MLB Network hosts predicts Dodgers will work out another blockbuster trade with Marlins

It's really hard to tell with this Dodgers front office, but if we had to guess, we'd say that they're probably done signing or acquiring starting pitchers this offseason. A look at their options for the rotation next season reveals that they could have, at some point in 2025, seven rostered starters: Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shohei Ohtani, Clayton Kershaw, Tony Gonsolin, and Dustin May.

Ohtani, Kershaw, and May might not be ready by Opening Day, which would leave a rookie (maybe Landon Knack, though that's not ideal) to fill in as the fifth starter on that initial roster, but once those three are ready to return, the Dodgers will have more starters than they'll know what to do with.

If they were going to get one more starter, which feels like a stretch at this point, it'd probably only be for one year, potentially a guy who could be traded at the deadline in order to make space for whoever's coming off the IL.

But you also never know with this squad. The Dodgers made it very clear in 2024 that the pitching staff is extremely breakable, and Andrew Friedman said he was "naive" to believe that the team had enough depth going into the season.

So we could plausibly see some additions throughout the year, despite the roster bloat. Greg Amsinger of MLB Network named Sandy Alcantara as a trade piece the Dodgers could acquire at some point during the 2025 season.

MLB Network's Greg Amsinger named Sandy Alcantara as a potential trade candidate for Dodgers

Amsinger's suggestion was met by laughter from his fellow panelists on MLB Tonight, which wasn't exactly a bad reaction to have. The Dodgers have at least one too many starters as it is, the majority of whom are on long-term deals, and Alcantara still has two more guaranteed years left on his contract with the Marlins, along with a club option for 2027.

Kershaw has yet to officially return to the Dodgers, despite stating his intentions, and he could retire at the end of the 2025 season. This year is also May's last year of arbitration eligibility before hitting free agency, but what would the Dodgers do with Alcantara in the interim?

They could toss May to the bullpen, which feels likely to happen anyway, even without the addition of another starter, but that still leaves the Dodgers where they started: with seven starters and one odd man out.

The only way that the Dodgers might get another starter during the season is if something catastrophic happens to the rotation (again). There's a non-zero chance of that happening, but for the good of the team, we should hope that it doesn't.