The 2024 Dodgers famously won the World Series in spite of their pitching, not because of it. Last year’s group had a 4.50 October ERA, one of the highest marks of any Series-winning teams ever, and you probably remember the various mound contortions they had to go through just to get the ring. Such as: the bullpen games in NLDS Game 4, NLCS Games 2 and 6, and Game 4 of the World Series, when they were so shorthanded that they made Ben Casparius just the second pitcher in history to have his first career start come in the World Series.

They were so thin in the rotation, as it turns out, that starters threw just 42% of their postseason innings, the fewest of any champion in AL/NL history. (Which is a somewhat unfair historical comparison, given that for decades the entire postseason

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