Michael Grove’s seven and a half years in the Dodgers organization was very much a portrait of a modern major league pitcher. But after shoulder surgery kept him out of action for all of 2025, his time with Los Angeles has ended.

Grove had Tommy John surgery in 2017 while at West Virginia, but that didn’t stop the Dodgers from drafting him in the second round in 2018.

“We feel very comfortable and confident in our player development and medical staff’s ability to get these pitchers back to where they were,” Dodgers director of amateur scouting Billy Gasparino said at the time. “The Walker Buehler example is a good one, and we hope to repeat it with Grove.”

A starter in the minors, Grove started with the Dodgers intermittently after getting added to the 40-man roster in November 2021, an

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