Beyond an aging Clayton Kershaw and rookie Bobby Miller, Roberts finds himself deploying a reliable-but-patchwork carousel of “openers” while examining his NLDS options.
LOS ANGELES — You want spots on a postseason roster, by any reasonable measure, to be earned and not given.hello, Jason Heyward
– to make their cases for a spot on the Dodgers’ final roster heading into the start of their best-of-five National League Division Series on Oct. 7. But with the team’s starting rotation, currently held together by an aging Clayton Kershaw hereand a reliable-but-patchwork carousel of openers, Roberts has less leeway to be picky.
“With the pitching, I think sort of by performance by default, it’s becoming pretty clear as well,” Roberts said Monday of the plans for the postseason roster. “But there’s still going to be some tougher conversations that we still have time to evaluate.”somewhat-ominous velocity issues that have nagged him in recent starts. Bobby Miller already has been tabbed for a start in one of the Dodgers’ first two postseason games, on the heels of a standout rookie season in which he has posted a 10-3 record and a 4.02 ERA.and Julio Urias on administrative leave as the MLB investigates allegations of domestic violence, the other potential starters in the Dodgers’ playoff arsenal might be a toss-a-dart-at-a-board situation.
and a 6.61 ERA when he has pitched this season. But he’s expected back at some point Saturday or Sunday, Roberts said, and he could end up getting a look before the regular season is out.Roberts said Monday it was possible but a “longer shot” that right-handed reliever Yency Almonte, out since mid-August with a right knee injury, would make a return before the end of the regular season.
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