Opening Day Starters - 2021

[Frayed Knot]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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/http://www.billjamesonline.com/polls_ratings/starting_pitcher_rankings/

[Edgy MD]

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!