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The Dodgers made four roster moves ahead of Saturday’s game against the Red Sox, per Dodger Blue staff. Kyle Hurt and Wyatt Mills were recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City, Will Klein was placed on the injured list with right elbow discomfort, and Cole Irvin was designated for assignment — just one day after he was added to the roster.

Irvin’s DFA is a striking turnaround. The left-hander was called up on Friday after Jake McDermott was DFA’d and Gavin Stone hit the IL with shoulder soreness. To last less than 24 hours on an active roster is rough by any standard. Irvin, 30, has bounced around in recent years after spending time with the Orioles, Athletics, and now the Dodgers organization. He’s a veteran soft-tosser who profiles as a depth arm, but clearly the front office saw something — or needed something different — almost immediately. That’s a brutal sequence for a guy just trying to stick.

Klein’s placement on the IL is the move that actually triggered all of this. The hard-throwing right-hander had been a high-leverage weapon out of the bullpen when healthy, and right elbow discomfort is never a phrase you want to hear attached to a reliever who relies on velocity. Klein has electric stuff — a fastball that sits in the upper 90s — but durability has been a recurring question mark throughout his development. We’ll need to monitor what the Dodgers say about the severity here, because losing Klein for an extended stretch would thin out an already taxed bullpen.

Hurt is the more intriguing of the two call-ups. The right-hander was a second-round pick by the Dodgers back in 2020 out of Indiana and has taken a winding road through the minors, battling injuries along the way. He’s got a live arm with swing-and-miss potential, and when he’s been healthy he’s shown flashes of being a legitimate late-inning option. His development has been slower than the organization hoped, but this is his opportunity to show that the stuff plays at the major league level. Getting the call now, with the bullpen banged up, means he could be thrust into meaningful situations quickly.

Mills is a different profile entirely — a sidearm right-hander who’s built a career on deception and getting right-handed hitters out. He spent time in the majors previously with the Mariners before landing in the Dodgers’ system. He’s not going to blow anyone away, but he’s the kind of specialist arm that can be useful in a platoon-heavy bullpen. With the Dodgers needing warm bodies they can trust in the seventh and eighth innings, Mills could carve out a role if he locates his slider consistently.

Zooming out, this is the fourth bullpen-related roster move in roughly 48 hours for the Dodgers. Klein to the IL, Irvin DFA’d after one day, Hurt and Mills up from OKC — it’s a lot of churn, and it underscores just how thin things have gotten on the pitching side. The good news is Blake Snell is nearly back from his rehab assignment, which should stabilize the rotation and allow the front office to stop raiding the Triple-A bullpen. But right now, we’re running on duct tape and depth pieces back there. I’d expect Andrew Friedman to be aggressive before the trade deadline in finding at least one more reliable arm — and honestly, the last few days have only made that more urgent.

Source(s): Staff (Dodger Blue) | First reported: August 2, 2026 12:52 AM UTC

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