Dodgers Don’t Expect Snell to Be Ready on Opening Day, Yamamoto Tunes up for World Baseball Classic

Yoshinobu Yamamoto balances workload for WBC repeat, Dodgers three-peat

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is heading to the World Baseball Classic to pitch for Japan. Dodgers fans will be hoping he comes home healthy.

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…

Dodgers don’t expect Snell to be ready on opening day, Yamamoto tunes up for World Baseball Classic

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers do not expect two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell to be ready for opening day as he works on coming back from a shoulder injury that has lingered since last season.

Dodgers Not Expecting Blake Snell to Be Ready for Opening Day

The Los Angeles Dodgers do not expect two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell to be available for Opening Day as he continues his recovery from a shoulder injury that has lingered since last season. Snell, one of the most accomplished left-handed starters in the majors, has been working his way back after the shoulder […] The post Dodgers Not Expecting Blake Snell to Be Ready for Opening Day appeared first on Get More Sports.