With the regular season a little over a month away from the beginning, we have been taking a look at the projected starters at each position. After ranking the starting rotations in the American League, let’s take a look at those in the Senior Circuit.
As a subjective list, many of the teams can almost be considered interchangeable as to where they are ranked. Depth charts were taken from Fangraphs.
Nationals - Stephen Strasburg, Max Scherzer, Patrick Corbin (L), Anibal Sanchez, Joe Ross
Strasburg is the reigning World Series MVP, Scherzer has finished in the top-five of Cy Young voting seven straight years (including winning it twice), and Corbin finished 11th in NL Cy Young voting last year (fifth in 2018).
Bird’s-eye view of one of baseball’s best @Max_Scherzer Fun to watch him pitch, even if I am a @Mets fan. #baseballisback #SpringTraining #grapefruitleague pic.twitter.com/rUVi7aFmje
— LaurenceReisman (@LaurenceReisman) February 23, 2020
Mets - Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, Marcus Stroman, Steven Matz (L), Rick Porcello
deGrom has won the last two NL Cy Young Awards, but if Porcello pitches as he did last year (5.52 ERA, 1.39 WHIP), someone like Michael Wacha could take his place in the rotation.
“We had no idea where we were gonna be.”
— Steve Gelbs (@SteveGelbs) February 23, 2020
Steven Matz reflects on his baseball journey with his best friend, Jacob deGrom, and what it’s been like to watch him ascend to the top.
This was really great. pic.twitter.com/R9U5pPRRlS