The Dodgers asked for their starting rotation to go all in during the 2025 World Series, and that included each of their four playoff starters contributing on the mound in Game 7.<\/p>\n
Blake Snell, who missed four months of the regular season last year, put in 34 innings of work across six postseason appearances en route to securing his first championship, but the cost of such a hefty workload has resulted in him undergoing a very slow offseason. He has yet to throw off a mound so far this spring as he continues to suffer from discomfort in his left shoulder, and as a result, Dave Roberts made a bleak remark about Snell\u2019s status for opening day, per Sonja Chen of MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s not on a mound right now. He\u2019s not in games,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said Saturday. \u201cThe odds of him starting the season are probably zero.\u201d<\/p>\n With Snell out of the picture to begin the season, the back end of the Dodgers rotation opens up an additional slot for the taking between the likes of young arms such as Gavin Stone, River Ryan and Justin Wrobleski.<\/p>\n Dodgers fans were throughly disappointed with Tanner Scott\u2019s first season in the team\u2019s bullpen, and Scott has reciprocated those sentiments as well.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of things were not going right for me last year,\u201d Scott said Saturday. \u201cSo yeah, it was tough. But it\u2019s a new year. \u2026 Wash it, flush it like a toilet, and just let it be. It is what it is. Wasn\u2019t that great last year. But new year.\u201d<\/p>\n