Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pointed to late April as a point in the season where it made sense for the club to insert Julio Urias into the starting rotation. Over recent days, the specific date appeared to be Thursday.
Although Roberts had already revealed Kenta Maeda was having his scheduled start pushed back one day — to Friday — it wasn’t until Tuesday that the second-year manager officially named Urias the starter for the series finale against the San Francisco Giants.
With the 20-year-old on the verge of making his first Major League start of the year, Roberts said Urias will remain in the Dodgers rotation for the season, per Bill Plunkett of the Southern California News Group:
“That was why we did what we did,” Roberts said.