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Bill Plunkett

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317 total appearances

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

They're not going to have the, you know, lead the league in strikeouts because they're not going to face enough batters and pitch enough innings.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

So the quality is going to be there.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

I don't know if the quantity will be,

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

will hurt them when it comes to the voting for those things.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

But that's the way the Dodgers operate.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

No team in baseball has given their starting pitchers more rest since Andrew Friedman got here.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

The five or four days off pitch on the fifth day is a rarity with the Dodgers.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

It's extra rest whenever possible.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

So you end up at the end of the season with –

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

10 starters making 12 to 20 starts each instead of, you know, five guys that we're going to run with over and over and over again.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

They tried that in Kershaw's prime and it killed him in October every time.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

They didn't have the depth.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

He wasn't at his best, you know, that kind of stuff.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

It cost him in October.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

And now they have the depth to do it that way and keep those guys fresh.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

It will not be that regimented.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Edwin in the ninth will be the only thing that's locked in.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

First of all, Phillips, I don't think we see until August.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Yeah, I do.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
West Coast Bias: Dodgers Early Spring Training Takeaways With Bill Plunkett

Gratterall, I don't know when we see.