Los Angeles Dodgers: Why you shouldn’t worry about the bullpen

2. The bullpen will get a shot in the arm when Clayton Kershaw and Rich Hill return to the rotation

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ depth in the starting rotation was heavily touted entering the 2019 season and that depth is being tested right away as both Clayton Kershaw and Rich Hill are on the injured list.

Throw in the fact that Walker Buehl

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er got off to a slow start (maybe because of his slow spring?) and that Julio Urias is on a strict innings limit and the Dodgers’ rotation is much thinner right now than it would usually be.

And the crazy part is that even while it is down two significant arms, it has been thriving thus far this season.

When Kershaw and Hill do return the surplus of pitchers in the starting rotation are going to have to find somewhere to pitch. That is going to bump two arms to the bullpen, which presumably is going to be Ross Stripling and Julio Urias.

You could make the case that Kenta Maeda should go to the bullpen with Stripling staying in the rotation if he thrives. Either way, the effect is the same.

Right there the Dodgers are adding two great arms in the bullpen that can, at the bare minimum, provide one scoreless inning on most nights. Stripling instantly slides into Brock Stewart’s role as the bullpen arm that can go two-three innings and Urias can be a dominant seventh and eighth inning guy.

We all want to see Urias in the rotation but I would rather him be in the bullpen now and the rotation in October.

Stripling and Urias replace the two struggling arms in Stewart and Garcia while the team hopes that Kelly and Baez turn it around.

Both guys are talented so they should be better and suddenly the Los Angeles Dodgers’ bullpen situation looks much more manageable.