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The hardest part of a team to maintain from year to year is the bullpen, with unheralded pitchers breaking out one year and struggling the next, which has general managers reaching for the antacid tablets.
There are plenty of question marks when it comes to the bullpens in the National
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The Dodgers have more star-quality starting pitchers than practically any team in the sport, and the Padres’ rotation looks to be stronger than the ’84 and ’98 groups that produced World Series appearances. But the rest of the National League West can boast of quality and, at least in some cases, depth.
Here is a look at the five projected rotations, and the questions each face:
D-backs
The known: The D-backs rotation seemed set when camp opened, though we ve still got a long way to go before Opening Day. As it stands now it looks to be Madison Bumgarner, Zac Gallen, Merrill Kelly, Luke Weaver and Caleb Smith. The team is convinced that with a normal spring ramp up, Bumgarner will bounce back from a rough 2020. Weaver is also looking to rebound from a bad season. Gallen and Kelly are both coming off outstanding seasons and Smith showed plenty of positive signs after coming over from the Marlins in a Deadline deal.
Diamondbacks 2, Padres 7: Tattooed by Tatis
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Record: 0-3. Five-inning record: 0-3
Three games into spring, the Diamondbacks are winless, and have been outscored by the opposition to the tune of 19-5. Of course, it’s only spring training and is as meaningless as the most meaningless of meaningless things. But when you’ve been staring out the window and waiting for spring for the past five months, you want something more than. [gestures vaguely in the direction of the underwhelming results of the past three days]. However, this was the first time it was an Arizona starter who got lit up.