The right -hander Michael Grove will not present the Dodgers this year after having undergone an late season operation last week to repair his right labrum.
Grove entered the Dodgers clubhouse with his right arm in a scarf on Sunday morning, but quietly refused to speak with journalists. He launched a few enclosure sessions from the Spring this spring, but has not launched a match since his injury in the second match in the Division series against the Padres. In this appearance in the playoffs, he abandoned a home run at Xander Bogaerts and then withdrew Jake Cronenworth. He was removed from the list after this match.
“It’s a shoulder problem that bothers him, I don’t know how far,” said Dave Roberts, the Dodger manager. “He tried to do it and recovery was not what we would have liked. We tried the rest approach and we just thought we had to do the surgery. »»
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Grove underwent Tommy John surgery in 2017.
“He is disappointed,” said Roberts. “He did not want to do another surgical intervention, and he tried, you know, to finish and launch it, but that would simply compromise his performance and his recovery. He was ready to compete for a job this year. »»
Grove, 28, called for a place in the enclosure of the readers after having gone 4-4 with an MPM of 5.12 in 51 rounds, mainly in relief, last year. He withdrew 54 strikers and walked 16 years. A second round choice in the 2018 draft, Grove made his debut in the big league in 2022 then launched in 18 games, launching 69 rounds, a year later. It was re-signed this month to a one year contract for the minimum of the major league of $ 760,000.
Snell makes progress with a new team
The left-hander Blake Snell fought on a 3/3 trembling rounds on Sunday, abandoning four points over five strokes, including a Home Run solo for Drew Avans, during the 7-5 defeat of the Cactus League of Dodgers against Athletics. But it was like progress since the release was the longest in spring for Snell, who made 67 throws, withdrawing five, walking one and hitting 97 MPH with his quick ball.
“I’m happy,” he said about speed. “Towards the end, I was just trying to strike. I lost the feeling a little. But overall, I felt good.
Snell, twice the Cy Young Award winner, Snell signed a free agent of $ 182 million over five years in November, making Dodgers the fourth team he presented since 2020. He said that adapting to new teammates and a new environment was easier this year.
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“The first time I did it was quite difficult for me,” said Snell, who has spent the last two seasons with San Diego and San Francisco. “Learn myself, learn from coaches, learn players, don’t go, you know, try to impress people.
“(It’s) just more than myself, that I do the right things.”
Snell is expected to make its next appearance in one of the two Dodgers spring training exhibitions in Japan next weekend.
You go there and get representatives, so you just learn, “he said. “You abandon yourself a blow, it’s like OK, what did I do?” What did I hurt? Do I like that? Was it a good swing, or was it a bad field?
“You are just a little calibrated. At the start of the season, you have a better idea of ​​what you do. But you learn and you always calibrate. It just takes a while. It’s a bit where I am. I continue to improve myself. “”
Notes planning
Although Roberts gives Mookie Betts and Michael Comforto one day before the team leaves for Japan on Wednesday, he plans to stick to most of his regulars in the last two Dodgers games in Arizona.
“Mookie will leave tomorrow, then he will play on Tuesday. Comforto will play tomorrow; He will not play on Tuesday, ”said Roberts. “But I think that for the most part, you will see the ordinary guys.”
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
