{"id":86416,"date":"2024-09-24T22:04:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T02:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=86416"},"modified":"2024-09-24T22:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T02:07:04","slug":"dodgers-call-up-young-hurler-edgardo-henriquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/24\/dodgers-call-up-young-hurler-edgardo-henriquez\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Call Up Young Fireballer for Last Week of Regular Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers are calling up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=henriq000edg&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edgardo Henriquez<\/a> for the penultimate regular-season series against the San Diego Padres, Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic reports. This is a much-needed boost to a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/06\/dodgers-getting-internal-pitching-reinforcements\/\" target=\"_self\">Dodgers&#8217; pitching staff<\/a> that has been <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/13\/dodgers-tyler-glasnow-setback-simulated-game\/\" target=\"_self\">injury-plagued<\/a> all year. In corresponding moves, Los Angeles optioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/caspabe01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Casparius<\/a> and transferred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=stonega01,stone-001gav&amp;search=Gavin+Stone&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gavin Stone<\/a> to the 60-day injured list, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/06\/dodgers-gavin-stone-injured-list-shoulder\/\" target=\"_self\">ending Stone&#8217;s season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Edgardo Henriquez is here at Dodger Stadium. Per sources, the Dodgers are calling him up.<\/p>\n<p>Wrote earlier this month he was on the Dodgers\u2019 radar despite starting the season in A-ball. His fastball has been clocked as hard as 104 mph this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabian Ardaya (@FabianArdaya) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabianArdaya\/status\/1838696976378139114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Dodgers Calling Up Edgardo Henriquez<\/h2>\n<h3>Rapid Rise<\/h3>\n<p>The 22-year-old began this year at Single-A Rancho Cucamonga and rose through four levels of minor-league ball before joining the Dodgers. Originally from Venezuela, Henriquez was an international signing by Los Angeles in 2019. The right-hander made his first professional appearance the same year in Rookie ball. Since the 2020 minor league season was wiped out by the pandemic, the right-hander resumed his career in 2021 in the Arizona Complex League. The youngster&#8217;s ERA was almost 5.00, but Henriquez&#8217;s strikeout rate was over 33%. The next year, the phenom&#8217;s ERA was half a run lower and his walk rate was down, implying that he has the stuff but control is a work in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Henriquez missed all of the 2023 season due to Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<h3>Back With a Vengeance<\/h3>\n<p>In 2024, the right-hander features a 2.72 ERA with a 12.8 walk rate while striking out nearly 40% of batters with a nasty slider and a fastball that has hit 104 mph.<\/p>\n<h3>The Postseason Push<\/h3>\n<p>The Dodgers host the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium tonight for a pivotal three-game series. If Los Angeles wins the series, they will clinch the National League West Division and a first-round bye in the postseason. Whatever happens, it seems clear that Henriquez&#8217;s presence in the Dodger clubhouse means he is auditioning for a spot on the October roster.<\/p>\n<p>One can&#8217;t help but remember when the Los Angeles Angels brought up a young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=rodrifr03,rodrifr04&amp;search=Francisco+Rodr\u00edguez&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Francisco Rodriguez<\/a> in the last week of the regular season in 2002. The Angels rode his right arm to a World Series win against the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers wouldn&#8217;t mind a similar outcome. We will wait and see.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers are calling up Edgardo Henriquez for the penultimate regular-season series against the San Diego Padres, Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic reports. This is a much-needed boost to a Dodgers&#8217; pitching staff that has been injury-plagued all year. In corresponding moves, Los Angeles optioned Ben Casparius and transferred Gavin Stone to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":86437,"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":[28756,28755,560,28620],"class_list":["post-86416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodgers","category-mlb","category-news","tag-ben-casparius","tag-edgardo-henriquez","tag-francisco-rodriguez","tag-gavin-stone"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86416","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=86416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}