If you compartmentalize the roster, the areas of need are and have been, thin. The pitching staff as a whole rank in the top five in almost every stat that matters: ERA, WHIP, strikeouts, batting average against and, hell, even wins. Now, is the bullpen impeccable? No, not even close. Do they rank highly in a lot of big-time categories? Yes, quietly they do.
The Dodgers pitching staff does, however, have an incredible starting rotation. One that leads baseball by a nautical mile in ERA and they, truth be told, needed no help at all. The rotations overwhelming amount of strengths made every small weakness that much more obvious and one of them, although not one they Dodgers could have prevented, was an injury to Rich Hill.