LOS ANGELES \u2014 Tommy Edman was activated off the 60-day injured list on Tuesday after missing the first 73 games of the season following right ankle surgery in November. They get back a multi-positional player who started 32 of 33 postseason games in his first two years with Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
To make room on both the active and 40-man rosters, infielder Santiago Espinal was designated for assignment.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers were methodical with Edman\u2019s rehabilitation from surgery, hoping to finally put behind them the injury that has plagued the switch-hitting utility player since 2024, even before the St. Louis Cardinals traded him to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Edman had a busy three weeks on a rehab assignment for Triple-A Oklahoma City, playing 14 of 18 games for the Comets. He hit .275\/.351\/.392 with a 94 wRC+ in 57 plate appearances, with a home run, triple, double, and stolen base. Edman fared better batting left-handed while on rehab, hitting .300\/.378\/.450 in 45 plate appearances while he had two hits in 11 at-bats batting right-handed in Triple-A.<\/p>\n
During his seven-year career, Edman\u2019s splits have gone the other way, hitting .273\/.314\/.495 with a 118 wRC+ batting righty against left-handed pitching, and .254\/.313\/.373 with a 90 wRC+ batting left-handed.<\/p>\n
With Oklahoma City, Edman started five games at second base, made two starts each at third base, left field, and center field, and also started three times as designated hitter. He\u2019s expected to play multiple positions now that he\u2019s back with the Dodgers, and will start on Wednesday afternoon against Rays left-hander Shane McClanahan.<\/p>\n
Edman\u2019s history against left-handed pitching made Espinal\u2019s role redundant.<\/p>\n
Now with both Edman and Alex Freeland active, the Dodgers have two switch-hitters \u2014 Freeland is stronger batting left-handed \u2014 with plenty of versatility. Freeland can play all over the infield, and Edman can add outfield as well to his infield duties.<\/p>\n
Espinal\u2019s second Dodgers tenure ended with a four-game hit streak, with five singles in his last eight at-bats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Tommy Edman was activated off the 60-day injured list on Tuesday after missing the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727773,"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":["post-727772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-baseball","tag-dodgers","tag-la","tag-la-dodgers","tag-ladodgers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-los-angeles-dodgers-roster","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesdodgers","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116762050769000990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727772","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=727772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}