Since signing an extremely team friendly deal with the Dodgers at the beginning of 2016, Kenta Maeda has been an underrated part of the Dodger rotation. In 2018, the rotation was hit with an array of injuries but Maeda was one of the anchors of the rotation as he made sixteen starts in the first half of the rotation, which was when the Dodger rotation was injury bitten.
Maeda had a rough April with an ERA of 4.64 but then he settled in and finished the first half of the season with a 3.12 ERA. In the second half of the season, Kenta was removed from the rotation and as he has done unselfishly since joining the Dodgers, he has pitched in whatever role the club has needed him to.