NL West Notes: Ohtani, Gomber, Bird Song

THE Riders have taken things slowly with the superstar Shohei Ohtani While he prepares for his return to pitch. After a little more than a month of leave from the regular sessions of the LEVER ENCLOS, Ohtani started to launch last weekend again and launched another session of enclosure of the lifts earlier during the day. As Bill Plunkett from The Orange County Register noted, Ohtani launched 26 throws and, for the first time this year, he included his separator in the session of the Lights. It came after what Plunkett described as a “light” Session of the Lights Enclosure Thursday. Although this is a notable increase in activity, this should not be an error for the accelerated Ohtani calendar at the mound of the big league.

According to Plunkett, manager Dave Roberts said that the club hoped to reproduce something like the calendar that Ohtani will have when he returns to the big league mound as a starter by making him reject the mound twice a week: once with a lighter session of the enclosure of the surveys on Thursday, followed by a complete session on Saturday. Although the superstar recovers a little regularly on the mound, Plunkett notes that there is still a long way to go before it is ready to launch in a big league match for the Dodgers. He relates that, according to Roberts, the next step for Ohtani would be to incorporate all of his arsenal into his enclosure sessions of the lifts rather than fast balls exclusively and an occasional separator.

It will not be before Ohtani uses its complete arsenal which would face the direct strikers in simulated games, which the dodgers plan to use instead of an assignment of rehabilitation to obtain Ohtani at the speed of the game while allowing it to continue to serve as a daily DH in the alignment, is on the table. He will surely need several of these outings before he is ready to enter the matches, and Plunkett suggests that at this stage, a realistic chronology for the beginnings of launcher of Ohtani with the dodgers would be in June in June “As soon as possible.” In the meantime, dodgers use a rotation of Yoshinobu yamamoto,, Blake Snell,, Tyler Glasnow,, Sasaki RokiAnd Dustin can. Both Clayton Kershaw And Tony Gonsolin Could also come back from the injured list before Ohtani is ready to pitch, giving Dodgers a multitude of potential options for rotation.

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• Rocky south Austin Gomber started the season on the injured list due to pain in his left shoulder, and although he was sent for a rehabilitation assignment just after the opening day with an eye towards the return after the first two weeks of the season, he was scratched from his next start of rehabilitation due to the inflammation of the shoulder. Who paved the way in Colorado to promote Chase Dollander To the big leagues, and Thomas Harding of MLB.com spoke in more detail to Gomber the situation today. According to Harding, Gomber was unable to present maximum efficiency at the start of rehabilitation even after receiving an anti-inflammatory injection on the shoulder. Consequently, Gomber noted that the plan is now for him to have a slower and “More traditional” rehabilitation process. He will not launch another week while inflammation calms down and will probably not return to the mound for two or three additional weeks after that.
• While the Giant Initially planned to use the young right -hander Song of Hayden birds As a long starter Landen RouppIt seems that it may no longer be in the cards. As judge Delos Santos de Mercury News noted, manager Bob Melvin told journalists today that the club was now dealing “True lifter” After its limited use to start the season. Birdsong appeared once in the first week of giants of the giants, making an appearance of two heats which saw him launching only 27 throws. With a song of birds that has no longer stretched as a starter, Melvin suggested that an appearance of a round for the right -hander could be on the table. Birdsong launched exclusively as a starter in the Majors last year, with an MPM of 4.75 in 16 departures, and had not appeared in major or minor leagues at the double level A or more at any time in his career before his beginnings in 2025.