“We don’t pretend that we have the answer,” Andrew Friedman says, but the Dodgers will continue to use bullpen games and off days to keep their starters rested.
Dodgers starting pitchers Tyler Glasnow, left, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, center, and James Paxton, right, could all stand to benefit from the organization’s efforts to protect their starters by planning to get them extra rest when possible. LOS ANGELES — As a 22-year-old, second-year major-leaguer, Mark Prior pitched 234⅔ innings over 33 starts for the 2003 Chicago Cubs.
“I don’t really wrap my head around it and wish anything was different. I think that’s a slippery slope when, as a former player, you start going down that road , ‘I wish we did things this way. I wish we did things that way,’” said Prior, who threw his last pitch in the major leagues at age 25 due to shoulder injuries. “You play in the era you played. That was the era I played in. That’s what was expected. Hopefully – as it should – the game evolves and changes.
Only one Dodgers starting pitcher has thrown as many as 100 pitches in a start – Tyler Glasnow has done it twice, topping out at 101 in eight innings against the New York Mets on April 21. Only six times in the season’s first 39 games has a starter completed seven innings. Bullpen games have been a more than viable option for the Dodgers. They have gone 13-6 over the past three seasons in what could be characterized as bullpen games.
“It is a different way of doing it,” Prior said. “Now, is the bubble going to burst on that at some point too? There are questions. Either you have to go to a six-man rotation to create these rest periods and if you are going to go to a six-man type rotation or five days of full rest are you going to allow your guys to throw more? If you don’t allow them to throw more, then you’re taxing your bullpen guys more.
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