As the Los Angeles Dodgers are getting ready to host the New York Mets or San Diego Padres within the National League Division Series, they nonetheless have a couple of questions left to respond to on their postseason roster.
For the location gamers, Hanser Alberto and Miguel Vargas are most probably competing for the overall bench spot, whilst the pitching aspect is also depending on well being.
Blake Treinen and Dustin May are nonetheless attempting to go back from their respective accidents, and general, the Dodgers have 16 pitchers for 13 spots. Regardless of which 13 pitchers the Dodgers finally end up hanging on their roster, president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman is assured within the workforce.
“I think this arguably will be our deepest 13-man pitching staff, and that’s with missing a few guys,” Friedman mentioned.
“Daniel Hudson obviously would be incredibly helpful. We’ll see where Blake Treinen is, we’ll see where Dustin is, but I think we’re going to have a really deep 13-man pitching staff that can match up in different ways and we’ll be really good at preventing runs.”
Of their beginning pitchers, Clayton Kershaw, Julio Urías, Tyler Anderson, Tony Gonsolin and Andrew Heaney are locks to make the workforce, even if Heaney is more likely to finally end up within the bullpen for a minimum of the hole collection when most effective 4 starters are wanted.
In the bullpen, Evan Phillips, Tommy Kahnle, Chris Martin, Yency Almonte and Alex Vesia are the locks, which leaves 3 spots for Treinen, May, Brusdar Graterol, Caleb Ferguson, Craig Kimbrel and David Price.
Whether or no longer Kimbrel shall be at the Dodgers’ postseason roster will most probably rely at the well being of the opposite pitchers and the whole bullpen composition.
“I don’t know,” Friedman mentioned when requested if Kimbrel shall be at the Dodgers postseason roster for the NLDS.
“We’re still meeting and talking through the composition of our position-player group, of our pitching staff. I think as we learn more from some of our players in terms of health and where they’re at, I think we’ll have a lot more information to be able to figure out exactly what we’re going to do.”
Andrew Friedman believes postseason agenda will receive advantages Dodgers
The NLDS agenda doesn’t have an off day between Games 4 and 5 and the NL Championship Series has 5 consecutive video games.
That could be a problem for lots of groups to control, however Friedman believes it is going to be a receive advantages to the Dodgers. “I think that’s where our depth will serve us,” he mentioned.
“I think having a really deep 13-man pitching staff is going to help. Have different looks and able to kind of mix will help keep guys fresh and keep us in good position to prevent runs.”
Have you subscribed to the Dodger Blue YouTube channel? Be positive to ring the notification bell to observe participant interviews, take part in displays and giveaways, and keep up-to-the-minute on all Dodgers information and rumors!