What’s Wrong with the Dodgers Bullpen Right Now?

If you were looking for one potential Achilles heel for the Dodgers heading into the season, it was going to be the bullpen. There was just something that felt like it could falter if a bunch of things didn’t go right. You had a bunch of guys who sort of had career years coming back to make up the majority of the bullpen.

On top of that, there were new rules coming into play that could affect slower working pitchers like Alex Vesia and Caleb Ferguson in ways we were unsure of.

And the big one… there was no closer.

Yes, Dave Roberts entered the season without a closer. Was that it? Could the lack of a named closer have created a cascade effect down the roster with pitchers not really knowing…