{"id":91167,"date":"2025-06-09T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/91167\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:51:09","slug":"latest-on-dodgers-rotation-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/91167\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Dodgers’ Rotation – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right-hander Tony Gonsolin<\/a> became the latest Dodgers pitcher to hit the injured list over the weekend<\/a>, but an MRI to evaluate his ailing elbow showed that his surgically repaired ulnar collateral ligament is intact, writes Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register<\/a>. Manager Dave Roberts said there\u2019s no timetable yet for Gonsolin to resume throwing. An exact diagnosis of his injury remains unclear.<\/p>\n

Even with the uncertain outlook, it\u2019s a sigh of relief for the Dodgers that Gonsolin isn\u2019t facing renewed damage in that UCL. Another tear would\u2019ve sidelined him more than a year and possibly kept him out through the end of the 2026 season. That\u2019d likely have ended Gonsolin\u2019s Dodgers tenure, as he\u2019s owed a raise on a $5.4MM salary this offseason and is only under club control through the 2026 campaign. Any injury that threatens to wipe out significant time in 2026 would result in a non-tender.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old Gonsolin\u2019s return from his 2023 Tommy John procedure has been a mixed bag. He\u2019s pitched in seven big league games this year, looking sharp out of the gate (2.81 ERA, 21-to-4 K\/BB ratio in his first 16 innings) before stumbling over his past four trips to the mound. Since May 18, Gonsolin has faced the Angels, Mets (twice) and Yankees. He\u2019s surrendered a combined 15 runs in 20 innings and served up 20 hits with an ugly 17-to-14 K\/BB ratio. A whopping seven of those hits have been home runs.<\/p>\n

Gonsolin is one of eight starting pitchers on the injured list \u2014 a number that doesn\u2019t even include Shohei Ohtani<\/a>, who\u2019s still working his way back toward a return to the mound. Front-line arms like Tyler Glasnow<\/a> and Blake Snell<\/a> have barely pitched this year and are on the 60-day IL at the moment. Touted young arms like Emmet Sheehan<\/a>, River Ryan<\/a>, Kyle Hurt<\/a> and Gavin Stone<\/a> opened the season on the injured list \u2014 the first three recovering from 2024 Tommy John procedures and the latter on the mend from a shoulder operation that\u2019s likely to cost him the entire 2025 season. Prized young right-hander Roki Sasaki<\/a> has been out for a month now due to a shoulder impingement.<\/p>\n

At the moment, the Dodgers have a healthy Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> atop the rotation. He\u2019s followed by franchise icon Clayton Kershaw<\/a>, right-hander Dustin May<\/a> and southpaw Justin Wrobleski<\/a>. Veteran Jos\u00e9 Ure\u00f1a<\/a> is working a multi-inning role in the bullpen but has extensive experience as a starting pitcher. Rotation options down in Triple-A and already on the 40-man roster include Landon Knack<\/a>, Bobby Miller<\/a>, Nick Frasso<\/a> and Matt Sauer<\/a>. Frasso and Miller have struggled in the minors this year. Knack has been hit hard in seven big league starts. Sauer has been sharp in Triple-A and looked solid in a swingman role during limited MLB time.<\/p>\n

Even with that laundry list of injuries, however, general manager Brandon Gomes downplayed his team\u2019s need to go out and acquire starting pitching ahead of next month\u2019s trade deadline. Chatting with Jon Heyman of the New York Post<\/a>, Gomes stated: \u201cWith the information we have, and where the guys are now and progressing, the expectation is we will have all we need in-house.\u201d<\/p>\n

There could be some gamesmanship at play there, of course. It\u2019s also notable that those comments came before Gonsolin\u2019s placement on the injured list. Further injury troubles or setbacks for any of their on-mend-arms in the next six weeks can always heighten the need for outside help.<\/p>\n

As things stand, the Dodgers do appear to have some near-term help on the horizon. The aforementioned Sheehan is about 13 months removed from his Tommy John surgery and is already on a minor league rehab assignment. He\u2019s made three starts \u2014 one in the Rookie-level Complex League and two in Triple-A \u2014 and tallied nine innings of one-run ball with 14 strikeouts and just one walk (plus another plunked batter).<\/p>\n

Sheehan tossed 57 pitches in his most recent outing on June 7. He\u2019ll presumably need at least one more rehab start \u2014 very likely another couple \u2014 before he\u2019s an option to rejoin the big league club, but Sheehan is a former top-100 prospect and is still just 25 years old. The right-hander\u2019s 96.3 mph average fastball is actually up a bit from his pre-surgery levels, though it\u2019s worth bearing in mind that he\u2019s still effectively throwing short stints and thus not running into any velocity decline as he turns a lineup over two or three times. Regardless, his rehab work is encouraging, and Sheehan could be an option to help the big league staff before the end of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right-hander Tony Gonsolin became the latest Dodgers pitcher to hit the injured list over the weekend, but an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,7907,4,725],"class_list":{"0":"post-91167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-emmet-sheehan","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-tony-gonsolin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114654208568829433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91167","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=91167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}