My whole life I’ve been told: “the teams that win in October have the stellar starting pitching to take them to the promised land”
Now the Dodgers have been showing that you don’t need stellar starting pitching, you can win with hit-or-miss starters and an elite bullpen that can win 2+ games all by themselves in addition to holding down the fort when your starters have a bad day
Will this cause more investment in high leverage relief arms? Especially as starting pitchers became both increasingly harder to keep healthy and increasingly more expensive