Dodgers relief Evan Phillips Will undergo Tommy John surgery, said director Dave Roberts Fabian Ardaya athletics). The rest of this season will be missing and most of 2026 too.
It is an overwhelming blow for the enclosure of Dodger readers and for Phillips personally. Affirmed Tampa Bay’s exemptions in 2021, the right -hander of 6’2 ″ broke out as one of the best readers of the landing game in Los Angeles. He pulled 63 rounds of 1.14 era ball in his first full season as Dodger. Phillips followed with a bar of 2.05 while recording 24 stops after emerging as being closer to the team. He saved 18 other games last year before moving on to a configuration role after their acquisition Michael Kopech on the deadline.
Phillips had avoided any arm injury on this section. His only two injured stays were respectively linked to his quad and the hamstrings. It changed last fall. Phillips crossed the arm fatigue during the first stadiums of the team eliminatory race. It has become important enough for the club to have to scratch it for the World Series. Phillips revealed during the offseason that the problem was mainly with his shoulder, as he was finally diagnosed with a slightly torn top cap tendon. He avoided surgery but took things slowly when he got into power and started the season on the injured list.
The 30-year-old right-hander returned to the mound in mid-April. Phillips looks great through seven appearances, wrapping 5 2/3 goalless frames with six stick withdrawals. The return turned out to be short-lived, because the dodgers put it back on the Il three weeks later with an discomfort of the forearm. They transferred him yesterday to the list of 60 days injured while the corresponding movement in the Alexis Díaz trade. This guarantees that it would not come back for a while. The team probably knew at the time that it was intended for surgery.
Phillips is one of the 14 narcotic dodger launchers on the injured list. All except three are on the 60 -day version. Kopech, Graterole Brusdar,, Blake Treinen And Kirby Yates are all potential lever effects away. Kopech should be back soon, while Yates and Treinen are among the launch programs. Tanner Scott is the best healthy relief of the team. Alex Vesia,, Ben Casparius And Jack Dreyer Above all, have resisted average relief roles. Lou TrivinoWho signed a minor league contract earlier this month, was quickly called and immediately thrown into high-level situations.
There is a chance that this will end the mandate of Phillips in Los Angeles. He plays on a salary of $ 6.1 million. It would be eligible for arbitration one last time the next offseason. It would have come with a salary similar to this season if they are a contract. Non-expectation probably seems to be given that it will be missing all next year. Dodgers are more willing than any other team to play on talented launchers with health problems. Even if they are not phillips, they could then try to conclude a two -year -old contract in the hope of recovering it healthy throughout the season 27.
