The Dodgers need some help in their starting rotation. That’s no secret at this point. They just came off of a ridiculous stretch of games without a break, and the staff has been taxed heavily along the way. That meant that they had to turn to the farm system to get innings out of guys.
That has partially come from injuries to Clayton Kershaw and Andrew Heaney. Both of those lefties were supposed to be a big part of the rotation in 2022. Heaney went down after 2 starts due to a problem with his shoulder, and Kershaw went down 5 starts in with a lower back/SI joint injury.