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Los Angeles Dodgers: Predicting season stats for the starting rotation

By Jason Reed

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 27: (L-R) Chris Taylor #3, Rich Hill #44, Clayton Kershaw #22, Ross Stripling, Walker Buehler #21 and their Los Angeles Dodgers teammates look on from the dugout in the ninth inning of Game Four of the 2018 World Series against the Boston Red Sox at Dodger Stadium on October 27, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. The Red Sox defeated the Dodgers 9-6. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 27: (L-R) Chris Taylor #3, Rich Hill #44, Clayton Kershaw #22, Ross Stripling, Walker Buehler #21 and their Los Angeles Dodgers teammates look on from the dugout in the ninth inning of Game Four of the 2018 World Series against the Boston Red Sox at Dodger Stadium on October 27, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. The Red Sox defeated the Dodgers 9-6. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images) /
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4. Rich Hill

  • 13-7, 140 IP, 3.15 ERA, 170 strikeouts

Say what you will about Rich Hill but he has been pretty consistent for the Los Angeles Dodgers the last two seasons. Hill made 25 starts in 2017 and 24 starts in 2018 and only had a difference of three innings pitched between the two years.

Hill’s numbers did take a bit of a dive in the 2018 season compared to the 2017 season. His ERA rose from 3.32 to 3.66 and he was striking out batters as a less frequent rate.

That could be a sign of aging and it might be fair to expect Hill to continue to regress and post an ERA around 4.00 this season. However, while we think his workload won’t really change, we do think that Hill is going to put together his best season as a Dodger.

We have all seen how dominant Hill can be when he is locked in and there is no better example of that then in his start in the World Series, which should have shifted the entire momentum of that series if a certain someone did not pull him.

Hill even got better as the year progressed last year and his blister healed. He posted a 4.55 ERA in the first half and a 3.03 ERA in the second half; batters hit just .187 against Hill in the second half opposed to .260 in the first half.

We are going to see more of second-half Rich Hill in action.

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