5 pitchers the Los Angeles Dodgers should pursue

The Los Angeles Dodgers have lost out on Zack Greinke, Jeff Samardzija and Johnny Cueto. So, who’s left?

No team has arguably had it worse this offseason so far than the Los Angeles Dodgers. Starting from a Game 5 loss to the New York Mets at home in the National League Divisional Series, to seeing manager Don Mattingly be let go, it’s been a rough few months for the organization.

The team lost Zack Greinke when he opted out of his contract to become a free agent, and subsequently watched the 2015 NL Cy Young Award runner-up sign a six-year, $206 million contract with their NL West rival, the Arizona Diamondbacks — that and the Diamondbacks traded several top prospects to the Atlanta Braves in a trade for Shelby Miller, which helped bolster their rotation for 2016. Another NL West rival, the San Francisco Giants, whose success the Dodgers have been looking to emulate in recent seasons, targeted and landed both Johnny Cueto with a six-year, $130 million agreement and Jeff Samardzija with a five-year, $90 million agreement respectively.

While the Dodgers still have Clayton Kershaw, their rotation behind arguably the best pitcher in baseball is questionable. With Brett Anderson, Alex Wood, Hyun-Jin Ryu, and soon, Brandon McCarthy all making up something resembling a major league quality rotation, the Dodgers could get by without a major addition. However, losing Greinke undoubtedly hurts and the team would like to add an arm of his caliber, making it quite possible for the Dodgers to still sign one more starting pitcher before heading into 2016.

Here is MLB.com’s Tracker where you can see all of the starting pitchers who remain unsigned left on the free agent market, and here are five still available free agent starting pitchers that the Dodgers should look to acquire: