First thought: This is no kind of team to give 88-year-old Vin Scully in his last season as the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers. These are not The Boys of Summer. They are not The Big Blue Wrecking Crew.

The Dodgers not quite awful but they certainly are not good — which you might reasonably have expected when ownership committed to spending $245 million on salaries this season for the fattest payroll in the bigs.

In the won-loss column, they are the epitome of mediocrity — 21 victories, 21 defeats — after tonight’s loss to the Angels.

But it’s scarier than that.

This is a team that has no competent pitching between starter Clayton Kershaw and closer Kenley Jansen.

The Dodgers are 8-1 in games started by Kershaw, but 13-20 when he does not throw. It hardly matters how good Jansen is (and he’s very good), because the Dodgers rarely get to the ninth inning with a lead.

The Dodgers’ starting rotation looked weak before the season started … and that was an accurate assessment. Soft-tossing Scott Kazmir as the No. 2 guy. Kenta Maeda, fresh off a plane from Japan as No. 3. A wing and a prayer and various non-entities as Nos. 4 and 5.

Unless pitchers with no significant history of competence in the major leagues suddenly start producing quality performances, the Dodgers are going to have to out-hit people, and with most of their lineup struggling (Yasiel Puig, as always; Adrian Gonzalez, Howie Kendrick, Yasmani Grandal, Justin Turner), that seems unlikely.

Which is how a lousy team like the Angels could take three of four from them in a pair of two-game series this week.

What are the Dodgers’ pitching options?

Hope Hyun-jin Ryu comes back from shoulder surgery better than ever — sometime in  June, if they are lucky. Pray that Maeda rediscovers the form that made everyone optimistic over his first three starts. Wish, wish and wish some more that Kazmir, 32, is not as “done” as recent results suggest.

They also could try to do something with Julio Urias, the 19-year-old Mexican called “the best” left-handed pitcher in the minors by MLB.com.

The Dodgers however, are treating Urias like he is made of porcelain. Their position pretty much is: “He hasn’t created enough of an innings-base to be a starting pitcher, and we don’t want to risk overuse if we put him with in the bullpen.”

So they leave him down in Oklahoma City, where he has a 1.25 ERA in 36 innings and 38 strikeouts against eight walks.

The Dodgers’ other option, assuming the Bolsingers and Striplings of the club fail to come around, is to get a starting pitcher from somewhere else. Or two. Preferably guys they can just buy, since they have more money than prospects.

I do not fault them for not keeping Zack Greinke, who was sensational in his third and final season in Los Angeles, going 19-3 with an ERA of 1.66. Arizona signed him to a six-year, $206.5-million contract (he will be 38 when it runs out). The edgy right-hander already has been knocked around a few times, with the Diamondbacks.

Plus, the Dodgers already are giving crazy money ($35.6m) this year to Kershaw, who actually deserves it.

Their pitching strategy, as best we can puzzle it out, seems to be to hope they hang around the top of a weak division, the National League West, and pick up someone from a bargain bin — or from clubs who will accept contract relief in lieu of prospects for old mediocrities on benighted teams like, say, James Shields, come July and August — if they are still in contention, that is.

Meantime, all that money and only two pitchers worth a damn.

Luckily, the rest of us can rarely see them on TV and appreciate how shaky they are because of the eternal war over cable fees.

But Vin Scully is right there behind home plate for home games and it isn’t dignified to make him have to watch this lots-of-nothing-special team.