{"id":449031,"date":"2026-02-02T11:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449031\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:23:11","slug":"predicting-every-mlb-teams-2026-opening-day-starting-rotation-version-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/449031\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting Every MLB Team&#8217;s 2026 Opening Day Starting Rotation, Version 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Projected Starting Rotation<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">1. LHP Yusei Kikuchi<br \/>2. RHP Jos\u00e9 Soriano<br \/>3. RHP Grayson Rodriguez<br \/>4. LHP Reid Detmers<br \/>5. RHP Alek Manoah<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The X-Factor: An ace on the rise as recently as the 2022 season, Alek Manoah has not made an appearance in the majors since May 29, 2024. With Tommy John surgery now in the rearview, he will look to get his career back on track with a one-year, $1.95 million deal. If he pitches well, he has one year of arbitration control remaining, and would give the rotation a major boost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Other Internal Candidates:\u00a0RHP Chase Silseth, LHP Sam Aldegheri, RHP Caden Dana, RHP Jack Kochanowicz, LHP Mitch Farris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Projected Starting Rotation 1. LHP Yusei Kikuchi2. RHP Jos\u00e9 Soriano3. RHP Grayson Rodriguez4. LHP Reid Detmers5. RHP Alek&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-449031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}