{"id":304465,"date":"2025-09-10T00:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/304465\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T00:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:18:14","slug":"dodgers-news-alex-vesia-activated-off-injured-list-ben-casparius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/304465\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers news: Alex Vesia activated off injured list, Ben Casparius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Dodgers activated their second player off the injured list in this series against the Rockies, on Tuesday welcoming back left-hander Alex Vesia into the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Vesia is a rare case of missing close to the minimum time on the injured list with an oblique injury, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/dodgers-roster\/102424\/dodgers-roster-alex-vesia-injured-list-blake-snell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his first day eligible to be activated was Sunday<\/a>. Vesia with Oklahoma City on his rehab assignment pitched two perfect innings, with one strikeouts on Wednesday and two on Friday night at Sugar Land in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Vesia on the season has a 2.75 ERA and 3.04 xERA in his 52 1\/3 innings with four saves. He\u2019s tied for second on the team with 59 appearances, and his 33-percent strikeout rate is highest on the team among anyone with at least five innings this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The only two Dodgers relievers with a higher average leverage index than Vesia (1.539) are Tanner Scott (1.891) and Blake Treinen (1.849). Getting Vesia back adds another high-leverage reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/daily-question\/103271\/dodgers-postseason-bullpen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">into manager Dave Roberts\u2019 trust tree<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Max Muncy was the first to be activated off the IL, on Monday, and Tommy Edman could join the reunion if he gets activated on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ben Casparius was the odd man out with Vesia\u2019s return, optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City. With a full six-man rotation and other relievers coming back from the injured list, Casparius has been limited to just 10 innings over the Dodgers\u2019 last 29 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the season, Casparius has a 4.64 ERA and 3.57 xERA with 71 strikeouts 21 walks in 77 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers activated their second player off the injured list in this series against the Rockies, on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,1165,4332,4333,774,57,38707,3224,4331,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-304465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-dodgers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-dodgers","12":"tag-ladodgers","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","15":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers-roster","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesdodgers","18":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115177134771684256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}