Full List of Dodgers Pitchers Currently on the Injured List

For all their star power and $330 million payroll swagger, the Los Angeles Dodgers are currently hobbling through the season with what amounts to an entire pitching staff sitting on the shelf. They might be 25-12 and owning the best record in baseball, but the injury list is a graveyard of elite arms – a reminder that not even this superteam is immune to baseball’s most relentless opponent: the injured list.

Let’s be blunt. If the Dodgers were fielding only pitchers from their IL, they’d still have enough to piece together a halfway-decent rotation. That’s how absurdly deep, and injured, this roster is.

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Here’s the growing casualty list:

• Shohei Ohtani – Not technically on the IL, but you won’t be seeing him on the mound anytime soon.
• Blake Snell
• Tyler Glasnow
• Clayton Kershaw
• Gavin Stone
• Emmet Sheehan
• River Ryan
• Blake Treinen
• Michael Kopech
• Evan Phillips
• Brusdar Graterol
• Kyle Hurt
• Michael Grove
• Edgardo Henriquez

You could mix and match those names into multiple rotations, and we haven’t even hit the All-Star break.

Dodgers Latest Injuries

Evan Phillips (RHP)

• Injury: Right forearm discomfort
• IL Date: May 7 (15-day IL)
• Update: Didn’t feel pain while pitching, but couldn’t recover well in between appearances. The Dodgers expect him back when eligible, but with forearms, expectations and reality rarely meet.

Teoscar Hernández (OF)

• Injury: Left groin strain
• IL Date: May 6 (10-day IL)
• Update: Grade 1 strain revealed on MRI. Dave Roberts is cautiously optimistic about a late-May return if progress continues.

Evan Phillips’ absence is especially brutal. He’s the bullpen’s stabilizer, and his IL stint is just the latest in a wave of chaos for a staff that’s been in patchwork mode since the first pitch of the season. With Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow both on ice, the Dodgers have been leaning on bullpen games and minor-league call-ups just to survive this 10-games-in-10-days stretch. That’s part of why they lead all of baseball in relief innings, 161 of them and counting.

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Four relievers, Kirby Yates, Alex Vesia, Tanner Scott, and Luis Garcia, have already appeared in more than half of L.A.’s first 36 games. Still, in a small win for the walking wounded, the Dodgers managed to reset their ‘pen on the final stop of this brutal road trip. Rookie Landon Knack started the finale in Miami, while Matt Sauer, just called up from Triple-A to replace Phillips, pitched in relief and helped stop the bleeding.

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The Dodgers can ride their star-studded offense only so far if the arms keep dropping like flies. If they want to survive the marathon that is a 162-game season, let alone October, something’s got to give.