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Opening Day Starters - 2021

Frayed Knot Mar 28 2021 05:57 PM

Only Pittsburgh and Colorado are uncommitted (at least publicly) as to their OD starter We know all about the lone 7 PM game, but here's how the rest of the slate plays out on Thusday and who's the honored man in each. (Home team listed second in each case) 1:05 NYY Gerritt Cole TOR Hyun-Jin Ryu 1:10 CLE Shane Bieber DET Matthew Boyd 2:10 BAL John Means BOS Nathan Eovaldi 2:10 MIN Kenta Maeda MIL Brandon Woodruff 2:20 PIT ?? Mitch Keller ?? CHC Kyle Hendricks 3:05 ATL Max Fried PHI Aaron Nola 4:10 LAD Clayton Kershaw COL ?? German Marquez ?? 4:10 ARZ Madison Bumgarner SDP Yu Darvish 4:10 StL Jack Flaherty CIN Luis Castillo 4:10 TEX Kyle Gibson KCR Brad Keller 4:10 TBR Tyler Glasnow MIA Sandy Alcantara 7:09 NYM Jacob deGrom WAS Max Scherzer 10:05 CWS Lucas Giolito LAA Dylan Bundy 10:07 HOU Zack Greinke OAK Chris Bassitt 10:10 SFG Kevin Gausman SEA Marco Gonzalez

Edgy MD Mar 28 2021 07:02 PM Re: Opening Day Starters - 2021

I guess I sort of thought that Madison Bumgarner was Dungarner, and had gone off to live with Tim Lincecum and Barry Zito at the Vida Blue Home for Prematurely Declining Bay Area Aces.

Frayed Knot Mar 28 2021 07:15 PM Re: Opening Day Starters - 2021

He's certainly coming off a bad year and is only getting the OD nod due an injury to Zac Gallen. MLB.com lists him as the 25th best of the 30 OD starters. They have JdG at #2, btw, behind Shane Bieber

Edgy MD Mar 28 2021 07:21 PM Re: Opening Day Starters - 2021

I have a project on the mental back burner to look at each class of opening day starters and figure out who was history's best — who was the best class at that moment and which class would ultimately achieve the most in their careers?

batmagadanleadoff Mar 28 2021 09:55 PM Re: Opening Day Starters - 2021

Bill James's Pitcher Rankings top.six: 1. Gerrit Cole 2. Jacob deGrom 3. Trevor Bauer 4. Clayton Kershaw 5. Shane Bieber 6. Max Scherzer Pitchers with a Mets connection: 26. Carlos Carrasco 29. Zack Wheeler 67. Taijuan Walker 70. Rick Porcello http://www.billjamesonline.com/polls_ratings/starting_pitcher_rankings/

Edgy MD Mar 29 2021 03:07 PM Re: Opening Day Starters - 2021

Stroman and Syndergaard are also part of a gang tied at 79th there, but I guess it's a floor, because Stephen Tarpley, Jordan Yamamoto, and Robert Gsellman are there too. Look, Eickoff!