Cody Snavely
Prior to yesterday’s 7-6 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, the Los Angeles Dodgers placed right-handed pitcher Tyler Glasnow on the 15-day injured list with elbow tendonitis.
It is another blow to the Dodgers starting rotation, which has a laundry list of pitching injuries this season, including the season-ending UCL sprain that rookie pitcher River Ryan sustained last week in his start against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Glasnow, 30, has been one of the best starting pitchers in the National League this season and has taken a considerable step forward in his career. He has pitched to a 3.49 ERA, 2.91 FIP, 32.2 K%, and 6.7 BB% while also ranking third in the league with one hundred sixty-eight strikeouts.
Glasnow has had plenty of injury history throughout his career thus far and has already undergone his own Tommy John Surgery in 2021, which made him miss most of the 2022 season.
Glasnow would return and pitch his best season in 2023, throwing a then career-high one hundred twenty innings that season despite missing some time with an oblique injury.
Despite that injury risk, the Dodgers not only traded for Tyler Glasnow, giving up a great controllable arm in Ryan Pepiot but also signed the righty to a massive five-year, $136.5 million contract extension.
For most of the season, the trade has paid off tremendously for a Dodgers team that was desperate to start pitching in the 2023-2024 offseason.
Just looking at Glasnow’s Baseball Savant page, you’ll see a lot of red. He also ranks in the 96th percentile in Pitching Run Value, 98th in Breaking Run Value, 95th in xERA, and with his 6′,8″ frame ranking in the 99th percentile in Extension.
However, before yesterday’s game, the Dodgers had Glasnow get an MRI, which thankfully showed no structural damage. However, the team and their trainers did not feel comfortable with him making his start in St. Louis.
However, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts stated after yesterday’s game that, after the results, they expect Glasnow to rejoin the Dodgers rotation after the fifteen days are up.
In his place, the Dodgers have called up right-handed pitcher Bobby Miller, who has had a disastrous sophomore season and was optioned down to Triple-A OKC after a career-worst start in Philadelphia before the all-star break.
MLB.com Juan Toribio confirmed that Miller would take Glasnow’s spot in the rotation, not Justin Wrobleski, who was recalled from Triple-A yesterday for a spot start.
It is also not the first time Glasnow was placed on the injured list this season, missing a week after having back tightness before the all-star break, an injury that Glasnow jokingly stated was a side effect of tall man syndrome.
Hopefully, the elbow injury is not as severe as it looks as the thought of any elbow injury; you start to think the words “season-ending” will spit out after that.
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