{"id":330179,"date":"2025-10-24T22:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330179\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T22:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:51:12","slug":"dodgers-bullpen-takes-a-hit-alex-vesia-off-world-series-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330179\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers’ bullpen takes a hit, Alex Vesia off World Series roster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TORONTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Dodgers<\/a> released their roster for the World Series on Friday, and a key piece in the bullpen was missing as expected.<\/p>\n

Left-handed reliever Alex Vesia<\/a> was not on the roster, as he and his wife handle what the club said on Thursday was \u201ca deeply personal family matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vesia was also not placed on the Family Medical Emergency List \u2014 which would have allowed him to rejoin the roster after a minimum of three days.<\/p>\n

Instead, Vesia will now only be eligible to rejoin the Dodgers roster in the event of an injury. And even then, manager Dave Roberts<\/a> said, he will \u201cmost likely\u201d not be available for the series.<\/p>\n

Andrew Friedman<\/a>, the Dodgers\u2019 president of baseball operations, said the team did not place Vesia on the Family Medical Emergency List \u2014 which would have come with a maximum stay of seven days \u2014 because they did not want him to feel pressured to return.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is so much bigger than baseball,\u201d Friedman said. \u201cAnd for us, it was doing whatever small part we could to just 100% be supportive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vesia\u2019s absence is a significant blow for a bullpen that had counted him as one of its most trusted arms (especially from the left side) this October.<\/p>\n

In the regular season, Vesia had a 3.02 ERA in 68 appearances (the second-most on the team). In the playoffs, he had a 3.86 ERA in a team-high seven outings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s certainly on our hearts and we miss him, and we\u2019ll be thinking about him,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cHe\u2019s certainly a part of this. It\u2019s just even more motivation [to win for him].\u201d<\/p>\n

Without Vesia, the Dodgers made a couple of additions to the relief corps, adding hard-throwing right-handers Edgardo Henriquez<\/a> and Will Klein back to the roster.<\/p>\n

Henriquez, who had a 2.37 ERA in 22 regular-season outings, was last active for the wild-card series at the start of the playoffs, when he failed to record an out while walking two batters and giving up a hit in his only appearance.<\/p>\n

Klein, meanwhile, is being activated for the first time this postseason, after posting a 2.35 ERA in 14 appearances this year.<\/p>\n

Both pitchers\u2019 biggest strength is their triple-digit velocity fastballs. Friedman said they were added to the roster because the club liked how their arsenals matched up against the Blue Jays\u2019 lineup.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers\u2019 only other change from the NLCS was removing another right-hander, Ben Casparius<\/a>, from the 12-man pitching staff.<\/p>\n

Left-handed reliever Tanner Scott, who was removed from the roster in the NLDS because of an abscess incision on his backside, was not added back to the roster. Roberts described that decision as more medical-related, saying Scott\u2019s stuff \u201cwasn\u2019t quite there\u201d in recent bullpen sessions as he was trying to ramp back up.<\/p>\n

The team also kept the same 14-player position group it used last round, again going with defensive and speed specialists Justin Dean and Hyeseong Kim over veteran outfielder Michael Conforto and third catcher Dalton Rushing for its final roster spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Dodgers released their roster for the World Series on Friday, and a key piece in the bullpen…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":330180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28598,52640,19497,2442,20645,19498,34962,163969,163970,163972,1242,62,6831,67,132,68,163971,163968,1628],"class_list":{"0":"post-330179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-addition","9":"tag-alex-vesia","10":"tag-bullpen","11":"tag-dodgers","12":"tag-era","13":"tag-hit","14":"tag-klein","15":"tag-only-appearance","16":"tag-only-change","17":"tag-relief-corps","18":"tag-roster","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-staff","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-veteran-outfielder-michael-conforto","25":"tag-world-series-roster","26":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115431596660285750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}