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The Dodgers placed Justin Wrobleski on the 15-day injured list with left forearm inflammation and recalled Kyle Hurt from Triple-A Oklahoma City, per Dodger Blue. The move comes just days after the team announced plans to shift Wrobleski to a bullpen role — plans that are now on hold entirely as he deals with this new injury.

Wrobleski’s 2026 has been a winding road. The left-hander carved out a rotation spot earlier this season and showed flashes of the arm that made him an intriguing prospect, but consistency has been the issue. His stuff plays — the fastball-slider combination can miss bats — but command lapses have plagued him. The move to the bullpen was supposed to simplify things: come in, throw hard for an inning or two, sit down. Instead, left forearm inflammation puts everything on pause. Forearm issues in pitchers always warrant extra attention because of the proximity to the elbow and the ligaments that live in that neighborhood. We don’t know the severity yet, but a 15-day IL stint is the minimum, and these things can linger. I’ll be watching the next update on this one closely.

Hurt, meanwhile, gets another crack at the big league roster after a brief stint that ended when he was optioned on August 10 to make room for Charlie Barnes. The right-hander has been pitching at Triple-A and was only just eligible to return under the 10-day option rules. Hurt has shown a power arm with swing-and-miss stuff at the upper levels, and the Dodgers clearly view him as someone who can soak up innings in a variety of roles. Whether he slots into long relief, piggybacks off a starter, or fills in as a spot starter himself, the flexibility matters for a pitching staff that keeps taking hits.

And that’s really the bigger picture here. This rotation has been a revolving door of health problems all season. Shohei Ohtani is still working his way back to the mound. Tyler Glasnow is rehabbing at Triple-A. Blake Treinen is on a rehab assignment in the low minors. Now Wrobleski — who was already being moved out of the rotation — lands on the IL before the bullpen transition even begins. Tarik Skubal just arrived via trade, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto has been excellent, but the depth behind them keeps getting thinner.

The Dodgers still have arms to call on. Hurt is back, Ben Casparius and Gavin Stone are options at Triple-A, and Emmet Sheehan continues to build back up in Oklahoma City. But the margin for error shrinks every time someone goes down. We’re in mid-August, the stretch run is here, and the front office is going to need every one of those depth pieces before October. Wrobleski’s forearm issue is one more thing to manage for a team that’s already managing a lot.

Source(s): Staff (Dodger Blue) | First reported: August 16, 2026 7:29 PM UTC

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