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Friday, March 24, 2023
Opening Day will feature 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, five pitchers—deGrom, Kyle Gibson, Kluber, Pablo López and Kyle Muller—will take the mound on Opening Day in a debut performance with their new clubs.
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1. JJ1986 Posted: March 24, 2023 at 12:58 PM (#6121266)And in that respect, Stroman seems appropriate as the Opening Day starter - a guy who will go out and give you a bunch of quality-ish starts without ever looking really great or really terrible. Perfectly respectable without truly excelling or failing - that's the 2023 Cubs.
That might be a regular goal in the 12-team playoff era. Somewhere around 85 wins is doable for almost anybody and those "no stars but no holes" teams often do better than that. In many ways, that should work in the Cubs' favor over the long term -- at least now while waiting for the kids, there's a potentially hefty reward for the Drive for 75 ... or the Line to 79 ... or Bore and 84. Maybe removes the excuse for the Cubs ever losing 100 again as part of a rebuild.
Career ERA+:
Jack Morris: 105
Eduardo Rodriguez: 109
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