More so than last year, the Los Angeles Dodgers figure to begin Spring Training with a surplus of starting pitchers. Brandon McCarthy and Hyun-Jin Ryu are both healthy at the outset of camp, and Brock Stewart, Ross Stripling and Julio Urias all have MLB experience.
While Los Angeles learned last season a team seemingly can never have enough pitching depth, there’s certainly a numbers crunch as it currently stands. Some of that may be alleviated by the possibility of leaving Urias in extended Spring Training.
But even removing the young left-hander, the Dodgers still have the likes of Scott Kazmir, McCarthy, Ryu, Stewart, Stripling and Alex Wood vying to fill out the rotation behind Clayton Kershaw, Rich Hill and Kenta Maeda.