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Baseball: Yamamoto Primed for WBC After Last Cactus League Start for L.A.
Blake Snell recovers from shoulder fatigue and will likely start season on injured list while Yoshinobu Yamamoto prepares for World Baseball Classic with pitch limits.
- Feb. 27, 2026 — The Los Angeles Dodgers said two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell will not be ready for Opening Day as he recovers from a lingering shoulder injury and has been throwing on flat ground, manager Dave Roberts told reporters Friday.
- With long toss topping 86-87 mph, Snell has been limited to playing catch at 90 feet and has not yet thrown off a mound, Roberts said Friday.
- Yoshinobu Yamamoto tuned up by striking out five over three innings with 52 pitches and is tentatively scheduled to face Chinese Taipei on March 6 with a 65-pitch limit.
- With Yamamoto headed to the WBC, the club will miss him while he’s away, and Brock Stewart is progressing but set to open the year on the injured list, while Brusdar Graterol remains in a holding pattern.
- Having pitched 211 innings last season, the player said the mental toll of 37.1 postseason innings affected him, but dismissed concerns about the 2026 season.
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Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto finishes Cactus League work, heads to Japan
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Yoshinobu Yamamoto has been a busy man. The Japanese right-hander led the Dodgers with 173⅔ innings during the regular season last year then led the pitching staff through the postseason, including a World Series MVP performance. One hundred and eleven days later, he was on the mound again, pitching in the Cactus League. Now he is on his way to Japan to lead Team Samurai into the World Baseball Classic. But Yamamoto dismissed…
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