Dodgers: LA Should Go With a 6-Man Starting Rotation

The Dodgers should finally be getting Clayton Kershaw back this week. After waiting for his return from a back issue, Los Angeles should be getting his help back in the starting rotation by this weekend in San Francisco. And that will be huge for a starting staff that has labored through the last month.

But that shouldn’t mean that someone gets bumped back to the bullpen immediately. The Dodgers have to decide what to do with Mitch White, 1 of the 2 guys filling in with Kershaw and Andrew Heaney out. But the best move might be keeping it at 6 guys for a while.

Part of the reason for that is simply the heavy workload. Dodgers pitchers have been taxed as of late, playing a heck of a lot of…