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The Dodgers\u2019 plan for their rotation this season didn\u2019t go the way anyone wanted it to, to say the least.<\/p>\n
They started the year with Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Bobby Miller, Gavin Stone, and James Paxton as their rostered starters, and only one of them ended up on the World Series roster.<\/p>\n
Glasnow was injured on-and-off throughout the second half of the year, Miller was demoted due to poor performance, Stone was injured in September and underwent shoulder surgery that may keep him out for all of 2025, and Paxton was traded at the deadline.<\/p>\n
Even Yamamoto was MIA for nearly three months with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Dodgers talked a lot about the possibility of a six-man rotation\u00a0when Glasnow, Yamamoto, and Paxton were still in the mix \u2014 Glasnow and Paxton were historically injury-prone, Yamamoto was used to only pitching once a week in NPB \u2014\u00a0but because starters kept dropping like flies, they never really got there.<\/p>\n
Even when Walker Buehler and Clayton Kershaw returned from injury, and even with all of the rookies who came up to fill spots, the Dodgers were still unable to execute the vision.<\/p>\n
At the recent GM Meetings, Brandon Gomes said it was\u00a0a \u201cfair bet\u201d the Dodgers would shoot for a six-man\u00a0rotation again in 2025, when they\u2019ll hopefully have Glasnow, Shohei Ohtani, and Tony Gonsolin back on top of Yamamoto, Kershaw, and whoever they might sign in the offseason.<\/p>\n
However, Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior left some reason to doubt that strategy. In an appearance on\u00a0Dodgers Territory, he said, \u201cIt\u2019s not the easiest thing to do. [\u2026] I think it\u2019s doable; the biggest issue is, do you have enough depth to be able to do that?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n