Plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).Shohei Ohtani, the star of the two-knife stream, will return to the two-knife flow this year, and the team is also expected to use a six-man starting rotation in the new season, and Mike Petrelllo, a reporter on the official website of the major leagues, recently wrote an article pointing out that in addition to the Dodgers this year, there are also Red Sox and Mets who have also followed up, and the six-man starting rotation will gradually become a new trend.

Shohei Ohtani, the star of the two-knife stream

Pite Yero, a columnist for Major League Soccer's website, wrote that the six-man starting rotation is gradually forming a trend, which may be influenced by Japanese baseball, and some experts believe that it can give the starting pitchers more time to rest and reduce the risk of injury, improve the efficiency of pitching, which can also reduce the burden on the cowshed.

In recent years, the major league schedule has become longer and more intensive, which has also gradually increased the number of days off for starting pitchers, and it is now more common for starting pitchers to take 5 days off than 4 days off, and the Orioles, Nationals, Mariners, Phillies and Astronauts and Angels have all adopted a six-man rotation in recent years.

Pitjero took last year's World Series champion Dodgers as an example, played a total of 178 games last year, including 162 in the regular season and 16 in the playoffs, and only had 139 days of rest to start the new season, 20 more than when the New York Giants won the championship in 1954, and 54 fewer days off, and the Dodgers pitched 1582.2 innings last year, more than the 1427 innings of the New York Giants at that time.

Pitjero admits that the six-man rotation is unlikely to be popularized in the major leagues in a short period of time, and not all teams will adopt it, insisting on a five-man starter, and some teams will only adopt a six-man starting rotation when they are short on rest days or when they want to keep their pitchers healthy. In the past four years, the six-man rotation has gradually become a trend in the major leagues, and this will continue to happen in 2025.