“It’s just about monitoring how he’s maintaining his stuff, how he’s bouncing back outing to outing,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said. “Just coming off the surgery that he had and the more abbreviated 2018, it’s not going to be a situation where he can take the ball every fifth day and throw 100 pitches throughout the season and be strong into October. We’re just not to that point yet. So this year is still a little bit of a foundational year in terms of getting more reps and putting more workload on his body.”

Source: Los Angeles Times March 23, 2019 15:00 UTC