{"id":643136,"date":"2026-03-25T19:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/643136\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:53:13","slug":"dodgers-sign-jake-cousins-put-bobby-miller-on-60-day-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/643136\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Sign Jake Cousins, Put Bobby Miller On 60-Day IL"},"content":{"rendered":"

12:25pm: Cousins is guaranteed $950K and can earn an additional $50K via incentives, Ardaya reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

12:13pm: The Dodgers have signed reliever Jake Cousins<\/a> to a major league contract, as first indicated on the MLB.com transaction log<\/a>. The Frontline client will miss most or all of the 2026 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery last June but is controllable via arbitration through 2028. Right-hander Bobby Miller<\/a>, who didn\u2019t pitch this spring due to shoulder troubles, moves to the 60-day IL to open a 40-man roster spot. (Players cannot be signed directly to the 60-day IL, so Miller will head to the 60-day in Cousins\u2019 place, but Cousins will hit the 60-day IL himself when the Dodgers next need a 40-man spot.)<\/p>\n

Cousins, 31, has pitched in parts of four major league seasons. The cousin of NFL quarterback Kirk Cousins has suited up for the Brewers and Yankees to this point in his career, missing bats at huge rates and showing strong ground-ball tendencies but also battling repeated injuries and shaky command. Cousins has pitched 90 2\/3 MLB innings, fanned more than 32% of his opponents, kept 47% of batted balls against him on the ground \u2014 and walked nearly 15% of the batters he\u2019s faced. His career earned run average sits at a tidy 2.78.<\/p>\n

Beyond last year\u2019s UCL surgery, Cousins has been limited in recent years by shoulder inflammation (twice), a pec strain, a biceps strain and right elbow effusion. He\u2019s never pitched 50 innings in a professional season but has consistently been effective when he\u2019s been able to take the mound. He has a career 3.34 ERA in the minors with similarly impressive strikeout numbers. Cousins is a two-pitch reliever who\u2019s averaged 95.3 mph on his sinker in his career and 82.5 mph on a wicked slider he throws at a whopping 61.2% clip.<\/p>\n

At best, Cousins will be an option for the Dodgers late in the 2026 season and perhaps in the postseason, where his potent bat-missing ability could give Los Angeles skipper Dave Roberts an intriguing, under-the-radar option. For the time being, he\u2019s a multi-year reclamation project whose name Dodgers fans can tuck away in the back of their minds.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers also made a number of largely expected IL placements. Tommy Edman<\/a> (recovering from ankle surgery) was placed on the 10-day IL. Pitchers Brock Stewart<\/a> (recovery from shoulder surgery), Gavin Stone<\/a> (shoulder inflammation), Blake Snell<\/a> (shoulder fatigue) and Landon Knack<\/a> all hit the 15-day IL.<\/p>\n

Knack is the lone surprise on the list. The Dodgers haven\u2019t previously indicated that he\u2019s dealing with an injury, and the transaction log does not list a specific injury designation. Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic reports<\/a> that Knack is dealing with an intercostal strain. It\u2019s not clear how much time he\u2019s expected to miss, but he\u2019ll be down for at least the first couple weeks of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"12:25pm: Cousins is guaranteed $950K and can earn an additional $50K via incentives, Ardaya reports. 12:13pm: The Dodgers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,114,1522,6440,1523,2283,1539,880],"class_list":["post-643136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-blake-snell","tag-bobby-miller","tag-brock-stewart","tag-gavin-stone","tag-jake-cousins","tag-landon-knack","tag-tommy-edman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116291568574575211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643136","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=643136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}