{"id":246818,"date":"2025-10-28T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246818\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:45:07","slug":"a-way-too-early-look-at-the-guardians-starting-rotation-in-2026-who-gets-the-ball-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246818\/","title":{"rendered":"A way-too-early look at the Guardians\u2019 starting rotation in 2026: Who gets the ball opening day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/guardians\/\" title=\"Navigate to Guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardians<\/a>Updated: Oct. 28, 2025, 1:23 p.m.|Published: Oct. 28, 2025, 12:43 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Cleveland Guardians vs. Detroit Tigers AL wild card game 2, October 1, 2025\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SOHGZWK67JBONE2LRHNMWEPIGY.JPG\"\/>Cleveland Guardians starting pitcher Tanner Bibee reacts after Detroit Tigers left fielder Riley Greene strikes out on a foul tip in the first inning of the AL wild card game 2.Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"D3JQZ4JBKZCWHEEG4XEBJOMCCM\">CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 The 2025 Guardians rotation evolved from a question mark in April to a dominant force by September, when they effectively stopped allowing runs entirely. Now, as the organization looks ahead to 2026, tough decisions loom with more qualified starters than available rotation spots.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GuardiansUpdated: Oct. 28, 2025, 1:23 p.m.|Published: Oct. 28, 2025, 12:43 p.m.Cleveland Guardians starting pitcher Tanner Bibee reacts after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-246818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}