Dodgers: How to best handle eight starting pitchers

The Dodgers currently have eight pitchers who have started games on the active roster. And Rich Hill is on the way, seeking a return in the coming weeks.

That makes nine potential starting pitchers with a less than a month separating the Dodgers from the postseason. Nine pitchers with varying degrees of health and length and postseason experience, but nine nonetheless.

That’s a lot of options for Roberts, which isn’t a bad thing.

Of course, with all of these options, a few are sure things.

Clayton Kershaw and Walker Buehler will be on the postseason roster and they will be starting games, health allowing.

But after this dynamic duo, the picture becomes far murkier, even though it includes plenty of All-Stars and top rookies. So what to do with all of these arms, a plethora of pitchers? Throw them all in the bullpen? Let all start down the stretch to keep them stretched out and ready for long relief and starts come October?

In this article, I look at the seven pitchers not named Kershaw or Buehler to try and sort out what role they should play in the rest of the regular season and in the postseason, simply by going down the depth chart of starting pitchers and transitioning to the starters listed as being part of the bullpen.