By Jon Weisman
While Matt Kemp could be activated in time for the Dodgers’ home opener April 4, it’s not clear when Hyun-Jin Ryu will next pitch.
Ryu injured his right Captain of the Toes on the play pictured above, making a sudden stop at third base on Dee Gordon’s double. As Ken Gurnick of MLB.com reports, Ryu would slot in for the third game of the San Diego series April 2 (after Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke), but that start could go to Dan Haren or Paul Maholm.
Kemp, meanwhile, has had no setbacks, Gurnick reports, and is playing six innings a game now in minor-league affairs. The Dodgers just want to make sure he’s completely confident before activating him.
More from Gurnick:
The Dodgers will play a simulated game at Dodger Stadium, on Wednesday. Mattingly said it will last four or five innings, and it is mostly being held to keep the relievers sharp. He said his regulars will average three or four at-bats in the first two Freeway Series games Thursday and Friday, but they will back off in Saturday night’s game because the season resumes Sunday night in San Diego.
Elsewhere …
- A.J. Ellis is working on pitch framing, he explains in an interview with Mike Petriello for Fangraphs.
- At Blue Heaven, Ernest Reyes has this discovery about long-ago Dodger reliever Ron Perranoski:”If Ron Perranoski were not a newspaper reader, he might have taken weeks to find out that the Cubs had dealt him to the Dodgers. He was in the army then, and read about it in the sports page. Nobody had told him.”
- Reggie Smith hung a “Gone Fishin'” sign just before a 1980 MLB labor stoppage was averted — see it at the Times’ Framework blog.
- Former Dodger reliever Matt Guerrier has had an interesting transactional week, as MLB Trade Rumors notes.
- Former Dodger infielder Jamey Carroll was released by Washington.
Don Bright
On the Reggie Smith photo the article state the MLB and the Players union signed a 4 year deal avoiding a strike, yet the players went on strike in 81, how could they have if there was this agreement?
I was only 13 in 1980 and do remember a strike was avoided, but it was basically a gentlemen’s agreement that the players wouldn’t strike that year. Wonder where this 4 year agreement came up, was it never signed? Was it just fiction on the writers part?