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Aug. 21, 2024 3:30 AM PT
They can’t afford to keep sending Walker Buehler to the mound. They can’t afford not to either.
“Honestly,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, “we don’t have another alternative right now.”
The Dodgers are in a prison of their own making, their harebrained plan to turn their rotation into a nine-figure medical experiment backfiring to such a degree that it has forced them to depend on a pitcher attempting a comeback of historic proportions.
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Nathan Eovaldi of the Texas Rangers and Jameson Taillon of the Chicago Cubs are the only starting pitchers known to undergo second Tommy John surgeries and return to their previous performance levels.