Check out all 30 Opening Day starters

Opening Day begins are particular, whether or not it’s a younger pitcher getting his first likelihood in that highlight or a veteran who has carried out it many occasions earlier than. There’s the joy, the pageantry and the prospect to assist your workforce start the season in type.

Each yr, solely 30 pitchers are honored with such an task, and now we all know who can be in that choose group for 2023, heading into the total slate of openers on March 30.

Opening Day will function eight Cy Young Award winners on the mound (Sandy Alcantara, Shane Bieber, Corbin Burnes, Jacob deGrom, Zack Greinke, Corey Kluber, Max Scherzer and Blake Snell) and 21 All-Star hurlers. In addition, 5 pitchers — deGrom, Kyle Gibson, Kluber, Pablo López and Kyle Muller — will take the mound on Opening Day in a debut efficiency with their new golf equipment.

As we glance forward, here’s a reality to learn about every of this yr’s Opening Day starters.

All recreation occasions are ET. Noted in parentheses are what number of occasions that pitcher has began on Opening Day, together with the upcoming ‘23 begin.

Giants at Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

Logan Webb (SF, 2nd): Webb would be the first Giants pitcher to make consecutive Opening Day begins since Madison Bumgarner in 2016-17. The right-hander is coming off a season during which he recorded a 2.90 ERA over 192 1/3 innings and obtained a few down-ballot NL Cy Young Award votes.
2022 OD starter: Webb

Gerrit Cole (NYY, fifth): For the fourth straight season, the Yankees will begin Cole on Opening Day. Cole, who now holds New York’s all-time single-season strikeout report, joins CC Sabathia (2009-14), Mel Stottlemyre (1967-70), Lefty Gomez (1932-37) and Jack Chesbro (1903-06) as the one pitchers to make at the least 4 consecutive Opening Day begins for the Yanks.
2022 OD starter: Cole

Braves at Nationals, 1:05 p.m.

Max Fried (ATL, third): Fried has began the Braves’ previous two openers and can take the ball once more for Atlanta at Nationals Park. Coming off a 2022 marketing campaign during which he posted a 2.48 ERA in 185 1/3 innings, Fried will attempt to assist the Braves win on Opening Day for the primary time since 2018. Only one Atlanta starter (Julio Teheran in 2015) has been credited with an Opening Day win up to now 11 seasons.
2022 OD starter: Fried

Patrick Corbin (WSH, third): Corbin will make his second straight Opening Day begin for the Nationals after Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg mixed to start out the earlier 10 openers. Corbin, who additionally began on Opening Day for the D-backs in 2018, is 1-1 with a 3.72 ERA in his two season-opening begins.
2022 OD starter: Corbin

Orioles at Red Sox, 2:10 p.m.

Kyle Gibson (BAL, 2nd): Gibson’s lone prior Opening Day begin got here in 2021 with the Rangers, and it didn’t go effectively. In reality, it’s one in all solely two cases within the Live Ball Era (since 1920) of an Opening Day starter permitting at the least 5 earned runs whereas recording no multiple out, becoming a member of Toronto’s Mark Bomback in 1982. Despite that, Gibson bounced again to make his solely profession All-Star workforce.
2022 OD starter: John Means

Corey Kluber (BOS, sixth): Kluber, who signed a one-year cope with the Red Sox within the offseason, would be the first pitcher aside from Nathan Eovaldi to start out for Boston on Opening Day since 2019. The two-time Cy Young Award winner isn’t any stranger to taking the ball in his workforce’s first recreation — he made 5 straight Opening Day begins for Cleveland from 2015-19, although he went 0-4 with a 4.01 ERA in these video games.
2022 OD starter: Eovaldi

Brewers at Cubs, 2:20 p.m.

Corbin Burnes (MIL, 2nd): The 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner will face the Cubs on Opening Day for the second straight season, hoping to enhance on his five-inning, three-run efficiency from 2022. Following six straight seasons of various Brewers beginning on Opening Day, both Brandon Woodruff (2020-21) or Burnes has gotten the nod in every of the previous 4.
2022 OD starter: Burnes

Marcus Stroman (CHC, third): Stroman will make his third profession Opening Day begin however his first in a Cubs uniform. In two earlier alternatives with the Blue Jays in 2016 and ‘19, Stroman went 1-0 and tossed 15 innings with a 1.80 ERA. Kyle Hendricks had began the earlier three Opening Day video games for the Cubs.
2022 OD starter: Hendricks

Tigers at Rays, 3:10 p.m.

Eduardo Rodriguez (DET, 2nd): Rodriguez was the Tigers’ Opening Day starter in 2022, his first season with the workforce. He’ll reprise that function this season, changing into the fourth consecutive Tigers pitcher to make back-to-back Opening Day begins. Justin Verlander pitched the opener for Detroit in 2016-17, Jordan Zimmermann did the identical in ‘18-19, and Matthew Boyd began on Opening Day in 2020-21.
2022 OD starter: Rodriguez

Shane McClanahan (TB, 2nd): McClanahan took the ball on Opening Day final season for the Rays, shutting out the Orioles for 4 1/3 innings en path to an All-Star season. He will get the nod once more in 2023, breaking a string of 5 straight Opening Day begins by totally different pitchers — McClanahan, Tyler Glasnow, Charlie Morton, Blake Snell and Chris Archer, who was the newest Opening Day starter to repeat the task (2015-18).
2022 OD starter: McClanahan

Phillies at Rangers, 4:05 p.m.

Aaron Nola (PHI, sixth): Nola will make his sixth consecutive Opening Day begin, the longest energetic streak amongst MLB pitchers. Only two Phillies pitchers have began extra consecutive Opening Day video games in franchise historical past: Robin Roberts made 12 straight begins from 1950-61, whereas Steve Carlton made 10 straight from 1977-86. Nola owns a profession 3.68 ERA in his 5 Opening Day outings.
2022 OD starter: Nola

Jacob deGrom (TEX, 4th): deGrom, the Mets’ longtime ace, will make his fourth profession Opening Day begin and first in a Rangers uniform. deGrom has completely dominated his earlier three Opening Day begins with no runs allowed and 25 strikeouts in 17 innings. deGrom would be the seventh pitcher in as many seasons to start out for the Rangers on Opening Day, whereas Kevin Millwood (2006-09) stays the newest to take the ball in Texas’ first recreation a number of years in a row.
2022 OD starter: Jon Gray

Blue Jays at Cardinals, 4:10 p.m.

Alek Manoah (TOR, 1st): José Berríos drew the Opening Day begin for the Blue Jays in 2022, however Manoah will get the ball for Toronto this yr, at Busch Stadium. Manoah’s sophomore season was a superb one, that includes a 2.24 ERA, an All-Star choice and a third-place end in AL Cy Young Award balloting. He is the tenth totally different Opening Day starter for Toronto since 2010.
2022 OD starter: Berríos

Miles Mikolas (STL, 2nd): With Adam Wainwright occurring the injured record as a consequence of a groin pressure, Mikolas will get the ball for his second profession Opening Day begin. For the twenty fourth straight season, the Cards’ Opening Day starter is right-handed; Donovan Osborne in 1999 was the newest southpaw to start out for St. Louis in a season opener.
2022 OD starter: Wainwright

Mets at Marlins, 4:10 p.m.

Max Scherzer (NYM, seventh): Scherzer will make his first Opening Day begin for a workforce aside from the Nationals. He took the ball for the Nats in six of seven openers between 2015-21, pitching to a 2.79 ERA. The Mets have gained their first recreation in 5 of the previous six seasons, and their all-time .656 successful share on Opening Day is the very best within the Majors.
2022 OD starter: Tylor Megill

Sandy Alcantara (MIA, 4th): Alcantara will open the Marlins’ season for the fourth consecutive yr, surpassing Josh Johnson and Josh Beckett for essentially the most Opening Day begins in membership historical past. The right-hander is coming off a dominant 2022 season, successful his first NL Cy Young Award, hanging out 207 batters in 228 2/3 innings and pitching an MLB-high six full video games.
2022 OD starter: Alcantara

Rockies at Padres, 4:10 p.m.

Germán Márquez (COL, third): Márquez began for the Rockies on Opening Day in 2020 and ‘21 before Kyle Freeland did so last season. Márquez’s third Opening Day begin, which comes 30 years after the workforce’s inaugural season, would be the most in Rockies historical past; 9 different pitchers have began two openers every for Colorado.
2022 OD starter: Freeland

Blake Snell (SD, 2nd): Snell’s solely different Opening Day task was for the Rays in 2019, coming off his AL Cy Young Award season. With Yu Darvish having began San Diego’s previous two openers, Snell turns into the tenth pitcher to take the ball for the workforce’s first recreation over the previous 11 seasons.
2022 OD starter: Darvish

Twins at Royals, 4:10 p.m.

Pablo López (MIN, 1st): Acquired from the Marlins for Luis Arraez over the offseason, López turns into the fourth totally different pitcher to start out for Minnesota on Opening Day since 2020. Since Brad Radke set a Twins membership report with seven straight Opening Day begins from 1999-2005, no Minnesota pitcher has taken the ball to start the season greater than two consecutive years.
2022 OD starter: Joe Ryan

Zack Greinke (KC, seventh): Greinke, who re-signed with the Royals within the offseason, will return as Ok.C.’s Opening Day starter. Starting his seventh season opener — three for the Royals, three for the D-backs and one for the Astros — Greinke is one in all three Opening Day starters from the 2010 season or earlier who stay energetic (Justin Verlander, Wainwright).
2022 OD starter: Greinke

Pirates at Reds, 4:10 p.m.

Mitch Keller (PIT, 1st): Keller is ready to develop into the eighth totally different Opening Day beginning pitcher for the Pirates up to now eight years. A former extremely touted prospect now getting into his fifth MLB season, Keller appeared to show a nook within the second half of 2022, posting a 2.71 ERA over his ultimate 15 begins.
2022 OD starter: JT Brubaker

Hunter Greene (CIN, 1st): Just beneath a yr after he made his extremely anticipated MLB debut for Cincinnati, Greene will deliver his triple-digit fastball, with which he made historical past in 2022, to the mound to open the season for the Reds. The 23-year-old can be Cincinnati’s youngest Opening Day starter since a 22-year-old Frank Pastore shut out the Braves in 1980.
2022 OD starter: Tyler Mahle

White Sox at Astros, 7:08 p.m.

Dylan Cease (CWS, 1st): Cease will supplant Lucas Giolito, who made the prior three Opening Day begins for the South Siders. Cease struck out 227 hitters in 184 innings final season, ending second to Verlander for the AL Cy Young Award. Cease would be the seventh totally different Opening Day starter for the White Sox since 2015.
2022 OD starter: Giolito

Framber Valdez (HOU, 2nd): Last yr, Valdez drew his first Opening Day task, and now he’s again for extra, coming off a World Series-clinching victory in Game 6 of the Fall Classic towards the Phillies. Valdez outdueled Shohei Ohtani within the opener a yr in the past, tossing 6 2/3 scoreless innings towards the Angels to assist the Astros tie the all-time report with their tenth consecutive Opening Day win.
2022 OD starter: Valdez

Angels at A’s, 10:07 p.m.

Shohei Ohtani (LAA, 2nd): For the second straight yr, Opening Day is Shohei Day for the Angels. Ohtani would be the first Angels pitcher to start out consecutive Opening Days since Jered Weaver began six straight from 2010-15.
2022 OD starter: Ohtani

Kyle Muller (OAK, 1st): Muller, who was acquired from the Braves as a part of the Sean Murphy commerce, can be making solely his thirteenth Major League look and twelfth begin when he takes the mound towards the Angels. Muller is ready to be the lone rookie to make an Opening Day begin this season.
2022 OD starter: Frankie Montas

D-backs at Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Zac Gallen (ARI, 1st): Gallen, who completed fifth in NL Cy Young Award voting final season, will develop into the primary Arizona pitcher not named Bumgarner to start out on Opening Day since Greinke in 2019. Coincidentally, that was the final time earlier than 2023 that the D-backs confronted any workforce apart from the Padres on Opening Day — and it was additionally a highway recreation towards the Dodgers, which Arizona misplaced, 12-5.
2022 OD starter: Bumgarner

Julio Urías (LAD, 1st): Urías, the reigning NL ERA champion, will develop into the Dodgers’ fifth Opening Day starter in as a few years, following Walker Buehler (2022), Clayton Kershaw (‘21), Dustin May (‘20) and Hyun Jin Ryu (‘19). This will be the first time the Dodgers had such a streak since a span that ended with Kershaw’s first Opening Day Start in 2011, as he adopted Vicente Padilla (‘10), Hiroki Kuroda (‘09), Brad Penny (‘08) and Derek Lowe (‘07).
2022 OD starter: Buehler

Guardians at Mariners, 10:10 p.m.

Shane Bieber (CLE, 4th): This will not simply be Bieber’s fourth profession Opening Day begin, but additionally his fourth in a row. That is only one shy of tying the longest streak of Opening Day begins by a pitcher in Cleveland historical past, held by Kluber (2015-19) and Stan Coveleski (1917-21). Bieber’s 14 strikeouts within the 2020 opener towards the Royals is tied for the second most in historical past.
2022 OD starter: Bieber

Luis Castillo (SEA, third): Acquired midseason from the Reds in 2022, Castillo will make his third profession Opening Day begin and his first for Seattle. Félix Hernández began a club-record 11 Opening Day video games for the Mariners, together with 10 straight from 2009-18, and posted a 1.53 ERA in season openers.
2022 OD starter: Robbie Ray