Roki Sasaki injury: Dodgers Pitcher lands on IL with shoulder problems after fastball loses the speed

The Los Angeles Dodgers have lost another starting jug through injury. The estimated right-handed Roki Sasaki was placed on the 15-day injured list with an increase in the right shoulder, the team said on Tuesday. Righty JP Feyereisen was called in a corresponding step. Clayton Kershaw will essentially replace Sasaki in rotation When he returns Saturday.

“Afterwards he was a bit sore (his last start),” said Dodger's manager Dave Roberts on Tuesday (about the Los Angeles Times) about Sasaki. “And that's something that we still want to find out somehow. What is normal, what is not normal.”

The 23-year-old Sasaki has gradually lost speed of his fast ball with high octane this season, and the loss of speed is a classic sign of shoulder control. His heating had an average of 98.1 miles per hour at his first MLB start. In his last start, last Friday against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Sasaki achieved an average of 94.8 miles per hour and threw no space over 97.1 miles per hour. Sometimes he was only 92 miles per hour.

In eight starts this season, Sasaki has a 4.72 ERA with almost as many walks (22) such as strikes (24) in 34 1/3 innings. His fastball was hit quite hard even at the top speeds. Hitter missed only 10.1% of their fluctuations against his heating, less than half of the average fleet of 21.3% of the league for four-soul. Obviously, the young man is far from a finished product.

Including Kershaw and Sasaki, the Dodgers currently have nine starting jugs on the injured list. Your rotation depths look like this at the moment:

1. RHP Shohei Ohtani (Rehabilitation from elbow surgery)
2. Rhp yoshinobu yamamoto
3. LHP Blake Snell (with shoulder inflammation out)
4. RHP Tyler Glasnow (with shoulder inflammation out)
5. LHP Clayton Kershaw (Will give the Saison debut on Saturday)
6. RhP Roki Sasaki (with shoulder tension)
7. RHP Dustin Mai
8. RhP Tony Gonsolin
9. RhP Gavin Stone (Will miss shoulder surgery in 2025)
10. RHP Landon Knack
11. RHP Bobby Miller
12. LHP Justin Wrobleski
13. RHP River Ryan (will miss Tommy John Operation in 2025)
14. RHP Emmet Shehan (Will miss most of 2025 with Tommy John Operation)
15. Rhp kyle injured (Will miss most of 2025 with Tommy John Operation)

Glasnow thrown again last week and was able to throw this home stand a bullpen, said Roberts on Tuesday. Snell should meet with his doctor on Tuesday and bring the Dodgers to ohtani very slowly. He continues to throw a hill, but there is no fixed schedule for him to confront the rackets and to beat in any kind of game setting.

Despite a salary statement that increases 400 million US dollars, the Dodgers used 11 different start jugs in 41 games. No team used. This is partly according to design. The Dodgers almost use the regular season as a rotation. Their priority is to go in the best position in October, so that all their pitching decisions are made with the overall picture.

The Dodgers competed on Tuesday with baseball with 27 to 14. However, they begin to cross the limits of their pitching depth. This is an extreme number of pitching injuries, even for a team that is not afraid of jugs with risk of injury.