LOS ANGELES -- For most of Spring Training last year, to see pitching prospect Walker Buehler, you had to journey to Minor League camp, where you would be joining, well, about the entire Dodgers front office.
This spring will be different. The 23-year-old Buehler's meteoric trip from Class A Advanced last April to a September callup puts him in big league camp with an outside shot to make the starting rotation and an odds-on shot to be the most intensely watched young Dodgers pitcher since Julio Urias.
The Dodgers need Buehler to fulfill his promise as the organization's top pitching prospect in place of the 21-year-old Urias, who previously wore that label.