Earlier in the season it looked like the Dodgers would smash their own franchise record of 40 pitchers used, set one year prior in 2024. The 2025 team was already at their 27th pitcher by May 18, with 115 games remaining on the schedule.

But they only used five new pitchers after the All-Star break, and were stuck on 39 pitchers since late August. Until Andrew Heaney came to the rescue in the final weekend of the season.

Heaney already pitched for the Dodgers in 2022, and was technically a Dodger for at least a few minutes during the 2014 winter meetings, when he was part of the haul from the Marlins in the Dee Strange-Gordon trade, but was in turn flipped to the Angels for Howie Kendrick.

Heaney was solid during his injury-shortened 2022 with the Dodgers, with a 3.10 ERA and 35.4-perce

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