Morning Rundown: Pirates finalize roster, begin season against the Marlins
Opening day 2025 sees the Pirates face the Marlins
The Pittsburgh Pirates finalized their opening day roster for the 2025 season, which begins today. They will face the Miami Marlins in a four-game series this weekend on the road before facing the Tampa Bay Rays.
We get quite the opening day pitching matchup as Paul Skenes will face Sandy Alcantara at 4:10 pm ET. Skenes was the NL Rookie of the Year, a starter in the All-Star game, and a finalist for the Cy Young.
Alcantara is a previous Cy Young award winner who missed the 2024 season due to Tommy John surgery.
The rest of the opening series rotation was set up, as Mitch Keller (Friday), Bailey Falter (Saturday), and Andrew Heaney (Sunday) will follow Skenes.
The Pirates have set their initial 26-man roster for opening day on Wednesday:
Pitchers: Paul Skenes, Mitch Keller, Bailey Falter, Andrew Heaney, Carmen Mlodzinski, David Bednar, Colin Holderman, Dennis Santana, Justin Lawrence, Ryan Borucki, Caleb Ferguson, Tim Mayza, Joey Wentz
Catchers: Joey Bart, Endy Rodriguez
Infielders: Adam Frazier, Nick Gonzales, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Jared Triolo, Ke’Bryan Hayes
Outfielders: Andrew McCutchen, Bryan Reynolds, Oneil Cruz, Jack Suwinski, Ji Hwan Bae, Tommy Pham
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Anybody notice Ethan’s payroll data being featured at DKPS? I guess Dejan had to acknowledge Ethan is The Man.
If this doesn't give you confidence, I don't know what will (from Mackey's column in the PG):
“I feel urgency all the time,” Cherington said. “I don’t feel it any more today than I did yesterday or tomorrow or five years ago. There should be urgency all the time.
“We work to apply that urgency to our work every day. Let’s be urgent about getting better every day.”
To paraphrase a favorite movie, I do not think it means what he thinks it means.