Dodgers Acquire Ryan Loutos Claim J.P. Feyereise

The Dodgers have acquired right-hander from the Cardinals in exchange for cash and claimed righty off waivers from the Diamondbacks, reports . The Loutos trade was previously reported by . The Dodgers moved righties and to the 60-day injured list to open 40-man roster spots for the two pickups. Loutos, 26, has had a somewhat unusual trajectory to the big leagues, as explored in from Goold last year. Due to his computer science background, the Cards hired him to develop an app to help minor leaguers use data, and let him pitch as well. I know what I need to do to improve. I know what I could do, Loutos said. But I also know from their shoes what they see: OK, let him play for a while. See what happens. Worst-case scenario, we maybe offer him a job in the front office. Best-case scenario, maybe hes in the big leagues someday. So far, the playing part has worked out okay. He made his major league debut last year, though it was brief. He to sed 2 1/3 scorele s innings over three appearances. From the start of 2023 to the present, he has Ryan Kreidler Jersey logged 134 innings on the farm with a 5.10 earned run average, 24.2% strikeout rate and 10.7% walk rate. Feyereisen, 32, has a much longer big league track record. In 2021, he to sed 56 innings between the Brewers and Rays with a 2.73 ERA. He managed to top that performance in 2022, to sing 24 1/3 scorele s innings, with a 29.1% strikeout rate and 5.8% walk rate. However, a shoulder injury intervened and stopped him from building on those numbers. He underwent shoulder surgery and was traded to the Dodgers ahead of the 2023 season. He hasnt been able to fully re-establish himself in the majors since then. He eventually spent that entire 2023 season on the IL, not making an official appearance anywhere. The Dodgers shuttled him to Triple-A and back in 2024. He only got to pitch 11 big league innings, with an 8.18 ERA in those. His 5.48 ERA in Triple-A wasnt especially impre sive either. He was outrighted off the roster last year, allowing him to elect free agency and sign a minor league deal with the Diamondbacks coming into 2025. He got called up a couple of weeks ago after posing a 0.96 ERA in Triple-A. He then allowed two earned runs in two innings for the Snakes before getting designated for a signment and put on waivers. For the Dodgers, they are likely happy to have some fresh arms, one of which they are already familiar with. With and both on the IL due to shoulder inflammation, they are down to a four-man rotation of , , and . The club is keeping Sasaki and Yamamoto on the weekly schedule the pitchers are accustomed to from their time in Japan. That situation, plus plenty of other injuries, have led to a great deal of creativity in cobbling the staff together. Pitchers like , , and have made spot starts. , recently claimed off waivers from the Yankees, is working a long relief role. Both Loutos and Feyereisen have options, so the Dodgers are adding some arms with some roster flexibility. The team is about to start a stretch of playing ten straight games. After one off-day, they will play another nine straight. To open spots for those two, Kopech and Treinen hit the 60-day IL. Kopechs move isnt especially surprising. Hes been on the 15-day IL all year long due to a shoulder impingement and still hasnt begun a rehab a signment. Even if he were to start one now, he would need a few weeks as a sort of delayed spring training. He could be reinstated from the IL in a couple of weeks but that doesnt seem to be likely. The move for Treinen is more notable. He started the season healthy but landed on the 15-day IL April 19th due to right forearm tightne s. This transfer to the 60-day IL indicates the Dodgers dont expect him back before the middle of June. He is 36 years old, turning 37 in June, and has a recent history of arm injuries. He only to sed five innings in 2022 due to shoulder problems and then underwent surgery which wiped out his 2023 campaign. He got back on track last year with a 1.93 ERA in 46 2/3 innings, plus another 12 1/3 postseason innings with a 2.19 ERA, helping the Dodgers win the World Series. The team believed in that bounceback enough to give him a two-year, $22MM deal in free agency, the largest deal for a reliever going into his age-37 season or older since s deal with the Yankees back in 2010. Shortly after Treinen landed on the IL last month, manager Dave Roberts described the injury as a low-grade sprain of the forearm and downplayed the severity by saying were in the dodged-a-bullet category. Its unclear if Roberts was just masking the extent of the injury or if something changed, but Treinen now appears to be slated for an absence of at least a couple of months. Photo courtesy of John Geliebter, Imagn Images. Dustin Peterson Jersey