{"id":102407,"date":"2025-06-18T18:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=102407"},"modified":"2025-06-18T18:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:05:03","slug":"dodgers-emmet-sheehan-activated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/18\/dodgers-emmet-sheehan-activated\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Emmet Sheehan Activated For Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers have activated right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sheehem01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emmet Sheehan<\/a> according to Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. In a corresponding move, they have optioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sauerma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Sauer<\/a> to Triple A Oklahoma City. Sheehan will make his first Major League start in thirteen months after recovering from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnto01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tommy John<\/a> surgery. This comes on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/ohtansh01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/23\/dodgers-shohei-ohtani-timeline-return-to-mound\/\" target=\"_self\">long-awaited return to the mound.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Dodgers officially activated Emmet Sheehan for his start tonight. Matt Sauer was optioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabian Ardaya (@FabianArdaya) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabianArdaya\/status\/1935421151972667527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Necessary Coverage<\/h3>\n<p>Matt Sauer was the logical casualty of the Sheehan activation, however he pitched \u00a0necessary innings against the division rival San Diego Padres. To a staff with an arm shortage, he was an essential piece. He has been optioned five times this season, which is the limit per MLB rules. The right-hander has a 6.18 Earned Run Average in 27 and 2\/3 innings with 22 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<h3>The Conversation<\/h3>\n<p>Sheehan has made four rehab starts on<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/14\/dodgers-emmet-sheehan-joins-starting-rotation-next-week\/\" target=\"_self\"> his way back to the majors.<\/a> The latest was three and a third innings which was short of the projected four innings that Los Angeles wished, but apparently in &#8220;the conversation&#8221; Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=roberda07,roberda05,roberda06,roberda03&amp;search=Dave+Roberts&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Roberts<\/a> had with the Dodger top brass, they had seen enough. Even though he has only thrown a maximum of 63 pitches in an outing. However, he has struck out nearly 45% of the batters he faced, while only allowing one walk. That seems to be enough to catch anyone&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n<h3>Down on the Farm<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/diazal03.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexis Diaz<\/a>, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/29\/reliever-alexis-diaz-traded-dodgers\/\" target=\"_self\">recently acquired<\/a> from the Cincinnati Reds made his minor-league debut last night for Oklahoma City. The former closer had been down in Arizona reworking his delivery before joining the club. He retired three of the four batters he faced. Diaz may be an interesting addition to the big leagues later in season, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/30\/dodgers-evan-phillips-tommy-john-surgery\/\" target=\"_self\">especially with the loss<\/a> of Evan Philips for the year.<\/p>\n<p>It might be too much to say that the Dodgers are finally starting to get healthy. After all, they still have dozen arms on the I.L. However, it is a start.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: \u00a0Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers have activated right-hander Emmet Sheehan according to Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. In a corresponding move, they have optioned Matt Sauer to Triple A Oklahoma City. Sheehan will make his first Major League start in thirteen months after recovering from Tommy John surgery. This comes on the heels of Shohei Ohtani&#8216;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":102438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1071,35],"tags":[5676,6437,2154,1299,2178],"class_list":["post-102407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodgers","category-mlb","category-news","tag-alexis-diaz","tag-emmet-sheehan","tag-evan-phillips","tag-matt-sauer","tag-shohei-ohtani"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102407"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102440,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102407\/revisions\/102440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}