The Dodgers have acquired right-hander Ryan Loutos from the Cardinals in trade for money and claimed righty J.P. Feyereisen off waivers from the Diamondbacks, experiences Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. The Loutos commerce was beforehand reported by Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Put up-Dispatch. The Dodgers moved righties Blake Treinen and Michael Kopech to the 60-day injured record to open 40-man roster spots for the 2 pickups.
Loutos, 26, has had a considerably uncommon trajectory to the large leagues, as explored on this profile from Goold final yr. On account of his laptop science background, the Playing cards employed him to develop an app to assist minor leaguers use knowledge, and let him pitch as properly. “I do know what I have to do to enhance. I do know what I might do,” Loutos mentioned. “However I additionally know from their footwear what they see: ‘OK, let him play for some time. See what occurs. Worst-case state of affairs, we possibly provide him a job within the entrance workplace. Greatest-case state of affairs, possibly he’s within the large leagues sometime.’”
To date, the taking part in half has labored out okay. He made his main league debut final yr, although it was transient. He tossed 2 1/3 scoreless innings over three appearances. From the beginning of 2023 to the current, he has logged 134 innings on the farm with a 5.10 earned run common, 24.2% strikeout charge and 10.7% stroll charge.
Feyereisen, 32, has a for much longer large league monitor document. In 2021, he tossed 56 innings between the Brewers and Rays with a 2.73 ERA. He managed to prime that efficiency in 2022, tossing 24 1/3 scoreless innings, with a 29.1% strikeout charge and 5.8% stroll charge. Nonetheless, a shoulder harm intervened and stopped him from constructing on these numbers.
He underwent shoulder surgical procedure and was traded to the Dodgers forward of the 2023 season. He hasn’t been in a position to totally re-establish himself within the majors since then. He finally spent that whole 2023 season on the IL, not making an official look wherever. The Dodgers shuttled him to Triple-A and again in 2024. He solely acquired to pitch 11 large league innings, with an 8.18 ERA in these. His 5.48 ERA in Triple-A wasn’t particularly spectacular both.
He was outrighted off the roster final yr, permitting him to elect free company and signal a minor league cope with the Diamondbacks coming into 2025. He acquired known as up a few weeks in the past after posing a 0.96 ERA in Triple-A. He then allowed two earned runs in two innings for the Snakes earlier than getting designated for project and placed on waivers.
For the Dodgers, they’re doubtless pleased to have some contemporary arms, considered one of which they’re already aware of. With Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow each on the IL attributable to shoulder irritation, they’re right down to a four-man rotation of Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, Tony Gonsolin and Dustin Could. The membership is protecting Sasaki and Yamamoto on the weekly schedule the pitchers are accustomed to from their time in Japan.
That state of affairs, plus loads of different accidents, have led to an excessive amount of creativity in cobbling the employees collectively. Pitchers like Landon Knack, Justin Wrobleski, Bobby Miller and Ben Casparius have made spot begins. Yoendrys Gómez, lately claimed off waivers from the Yankees, is working a protracted aid function. Each Loutos and Feyereisen have choices, so the Dodgers are including some arms with some roster flexibility. The crew is about to begin a stretch of taking part in ten straight video games. After one off-day, they’ll play one other 9 straight.
To open spots for these two, Kopech and Treinen hit the 60-day IL. Kopech’s transfer isn’t particularly stunning. He’s been on the 15-day IL all yr lengthy attributable to a shoulder impingement and nonetheless hasn’t begun a rehab project. Even when he had been to begin one now, he would want a number of weeks as a kind of delayed spring coaching. He might be reinstated from the IL in a few weeks however that doesn’t appear to be doubtless.
The transfer for Treinen is extra notable. He began the season wholesome however landed on the 15-day IL April nineteenth attributable to proper forearm tightness. This switch to the 60-day IL signifies the Dodgers don’t count on him again earlier than the center of June. He’s 36 years outdated, turning 37 in June, and has a latest historical past of arm accidents. He solely tossed 5 innings in 2022 attributable to shoulder issues after which underwent surgical procedure which worn out his 2023 marketing campaign.
He acquired again on monitor final yr with a 1.93 ERA in 46 2/3 innings, plus one other 12 1/3 postseason innings with a 2.19 ERA, serving to the Dodgers win the World Sequence. The crew believed in that bounceback sufficient to offer him a two-year, $22MM deal in free company, the biggest deal for a reliever going into his age-37 season or older since Mariano Rivera’s cope with the Yankees again in 2010.
Shortly after Treinen landed on the IL final month, supervisor Dave Roberts described the harm as a “low-grade sprain of the forearm” and downplayed the severity by saying “we’re within the dodged-a-bullet class.” It’s unclear if Roberts was simply masking the extent of the harm or if one thing modified, however Treinen now seems to be slated for an absence of a minimum of a few months.
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