Los Angeles Dodgers common supervisor Andrew Friedman mentioned Julio Urías‘ arrest on criminal home violence fees was once “extremely disappointing” and famous that the group is thinking about a couple of choices for its pitching team of workers in brightness of the left-hander’s unsure while.
Friedman and supervisor Dave Roberts each addressed journalists Tuesday within the Dodgers’ maximum intensive statement since Urías was once arrested late Sunday in Los Angeles. It marked the second one home violence arrest within the day 4 years for Urías, who isn’t with the Dodgers on their six-game highway commute.
“Obviously, extremely disappointing development,” Friedman mentioned. “For us right now, it’s having him and his representatives resolve this while we’re focused on both the near and long term.”
Roberts mentioned he was once “shocked” when he was once knowledgeable of Urías’ arrest.
“I was shocked — everyone was,” Roberts mentioned sooner than the Dodgers’ loss Tuesday to the Miami Marlins. “It is just an extremely unfortunate circumstance for everyone.”
Primary League Baseball has opened an investigation into Urías’ arrest, and the eight-year veteran is predicted to be put on administrative loose sooner than his nearest scheduled get started on Thursday.
Urías, 27, additionally was once arrested on doubt of home battery in Might 2019 and was once suspended 20 video games by means of MLB, however he wasn’t prosecuted by means of the Los Angeles town lawyer at the situation he entire a 52-week home violence counseling program. Incorrect participant has been suspended two times underneath MLB’s joint home violence coverage because it was once established in 2015.
Neither Friedman nor Roberts would remark Tuesday when requested whether or not they expected Urías going back on the Dodgers this season. Urías, who posted $50,000 bail and was once exempted early Monday morning, is due in court docket Sept. 27.
“We don’t know anything more today than we knew yesterday,” Friedman mentioned, in keeping with The Athletic. “Our guys are pros. Obviously, they’re concerned about the situation. … But they’re also pros and they’re focused on going out tonight and winning a baseball game. That doesn’t mean they’re not concerned but they’re able to shift their focus and lock in on the task at hand.”
“For us, now it’s day to day,” Roberts mentioned. “I don’t want to get too far ahead of things. As time’s gone on with certain things, you learn that simplifying, day to day, is the best way to handle it.”
The Dodgers (84-53) input Wednesday with a 14-game govern atop the Nationwide League West and are similar to clinching their eleventh consecutive postseason look. The lack of Urías, who has a three.68 ERA in 23 occupation postseason appearances, would loose the Dodgers with a slightly slim rotation next veterans Clayton Kershaw and Lance Lynn.
“There are still so many unknowns that we haven’t wrapped our arms around that yet,” Friedman mentioned. “We feel like we’re going to have a lot of talent on our pitching staff in October. We might not know exactly who the 13 are going to be right now, but we feel very confident that we will be bringing some big-boy stuff to the table.”
Injured starters Tony Gonsolin and Dustin May are out for the left-overs of the season for the Dodgers, who hope to have Walker Buehler again on their pitching team of workers sooner than the top of the season.
The 2-time All-Big name right-hander is predicted to assemble a minor league rehab get started Friday as he continues his go back from Tommy John surgical procedure, however Roberts mentioned that Urias’ status would have “no bearing on [Buehler’s] progression.”
Dodgers newbies Bobby Miller, Emmet Sheehan and Ryan Pepiot all have flashed doable as launch pitchers this season and may finally end up as a part of their postseason rotation. Sheehan, who continues to be on Los Angeles’ roster, and Pepiot, who was once optioned to the minors utmost day, are applicants to fill Urías’ rotation spot for Thursday’s layout finale in Miami.
“We’ll address it, if it gets to that point,” Roberts mentioned. “But we do have a lot of viable options in-house, guys that have experience and have performed. I don’t want to go too far down that road, but we’ve still got a lot of good players if it gets to that point.”
A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Branch spokesperson mentioned Tuesday that Urías was once arrested on a criminal rate of corporal trauma on a partner or cohabitant. The arrest took playground in Exposition Ground, south of downtown Los Angeles. The soil is house to BMO Stadium, the place Lionel Messi and Inter Miami had been enjoying in an MLS competition with various celebrities in attendance.
Corporal trauma on a partner calls for a physically trauma being willfully led to by means of bodily power.
Urías is 11-8 with a 4.60 ERA in 21 begins this season and is ready to transform a distant agent next the International Layout. He’s pitching on a $14.25 million, one-year commitment in his ultimate season of wage arbitration eligibility.
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