LOS ANGELES — Up next on our 2016 Dodgers player reviews is Kenta Maeda, who made the transition from Japanese star to American rookie, and acquitted himself quite well in Year 1.
What went right
On a team racked by injuries, especially to the pitching staff, it was Maeda — whose “irregularities” in and concerns about his physical lead to one of the most team-friendly contracts of all time, an incentive-laden deal with the player assuming the vast majority of risk — who was the only Dodgers pitcher who made it wire to wire unscathed.