Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Blake Snell has been placed on the 15-day injured list with shoulder inflammation, the team announced on Sunday. The move is retroactive to April 3.
In his two starts this season, the left-hander has compiled a 2.00 ERA, allowing two runs and seven hits in nine innings. However, Snell has also walked eight batters, indicating that something may not have been right at this early stage of the season.
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Snell, 32, threw his regularly scheduled bullpen session between starts. But something appeared to be wrong, as he talked to trainer Thomas Albert and general manager Brandon Gomes afterward, according to the Los Angeles Times’ Jack Harris.
To take Snell’s place on the roster, the Dodgers recalled right-hander Matt Sauer from Triple-A Oklahoma City. Sauer, 26, registered a 7.71 ERA in 14 appearances with the Kansas City Royals last season with nine strikeouts, 11 walks and 23 hits allowed in 16 1/3 innings. In his one start for Oklahoma City, he allowed one run and two hits with two strikeouts in three innings.
Snell signed a five-year, $182 million contract with the Dodgers in the offseason, opting out of his contract with the San Francisco Giants that he agreed to after a disappointing first foray into free agency. He finished with a 3.12 ERA in 20 starts with 145 strikeouts in 104 innings. The rate of 12.5 Ks per nine innings was the best of his career.
A two-time Cy Young Award winner (one with the Tampa Bay Rays, the other with the San Diego Padres), Snell has a career 3.18 ERA, 77-58 record and strikeout rate of 11.2 per nine innings.
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