Opening Day 2025 Starters

[Frayed Knot]

The grid is getting closer to filled as now less than within 37 hours to the MLB opener from Tokyo as I type.

All times EDT. And, as a service to those of you who live elsewhere ... there is none, just suck it up and do the math!!

	DATE/TIME		ROAD		STARTER		HOME		STARTER
	TUE 3/18 -- 6:00 AM (FOX)		DODGERS		Yoshinobu Yamamoto		CUBS		Shota Imanaga
	THU 3/28 — 4:05		BREWERS		Freddie Peralta		YANKEES		Carlos Rodon
	4:05		ORIOLES		Zach Eflin		BLUE JAYS
	4:05		PHILLIES		Zack Wheeler		NATIONALS
	4:10		RED SOX		Garrett Crochet		RANGERS		Nathan Eovaldi
	4:10		GUARDIANS				ROYALS
	4:10		BRAVES				PADRES
	4:10		GIANTS		Logan Webb		REDS		Hunter Greene
	4:10		PIRATES		Paul Skenes		MARLINS		Sandy Alcantara
	4:10		ANGELS		Yusei Kikuchi		WHITE SOX		Sean Burke
	4:10		METS		Clay Holmes		ASTROS		Framber Valdez
	4:15		TWINS		Pablo López		CARDINALS		Sonny Gray
	7:10		TIGERS		Tarik Skubal		DODGERS		-----
	10:10		ATHLETICS				MARINERS		Logan Gilbert
	10:10		CUBS		-----		DIAMONDBACKS
	FRI 3/29 — 4:10		ROCKIES		Kyle Freeland		RAYS		Shane McClanahan

[Fman99]

Seriously, what the hell kind of name is Framber anyway

[Frayed Knot]

[Catch-22]Why it's Framber's name, Sir.[/Catch-22}

[Frayed Knot]

Cubs score in the 2nd while Imanaga no-hits the Dodgers for the first 4

And so the Cubs went to the pen to start the 5th and now it's 4 - 1 Dodgers.



No Mookie (illness), no Freddie (sore something'er other) for LAD

[MFS62]

=Fman99 post_id=187374 time=1742214676 user_id=86]
Seriously, what the hell kind of name is Framber anyway

[Frayed Knot]

Almost all filled in.

Not sure what it says that five ex-Yanquis, two of them relievers, will be O.D. starters for teams other than the Yanx this year:

Michael King (SD), Clay Holmes (NYM), Luis Severino (SAC), Nathan Eovaldi TEX), Sonny Gray (StL).

	DATE/TIME		ROAD		STARTER		HOME		STARTER
	TUE 3/18		DODGERS		Yoshinobu Yamamoto		CUBS		Shota Imanaga
	THU 3/28 — 4:05		BREWERS		Freddie Peralta		YANKEES		Carlos Rodon
	4:05		ORIOLES		Zach Eflin		BLUE JAYS		Jose Berrios
	4:05		PHILLIES		Zack Wheeler		NATIONALS		MacKenzie Gore
	4:10		RED SOX		Garrett Crochet		RANGERS		Nathan Eovaldi
	4:10		GUARDIANS				ROYALS		Cole Ragans
	4:10		BRAVES		Chris Sale		PADRES		Michael King
	4:10		GIANTS		Logan Webb		REDS		Hunter Greene
	4:10		PIRATES		Paul Skenes		MARLINS		Sandy Alcantara
	4:10		ANGELS		Yusei Kikuchi		WHITE SOX		Sean Burke
	4:10		METS		Clay Holmes		ASTROS		Framber Valdez
	4:15		TWINS		Pablo López		CARDINALS		Sonny Gray
	7:10		TIGERS		Tarik Skubal		DODGERS		---
	10:10		ATHLETICS		Luis Severino		MARINERS		Logan Gilbert
	10:10		CUBS		---		DIAMONDBACKS
	FRI 3/29 — 4:10		ROCKIES		Kyle Freeland		RAYS		Shane McClanahan

[Frayed Knot]

Meanwhile in Tokyo, the Cubs have like two hits over like the last dozen innings and are down [CROSSOUT]6-2[/CROSSOUT] 6-3 in the 5th in Game 2



It was also the MLB debut of Roki Sasaki (not sure if his brother Rori was in the stands). He didn't get hit but he walked four including walking in a run,

threw almost no first-pitch strikes, and lasted just three innings while tossing 25 strikes on 56 pitches.

[whippoorwill]

Those two games in Tokyo were stupid; we had to scramble to do our fantasy draft and now wait 10 days for more

games.

[Fman99]

I remembered yesterday in time to watch the last 5-ish innings of the game.



Today, not so much. Fully blanked and missed all of it, despite being online at 6:30 AM and working from home all morning. My wife + daughter getting ready for work and school are a bit distracting around here.

[Frayed Knot]

So the Dodgers are 1.23% of their way to a perfect season, despite no Mookie or Freddie for either.

Tommy Edman is still hitting HRs so, y'know, it's not just us.

Ohtani got two hits in game 1 and HR'd this morning (on pace for 81 for the season) so the locals were happy.

Sasaki was throwing 100 (or 160km as the scoreboard showed it) but only occasionally getting it over the plate (13 batters faced, 5 walks)

LA didn't hit a ton but Cubbie hurlers walked 15 Dodgers over the two games.



Japanese fans, the female ones in particular, seemed quite taken by Pete Crow-Armstrong. His bleach blond buzz cut with multicolored stars

dyed into it was a favorite of many as noted by numerous signs in the stands displaying the initials P C A surrounded by stars.

[Frayed Knot]

Couple of adjustments to game starting times and for the third game of the season pitchers for the Cubs and Dodgers

	DATE/TIME (EDT)		ROAD		STARTER		HOME		STARTER
	TUE 3/18		DODGERS		Yoshinobu Yamamoto		CUBS		Shota Imanaga
	THU 3/28 — 3:05		BREWERS		Freddie Peralta		YANKEES		Carlos Rodon
	3:07		ORIOLES		Zach Eflin		BLUE JAYS		Jose Berrios
	4:05		PHILLIES		Zack Wheeler		NATIONALS		MacKenzie Gore
	4:10		RED SOX		Garrett Crochet		RANGERS		Nathan Eovaldi
	4:10		GUARDIANS		Tanner Bibee		ROYALS		Cole Ragans
	4:10		BRAVES		Chris Sale		PADRES		Michael King
	4:10		GIANTS		Logan Webb		REDS		Hunter Greene
	4:10		PIRATES		Paul Skenes		MARLINS		Sandy Alcantara
	4:10		ANGELS		Yusei Kikuchi		WHITE SOX		Sean Burke
	4:10		METS		Clay Holmes		ASTROS		Framber Valdez
	4:15		TWINS		Pablo López		CARDINALS		Sonny Gray
	7:10		TIGERS		Tarik Skubal		DODGERS		=#00BF40]Blake Snell
	10:10		ATHLETICS		Luis Severino		MARINERS		Logan Gilbert
	10:10		CUBS		=#00BF40]Justin Steele		DIAMONDBACKS		Zac Gallen
	FRI 3/29 — 4:10		ROCKIES		Kyle Freeland		RAYS		Shane McClanahan

[whippoorwill]

I just looked at my fantasy team and realized not one game starts before late afternoon.



What's up with that?

[Frayed Knot]

Well, the game at SD is 1:00 local time but point still holds.

My guess is that it's probably in the contract with ESPN that they get the first time slot (even if it's just by minutes) thus reducing competition from other games for the first hour anyway. They also have a second prime time game at 7:00 (LAD/DET) so they want to make sure the first game is over before that.

So they get Yanquis and Dodgers and Judge and Shohei all to themselves.