Opening Day: Teams Announce Starting Pitchers For Season Openers

The 30 starting pitchers for Opening Day next Thursday have all been announced and there are a lot of high-profile matchups, as you would expect to start the season. Here are all the matchups in the 15 games.

We're now just a week away from the start of the 2023 Major League Baseball season, and all 30 teams rolled out their starting pitchers for Opening Day on Thursday. 

There are plenty of great matchups, too, which isn't surprising.

Eight former Cy Young Award winners will take the mound, with the best matchup coming in Miami when 2022 National League winner Sandy Alcantara of the Marlins and Max Scherzer of the New York Mets, who's won three Cy Young awards, will square off. 

The best American League matchup comes in Houston, where the defending World Series champs will roll out left-hander Framber Valdez against right-hander Dylan Cease of the Chicago White Sox.

Here are the starters for the 15 Opening Day games, with last year's stats in parentheses:

American League

• Baltimore Orioles (Kyle Gibson 10-8, 5.05 ERA) at Boston Red Sox (Corey Kluber 10-10, 4.34 ERA), 2:10 p.m. ET. 
• Detroit Tigers (Eduardo Rodriguez 5-5, 4.05 ERA) at Tampa Bay Rays (Shane McClanahan 12-8, 2.54 ERA), 3:10 p.m. ET. 
• Minnesota Twins (Pablo Lopez 10-10 3.75 ERA) at Kansas City Royals (Zach Greinke 4-9, 3.68 ERA), 4:10 p.m. ET. 
• Chicago White Sox (Dylan Cease 14-8, 2.20 ERA) at Houston Astros (Framber Valdez 17-6, 2.82 ERA), 7 p.m. ET. TV: ESPN.
• Los Angeles Angels (Shohei Ohtani 15-9, 2.33 ERA) at Oakland Athletics (Kyle Muller (1-1, 8:03 ERA), 10:07 p.m. ET.  
• Cleveland Guardians (Shane Bieber 13-8, 2.88 ERA) at Seattle Mariners (Luis Castillo 8-6, 2.99 ERA), 10:10 p.m. ET. 

National League

• Atlanta Braves (Max Fried 14-7, 2.48 ERA) at Washington Nationals (Patrick Corbin 6-19, 6.31 ERA), 1:05 p.m. ET. 
• Milwaukee Brewers (Corbin Burnes 12-8, 2.94 ERA) at Chicago Cubs (Marcus Stroman 6-7, 3.50 ERA), 2:20 p.m. ET.
• New York Mets (Max Scherzer 11-5, 2.29 ERA) at Miami Marlins (Sandy Alcantara 14-9, 2.28 ERA) , 4:10 p.m. ET.
• Pittsburgh Pirates (Mitch Keller 5-12, 3.91 ERA) at Cincinnati Reds (Hunter Greene 5-13, 4.44 ERA), 4:10 p.m. ET.
• Colorado Rockies (German Marquez 9-13, 5.00 ERA) at San Diego Padres (Blake Snell 8-10, 3.38 ERA), 4:10 p.m. ET.
• Arizona Diamondbacks (Zac Gallen 12-4, 2.54 ERA) at Los Angeles Dodgers (Julio Urias 17-7, 2.16 ERA), 10:10 p.m. ET. 

Interleague

• San Francisco Giants (Logan Webb 15-9, 2.60 ERA) at New York Yankees (Gerrit Cole 13-8, 3.50 ERA), 1:05 p.m. ET. 
• Philadelphia Phillies (Aaron Nola 11-13, 3.25 ERA) at Texas Rangers (Jacob deGrom 5-4, 3.08 ERA), 4:05 p.m. ET.   
• Toronto Blue Jays (Alek Manoah 16-7, 2.24 ERA) at St. Louis Cardinals (Miles Mikolas 12-13, 3.29), 4:10 p.m. ET 

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