The Dodgers’ Enigma: What’s Holding Back Baseball’s Most Promising Powerhouse?
The Dodgers lost River Ryan, Gavin Stone and Emmet Sheehan to injuries last year, with Ryan and Stone being injured enough to miss all of 2025 as well. Sheehan has returned and looked decent (3.86 ERA in 35.0 innings), which is a good sign.
With these three pitchers healthy, the backup plan for an oft-injured rotation had plenty of good options. Without them, it was down to Dustin May, Landon Knack, Tony Gonsolin, Ben Casparius and Bobby Miller. That’s still a lot of names, but not much production as none has an ERA under 4.50. The rotation has a 4.10 ERA that ranks 18th in the majors and a lot of it comes down to the Plan B not being good enough.



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