{"id":548030,"date":"2026-01-31T19:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/548030\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:14:15","slug":"unscripted-reality-of-mlb-has-teams-following-pitching-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/548030\/","title":{"rendered":"Unscripted reality of MLB has teams following pitching trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/15\/sports\/ryan-weathers-thrilled-to-be-following-fathers-path-to-yankees\/#:~:text=Ryan%20Weathers%20ready%20to%20put,mobility%20and%20my%20prep%20work.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yankees traded for Ryan Weathers<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/21\/sports\/mets-in-deep-talks-to-acquire-freddy-peralta-from-brewers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mets for Freddy Peralta<\/a>, they were not only fortifying rotations \u2014 in the Mets\u2019 case, finding someone to pitch atop it \u2014 but participating in what has become a growing trend:<\/p>\n<p>Overstocking their starter cupboards.<\/p>\n<p>Teams have long appreciated the adage about \u201cnever having enough pitching,\u201d notably starters. Thus, each spring training was about not only preparing the main five, but defining the next five starters as well. But that usually was a mix of prospects, long men and minor league signings.<\/p>\n<p>More and more \u2014 and the Dodgers have been a \u201cfollow the leader\u201d here \u2014 clubs are amassing six, seven and maybe even eight legitimate starter candidates then sorting it out as they go along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Yankees traded for Ryan Weathers and the Mets for Freddy Peralta, they were not only fortifying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,753,599,57,4,61,62,144,25,4216,40,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-548030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-freddy-peralta","10":"tag-hardball","11":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","17":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","18":"tag-phillies","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-columnists","21":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115991312164048382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}