The Los Angeles Dodgers have optioned catcher Hunter Feduccia to Triple-A, per the staff’s transaction log.
The staff is clearing a roster spot, hinting at first baseman Freddie Freeman formally being reinstated off the injured checklist for Friday’s sport towards the Chicago Cubs.
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Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts revealed this week that Freeman was anticipated to rejoin the staff on Friday, simply in time for his bobblehead evening celebrating his walk-off grand slam within the World Sequence.
“Simply taking a look at his gait operating yesterday, I might say that it’s higher than it was when he began the season,” Roberts stated Wednesday. “If nothing adjustments, he’ll be within the lineup on Friday.”
Now, it seems that transfer will formally come to fruition, because the Dodgers get set to welcome again their All-Star first baseman after a tough 2-4 street journey with out him.
Kiké Hernández has been filling in at first base for Freeman, who re-injured his surgically-repaired ankle after slipping within the bathe just below two weeks in the past.
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Whereas Hernández has 4 residence this season, these are his solely 4 hits on the 12 months, as he’s gone 4-for-39 up to now.
Freeman has appeared in simply three video games this season, going 3-for-12 with two residence runs, 4 runs batted in, and an OPS of 1.083. Along with lacking 9 video games resulting from his ankle damage, Freeman additionally missed the Dodgers’ two video games in Japan after feeling discomfort in his ribs in the identical place he handled damaged rib cartilage in the course of the postseason.
The Dodgers elected to offer Freeman practically two weeks off, which has probably given him ample time to get near one hundred pc after coming into the season removed from it.
Freeman is predicted to be again on the lineup on Friday, the place he’ll look to placed on a present for his bobblehead evening.
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