Dodgers News: Freddie Freeman injury, Brusdar Graterol, Max Muncy, Tommy Edman

If it seems like the Dodgers are always getting bad news, it's kind of because they are. Good news has hardly ever come alone for this team; it can seemingly only be accompanied by something that immediately ruins the vibe. Either that, or it's just bad all around.

That was the was case this weekend, when Tyler Glasnow went onto the 15-day IL with elbow tendinitis. The Dodgers only expect him to stay the minimum amount of time, but that's still two starts when LA won't have their ace, and with the way these injuries have seemed to be going this year, there's no telling that the problem won't get worse before it gets better.

Freddie Freeman is also in murky territory. He hurt his middle finger while fielding a ball on Saturday and was taken out of the game. It was swollen afterward, but x-rays came back negative for anything serious, and Freeman said he'd be day-to-day.

He was absent from the Dodgers lineup on Sunday, as the finger looked and felt worse, but Dave Roberts said the concern was still low and Freeman would receive CT scans upon the team's return to LA. Good, we guess...?

UPDATE: The latest on Freeman, as of Monday night, is that he'll play through a hairline fracture in his finger, revealed by his CT scan. He's playing Monday, and will grit his teeth until it heals, it appears.

Dodgers News: Injury Updates on Freddie Freeman, Brusdar Graterol, Max Muncy, and Tommy Edman

Okay, so the bad news is out of the way. In better news, Brusdar Graterol's recovery is going much faster than the Dodgers could've hoped. He's recovering from a Grade 1 hamstring strain (not Grade 3, as the Dodgers originally had us believing), and has shared a couple of optimistic updates on Twitter since then. He's already expected to throw a bullpen session this week with the Dodgers home in LA. It's unclear if he'll need another rehab assignment yet, although a short one is likely necessary to assess his actual game readiness.

Max Muncy and Tommy Edman are also on their way to LA. Original reports expected Edman to come back first on Monday, and then for Muncy to follow a day later, but with Freeman's next few games up in the air, they may need to do some defensive shuffling to put Kiké Hernández at first in the interim. We can expect a couple of interesting roster moves when Muncy and Edman are officially reinstated. The most obvious one will be moving River Ryan to the 60-day IL in light of his Tommy John to gift Edman a 40-man spot, but that still leaves one more space the Dodgers need to open up, and two roles on the active roster. We could be saying goodbye to Nick Ahmed and Andy Pages for the rest of the season very soon.