A baseball season takes a while to complete, and it’s especially long for teams that start early overseas and for teams that advance all the way to the World Series. The 2025 Los Angeles Dodgers started their season on March 18 in Tokyo and ended on November 1 in Toronto, the longest season in MLB history.

Over the course of a long season, teams need an absurdly large cast of characters, sometimes just to get by. Which leads to factoids like this: for the roughly 11 weeks Lou Trivino was active with the Dodgers, nobody on the team pitched more often.

Trivino started the season with the Giants, got designated for assignment by San Francisco and signed a minor league contract with the Dodgers on May 11. One week later he was active again in the majors, and lasted just over two months in a

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