With a surplus of starting pitchers, the Los Angeles Dodgers have been afforded with the luxury of providing extra rest when possible or necessary, and juggling pitchers in and out of the rotation as results dictated.
Thus far, Alex Wood has moved out of the bullpen and into the rotation, whereas Kenta Maeda and Hyun-Jin Ryu have been removed from the rotation and utilized as relievers. Ryu made his first career relief appearance — a four-inning save — on May 25, and returned to the rotation six days later.
Now Maeda is poised to follow in those same footsteps.