Hudson’s return after a year-long recovery from a torn ACL has added “another adult in the ’pen,” as Manager Dave Roberts put it, welcomed by the other relievers.
LOS ANGELES — The guys in the Dodgers’ bullpen were so anxious for Daniel Hudson to rejoin them that left-hander Caleb Ferguson said they joked about going to management and telling them Hudson could skip his rehab assignment and just do it at the big-league level with them even if it meant extra work for everyone else.
“We’ve never had to manage everybody’s emotions the way we’ve had to now . We’ve always had a closer or somebody in that nature of a veteran presence. There’s always been that. … I think just not being able to go to somebody and go, ‘Hey, how do we do this?’ I don’t want to say we’ve been missing it because everybody knows how to handle rough patches on their own. But as a group, we had to learn it. A veteran guy brings that already to a group.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts called Hudson “another adult in the ’pen” who can preach the merits of “accountability” and going after hitters aggressively. “Then the ball is in his court, to be honest, to go out there and perform,” Roberts said. “The sample that we’ve seen up to this point – whether it be related solely to performance or a combo of injury, finger blister, layered onto performance – it hasn’t been where we need it to be. Noah understands that. So I think for us, the challenge is to go out there and be the pitcher we know he can be.”
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