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Dodgers News: Despite Not Playing, Walker Buehler Will Make An NLDS Appearance

Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler still makes an NLDS appearance despite being out for the season

Ryan Menzie

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Like many athletes who go through gruesome injuries, they look to eye a comeback as soon as possible. For Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler, who hasn't ruled out coming back in 2023, will make an appearance in the NLDS as a guest analyst. 

Buehler injured his elbow in August and it was later ruled that he would require Tommy John surgery. A surprise as the Dodgers expected to have him back but instead got his season shut down and even possibly losing him for the 2023 season.

Although Buehler won't be able to help out the Dodgers on the field, he will get to enlighten all Dodgers fans at home with his keen insight as a perennial pitcher. A sight many Dodgers fans will welcome seeing.

The two-time All-Star and 2020 World Series champion has spent all six seasons with the Dodgers and appeared in 115 games during that span. His best season of his career came in 2021 as he achieved a career best in games started (33), games won (16), and ERA (2.47). 

The numbers were promising for a revamped Dodgers team looking to come back from a disappointing postseason exit to the eventual World Series champion Braves in the NLCS. Buehler could have been heavily utilized as the Dodgers still determine their pitching rotation moving forward. 

With the Dodgers poised to make a deep postseason run regardless, Buehler may be seen more often than not analyzing the Dodgers if the team makes it into November with their eye on the title. 

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RYAN MENZIE

Ryan Menzie | Lead Contributor Ryan is an LA Native who has grown up praising the greatest athletes LA has had to offer. A love for sports ranging between basketball, football, volleyball and golf, a future Sports Management Masters graduate, and being engulfed into organized sports since seven years old, the passion and love for sports never ends for Ryan. If the words he writes don't paint the full picture of his true fandom, he will find more ways than one to tell the story and be more than willing to open up a nice LA sports debate with you. Favorite Player: Mookie Betts Favorite Moment: 2020 World Series. The Lakers won the NBA title and the Dodgers secured the World Series only a couple of months later. During such a rough time with COVID-19 and such a bleak look at how sports has tried to overcome the circumstances, it was a relief to see the night sky lit up for many nights and a makeshift parade in LA when it seemed like we needed it the most.

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