Dodgers’ River Ryan Out For Remainder of Season Following Elbow Injury
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher River Ryan’s season is now over. Ryan left the game early on Saturday with forearm tightness and will now be out for the remainder of the year.
Juan Toribio of MLB.com broke the news of Ryan’s injury.
Before coming out of the game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Ryan begged manager Dave Roberts to stay in. He clearly didn’t believe the issue was serious at the time.
“Last two pitches, it really started to tighten up on me a little bit. I begged Doc to let me keep going, but he pulled the plug,” Ryan said, via Spectrum SportsNet.
Ryan was coming along nicely for the Dodgers prior to the injury. He looked like one of the better young pitchers on the staff and gave the starting rotation a spark amid all the other injuries.
This is a big blow to the Dodgers’ rotation moving forward. This is just another in a long line of injuries to starting pitchers for Los Angeles this season.
The team has seen 17 different pitchers start games for them this season, the most in the big leagues.
The rookie right-hander posted an ERA of 1.33 over four starts. He was 1-0, with 18 strikeouts, and had a WHIP of 1.18.
Los Angeles won each game that Ryan started, making this injury even more detrimental to the team. The Dodgers called up Landon Knack to replace Ryan but he will work mainly out of the bullpen.
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Something is wrong with how the team handles the health of its pitchers. 17 starters this year, probably as many last year. Too many injuries. They need to replace anyone who has anything to do with the pitchers, from Mark Prior on down. They should not have more pitcher injuries than any other team – they can afford to hire the best coaches and staff to focus on pitcher injury prevention. Too many years in a row they lead MLB in pitchers’ injuries. This is just not right. Stop having the pitchers throw weighted baseballs in practice.
It’s the pitching clock. Not enough time to rest between pitches. It’s a sport-wide problem.
Look how it took a chiropractor to fix Muncy after 21/2 months!!
I see it differently. The pitching coaches know how to teach guys to throw hard if they’ve got arm strength, that’s their job, but they haven’t learned how to teach them how to not destroy their arm throwing at 100MPH. Pitchers arms have always been a little on the fragile side, but it’s gotten crazy now. Think about it, according to my understanding of Tommy John surgery, you need it after you’ve ripped the tendon off the bone. That’s freaky, but now it’s routine.
I think that’s the why. How to change or prevent it, that I don’t know.
Yet another pitcher out for the year. This is insanity. Quit having pitchers try to throw so many 95-100mph fast balls. “Junk” pitchers in the old days like Niekro, Wilhelm, Hough, Brewer, Marichal, etc all had long careers and a testament to not throwing fastballs most of the time.
Could the problem be excessive grip strength applied by pitchers now in an effort to increase the spin rate that everyone is so focused on now with the adhesives issue?