Flaherty

I think I know why Jack Flaherty left the Dodgers for Detroit in free agency: He didn’t want to go on the IL.

His 2017 Tony-winning revival of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s “Once on This Island” not only made the 1990 musical politically viable in an era more scrupulous about racial representation and cultural appropriation, but the vibrancy of the staging uncovered new realms of enchantment.

The loss of frontline starters is nothing new for the Dodgers, whose injury problems last year practically forced them to acquire Jack Flaherty at the trade deadline.

Flaherty and Ahrens’ score is tailored to the characters with bespoke exactness.

As comparison, probably the pitcher closest to having a season with this much control was Flaherty in 2013, when he walked 10 in 89 innings, struck out 112 and went 13-0 as a junior.