Bill Plunkett
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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.
So the quality is going to be there.
I don't know if the quantity will be,
will hurt them when it comes to the voting for those things.
But that's the way the Dodgers operate.
No team in baseball has given their starting pitchers more rest since Andrew Friedman got here.
The five or four days off pitch on the fifth day is a rarity with the Dodgers.
It's extra rest whenever possible.
So you end up at the end of the season with –
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.
They tried that in Kershaw's prime and it killed him in October every time.
They didn't have the depth.
He wasn't at his best, you know, that kind of stuff.
It cost him in October.
And now they have the depth to do it that way and keep those guys fresh.
It will not be that regimented.
Edwin in the ninth will be the only thing that's locked in.
First of all, Phillips, I don't think we see until August.
Yeah, I do.
Gratterall, I don't know when we see.