This spring has been a homecoming for pitcher Kenta Maeda, who will be back in the Los Angeles Dodgers rotation after spending time as a reliever last autumn.
After a couple of limited stints in the bullpen during the season, Maeda was an effective short reliever in the postseason, allowing one run in 10⅔ innings, while striking out 10 and walking two. But manager Dave Roberts intends to keep Maeda in the starting rotation this season, the right-hander's third in the majors.
"It was good, just to see him in the pen, see his stuff play up like that was great," Roberts told Kyodo News last month at the Dodgers' spring training facility in Glendale, Arizona.