LOS ANGELES - Severino Gonzalez returns to the rotation tonight and David Buchanan will be back on Saturday. Both are trying to establish themselves as big-league pitchers.
Cesar Hernandez, Freddy Galvis and Maikel Franco continue to make the most of their own, first, full-fledged major league opportunities. That's really the point of a last-place team in the middle of an organizational rebuild, giving young players the opportunity to play and seeing whether any of them have staying power.
Domonic Brown falls into a different category. He first got his opportunity as a big-league regular in July 2012.