Hello and happy Tuesday.
Because active rosters allowed for 30 players to start the year, and because most starting pitcher’s arms aren’t fully up to speed, the San Francisco Giants packed 16 pitchers in their duffel bag when they headed to Los Angeles. There’s only so much we can learn from four games, but it did start to tell us something about how Gabe Kapler plans on using pitchers this year (if the season continues).
Here’s how many appearances each pitcher made in the four-game series, with their total innings in parenthesis:
3 appearances: Rico Garcia (2.