![]() He'll be making his first career Opening Day start. I also think the soon-to-be 25-year-old is on the verge of breaking out as one of the game's very best pitchers. □ /15Kqc2s5lh- Rob Friedman September 9, 2018īerrios is pretty good already. José Berríos, Ridiculous 84mph Curveball (home plate view). Snell is making his first career Opening Day start. This will be Verlander's 11th career Opening Day start, tying him for 10th most in history. ET - stream regionally on fuboTV) will be played at different times, so we can give both matchups our full attention. Those are the four.įortunately, deGrom vs. Verlander, Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling, and Warren Spahn. His 290 strikeouts last year were a career-high, and he now is one of only four pitchers with three second place finishes in the Cy Young voting to his credit. Verlander turned 36 n February and he is an ageless wonder. He's only had the one elite season thus far, so I'm willing to defer to deGrom and Scherzer, two guys who've been great for several years.Īnyway, Snell posted a 1.89 ERA in 180 2/3 innings last season, becoming the first American League hurler to post a sub-2.00 ERA since peak Pedro Martinez in 2000. Cy Young runner-up matchup, with Snell narrowly beating out Verlander for the award in 2018. This might be the second best matchup in the all the years I've been ranking Opening Day pitching matchups. A finger issue pushed him back to the third game of the regular season in 2017.Ģ. He started the season opener in 2015, 2016, and 2018. For Scherzer, this is career Opening Day start No. Noah Syndergaard started the season opener the last two years and Matt Harvey the year before that. This will be deGrom's first career Opening Day start, if you can believe that. Add in the fact these are two division rivals likely to battle for the NL East title (or just a wild-card spot) all summer, and you have the best Opening Day pitching matchup in years. He's a three-time Cy Young winner himself. Scherzer struck out 300 batters in 220 2/3 innings last year and received the one first place Cy Young vote deGrom did not receive. The worst case scenario is what, two of the top five pitchers in baseball? That's still really good.ĭeGrom was historically great last season, pitching to a 1.70 ERA in 217 innings en route to a near unanimous Cy Young win. If you don't think deGrom and Scherzer are the two best pitchers in the game, that's fine. Cy Young runner-up, and the two best pitchers in baseball at the top of their game. I've ranked the Opening Day pitching matchups every year since 2013 and this is, pretty easily, the best matchup during that time. NL Cy Young runner-up on Opening Day in Washington. ![]() The six pitchers in the top three matchups have combined for eight Cy Young awards. So, with that in mind, here are the 2019 Opening Day pitching matchup rankings. ![]() That's how we get 16 different Opening Day pitching matchups. The Athletics and Mariners had their Opening Day in Tokyo last week, then this week they will face other teams playing their Opening Day. There are 15 games on the schedule Thursday but we're going to rank 16 Opening Day pitching matchups because of the series in Japan. Is someone making their first start with a new team? Facing his former team? Coming back from injury? That sort of thing. The better the pitchers the better the matchup, right? Right. Given that, it's time to compile our annual Opening Day pitching matchup rankings. Every club starts whoever they deem their best available pitcher in the first game of the new season. That's when the season really gets underway.Įach year Opening Day brings a ton of quality pitching matchups. This Thursday, March 28, is the traditional Opening Day ( here's a full schedule). Well, no, the 2019 regular season actually opened in Japan last week. ![]()
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