain as ever. Twelve arms have made full-fledged starts (not including openers) for the Dodgers this season. Which four start will in October is a different story."


"I think that we clearly don't have the answers to taking care of pitchers and keeping them healthy," Roberts said of the baseball industry at large, which has reckoned with a perceived epidemic of pitching injuries in recent years. "I think the industry is doing the best they can to manage workload, manage pitch count, but clearly we don't have it nailed ... The bottom line is injuries are way up."
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