![]() ![]() ![]() He received a cortisone injection and won't throw for the next few days, but the Dodgers aren't placing him on the IL just yet. I think he's close to a must-add player as he nears his return, likely next week.Ĭlayton Kershaw acknowledged he's dealing with left shoulder inflammation. Skubal's fastball has been his biggest weakness as a major-leaguer, so the velocity bump is very intriguing. He's now up to 9.2 innings with two earned runs, 13 strikeouts, and just three walks, while his velocity has been up 1-2 mph coming back from surgery to repair a flexor tendon in his elbow. Tarik Skubal (IL, on Rehab Assignment at AAA) – Skubal isn't pitching this weekend, because he just made his third minor-league rehab appearance at Triple-A Thursday and continues to pitch very well. There are a decent number of "TBAs'" on the schedule as I write this, so hopefully we'll get some pleasant surprises, but … well, there's a reason my top guy here isn't actually in the majors right now. That's actually an understatement – I've done this exercise nearly every week this season, and this might be the least inspiring group of widely available pitchers for a weekend slate yet. ![]() But if you held on to him, you have to be feeling better about where things stand right now than you did a month ago.įair warning: I don't really love the streaming/waiver-wire options at starting pitcher this weekend. Maybe he just needed some time to tinker his way back to a mix that worked, or maybe Bieber is just going to be a bit less reliable moving forward. He got 12 swings and misses Thursday, and he finished the month of June with a whiff rate of 34% or better on each of his cutter, slider, and curveball none of those pitches were at that mark before June.īieber is constantly tinkering, and I wasn't sure the reintroduction of his cutter this season was a great idea, but the pitch seems to be coming around as an alternative to his fastball, which remains pretty mediocre. Still, it wasn't that long ago that there seemed to be a widely held belief that Bieber was past the point where you could trust him even against overmatched opponents.īut that's now at least eight strikeouts in three of the past four starts for Bieber, something he accomplished just once in his first 12 starts through the end of May. Sure, it was against the Royals, who have a tendency to look pretty overmatched against basically any right-handed pitcher you throw out there these days. Were reports of Shane Bieber's demise exaggerated? Bieber put together a pretty brilliant performance Thursday, striking out eight with just one walk over six shutout innings to lower his ERA for the month of June to 2.90. ![]()
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