The players and manager didn’t execute well enough in the Division Series loss to the Padres. But the front office failed, too.
Organizational arrogance? Organizational hubris?
The point: There were plenty of arms, but also a good number of questions. And the available pitchers on the market at the deadline either went elsewhere or stayed put. The Dodgers could have pursued Luis Castillo from the Reds; Seattle’s Jerry DiPoto aggressively won that bidding, and Castillo had an impact for the Mariners. Or they could have traded for the Marlins’ Pablo Lopez, who wound up staying put and had a 3.75 ERA and career high in innings for Miami.
You can ask why Gonsolin in Game 3 and not Tyler Anderson. But they didn’t have enough healthy and stretched-out starting pitchers. And either way, it was going to come down to bullpen usage. Roberts, as usual, will get the lion’s share of the blame for the pitching decisions. But always keep in mind that pitcher usage, among other things, is if not heavily scripted at least laid out beforehand in consultation with Friedman and the analytics staff.
Consider: Anderson pitched five two-hit innings on 86 pitches Saturday night. He probably could have started the sixth as well against Juan Soto, Manny Machado and Brandon Drury, and in fact said afterward, “I could’ve gone five more. I would have thrown 150 pitches if I was allowed to, if they would’ve let me. But you never second guess.”
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