How many starts for the Dodgers’ Big Four?

After four consecutive years of running out of starting pitchers in October, the Dodgers last year saw the other side of that coin, with all of their top four starters healthy and thriving during the postseason.

There isn’t one cheat code to win in October — after all, the Dodgers had three-ish starting pitchers healthy in 2024 but rode a strong bullpen and monstrous offense to a championship anyway. In 2025, the postseason bullpen and the offense was functional but not dynamic, but they had Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, and Shohei Ohtani make all 17 starts. Then all four starters pitched in Game 7 of the World Series to close it out.

Glasnow makes his first start this spring on Thursday against the Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch, coming off of a regular season that saw him make 18 starts and 90 1/3 innings. The last three seasons have the top three start totals of his career — 21 starts in 2023, 22 in 2024, before 18 last year, averaging 114 2/3 innings during those three seasons.

Snell might not be ready to start the regular season, but the Dodgers will likely be conservative in making sure he’s fully ready before joining the rotation. That’s how they treated the shoulder-related stints on the injured list for both Snell and Glasnow last season.

Ohtani during his three full two-way seasons with the Angels (2021-23) started 23, 28, and 23 games, the latter cut short in August with the elbow injury that led to his second career Tommy John surgery. This spring, his pitching build up will be on the back fields both in spring training and at least through his time with Japan in the World Baseball Classic. We saw last year as Ohtani was eased into the rotation, the Dodgers are comfortable with having their extra 14th pitcher start games even if he’s not fully stretched out, as they’ll usually have a full complement of bullpen arms to back him.

We noted earlier in February how the Dodgers will surely use several other starting pitchers this season. But for now let’s focus on the big four. Yamamoto, Snell, Glasnow, and Ohtani during last regular season combined to make 73 starts, less than half of the season.

Today’s question is how many regular season starts will Yamamoto, Snell, Glasnow, and Ohtani make in 2026?