The Dodgers are planning to advertise left-handed pitcher Justin Wrobleski this weekend, in response to a report from Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. He’ll make his MLB debut in a spot begin on Sunday in opposition to the Brewers. Corresponding strikes will likely be obligatory for the Dodgers so as to add Wrobleski to the 26 and 40-man rosters.
Wrobleski, 23, has shortly risen by the Dodgers’ minor league system since making his skilled debut in 2022. He made a reputation for himself final season at Excessive-A, tossing 102 1/3 innings over 25 video games (23 begins) with a 2.90 ERA and three.22 FIP. That efficiency helped him rocket up Dodgers prospect lists forward of the 2024 season; Baseball America ranked him #6, FanGraphs ranked him #11, and Keith Legislation of The Athletic ranked him #9. All three publications agreed he was the highest left-handed pitching prospect within the group.
The southpaw obtained a promotion to Double-A firstly of the 2024 season, and he continued to pitch simply in addition to he had the yr earlier than. In 13 begins for the Tulsa Drillers, Wrobleski put up a 3.06 ERA and a couple of.98 FIP, strolling simply 4.8% of batters he confronted. After pitching what was arguably the perfect sport of his profession thus far (seven shutout innings in opposition to the Arkansas Vacationers), he earned one other promotion.
Wrobleski has since made two begins for the Triple-A Oklahoma Metropolis Baseball Membership. Though his surface-level stats go away one thing to be desired (5 earned runs in 10 1/3 innings of labor), he went a minimum of 5 innings in each video games and struck out 17 of the 43 batters he confronted.
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