MILWAUKEE — The Dodgers already had ace-level pitchers in their rotation when they decided last winter to add another.

Enter two-time Cy Young award winner Blake Snell, who arrived on a five-year contract worth $182 million, joining Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow to give the Dodgers three top options.

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Also in the rotation mix were Shohei Ohtani in his return to pitching after a year rehabbing from elbow reconstruction and a future Hall of Famer in Clayton Kershaw.

“We felt strongly that not only could [Snell] help us in the regular season and accomplishing that first goal, but what he would bring to our staff in October,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said Monday before Snell dominated in his team’s 2-1 victory over the Brewers in Game 1 of the NLCS.