The new year is rapidly approaching, and do you know where your 2016 Dodgers rotation is?
As it stands in the twilight of 2015, it has two gaping holes. Potential answers have been falling off the free-agent board like needles on a drying Christmas tree, including the biggest -- their own Zack Greinke.
The half-full types plead patience and argue the off-season is hardly over; half-empties see a dwindling pool of possibilities. What’s a team to do? Or at least, what’s a team to do once the six highest ranked free-agent pitchers -- Greinke, David Price, Jordan Zimmermann, Johnny Cueto, Jeff Samardzija and Mike Leake -- have all signed elsewhere?