Given how strong and healthy the Dodgers starting pitching was over the final two months of the regular season and into the postseason, it’s easy to forget some of the previous contributors waiting in the wings to return. Among those is River Ryan, who impressed in his brief major league debut in 2024.

Ryan was an infielder in college who was converted to pitching, and the Dodgers traded Matt Beaty to get him in 2022. In four starts after the All-Star break in 2024, Ryan allowed only four runs in 20 1/3 innings, with 18 strikeouts. But in that fourth start he suffered an elbow injury, and had Tommy John surgery in August, which ended his 2024 season and knocked him out for all of 2025 as well.

Ryan, who spent all of the 2025 season on the 60-day injured list, posted video in August of hi

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