The Houston Astros (10-10-3) travel to Jupiter to take on the St. Louis Cardinals (12-9-2) in Grapefruit League play.

RHP J.P. France will make his fifth appearance, including his first start of the Grapefruit League this season. RHP Kyle Leahy will be on the mound for the Cardinals facing the Astros for the third time this Spring.

TODAY’S STARTER: RHP J.P. France is set to make his fifth appearance, including his first start of the Grapefruit League this season. He last pitched on March 13 at STL, where he allowed one hit and one walk with five strikeouts in 3.0 scoreless innings.

He missed a majority of the 2025 season while recovering from right shoulder surgery, making only two appearances with the Astros in 2025.

TODAY’S POTENTIAL RELIEVERS: RHP AJ Blubaugh, LHP Steven Okert and RHP Kai-Wei Teng.

TODAY’S ROSTER MOVE: The Astros have reassigned C Collin Price to minor league camp.

Game Info

Game Date/Time: Wednesday, March 18, 12:05 p.m. CST

Location: Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium – Jupiter, FL

TV: none

Streaming: MLB.com (Cardinals feed, subscription required)

Radio: KBME 790 AM/94.5 FM HD-2

The Dodgers on Wednesday optioned pitcher Kyle Hurt to Triple-A Oklahoma City, getting closer to finalizing the opening day roster.

After Tuesday night’s win over the Royals in Surprise, manager Dave Roberts was asked by Kirsten Watson on SportsNet LA if, this late into camp, the team has seen what they needed to see to finalize the opening day roster.

“We have,” Roberts said. “We’re going to have some good conversations, some hard conversations over the next couple of days.”

Hurt had Tommy John surgery on July 30, 2024 and spent all of 2025 on the injured list. But unlike some of his returning-from-surgery cohorts in camp, the right-hander did pitch on rehab in Triple-A for the final month of the regular season, and was used during scrimmages during the postseason throughout October.

In seven appearances this spring, Hurt allowed three runs on six hits in 7 1/3 innings for a 3.68 ERA with two walks and 12 strikeouts, the latter representing a 40-percent strikeout rate.

After missing most of the last two seasons with injuries — he only pitched in .. games in 2024 — Hurt is back as a potential bullpen piece this season. Given that the Dodgers have used 39, 40, and 40 pitchers over the previous three seasons, if Hurt stays healthy this year he should get plenty of opportunities to contribute in Los Angeles.

Hurt getting options leaves only a few pitching roster decisions to be made to finalize the opening day roster. Blake Snell, Gavin Stone, Brusdar Graterol, Brock Stewart, and Bobby Miller all won’t be ready for opening day. That leaves only 15 available pitchers on the 40-man roster who haven’t already been optioned, plus two non-roster invitees in left-hander Antoine Kelly and right-hander Chris Campos.

In other words, only four more cuts to go to get down to 13 active pitchers for opening day.

Dodgers prospects play White Sox prospects on Saturday afternoon at Camelback Ranch, and on Wednesday all teams finalized their rosters for these spring breakout games.

This game on Saturday will be in the big league stadium at Camelback Ranch, and was originally slated for 3:30 p.m., after the Dodgers play the A’s. But due to excessive in and around Phoenix, everything was moved up one hour. The Dodgers Cactus League game will start at 11:05 a.m., with the prospects game coming at 2:30 p.m.

MLB Network will televise the Dodgers-White Sox spring breakout game, which will be streamed for free on the MLB app.

The Dodgers trimmed down from their preliminary list of 40 potential players for the spring breakout game to 27 players expected active on Saturday.

As expected, the slew of outfield prospects will be there, including all four top-100 prospects Josue De Paula, Zyhir Hope, Eduardo Quintero, and Mike Sirota, plus the slightly-older Zach Ehrhard and James Tibbs III who impressed in big league camp, plus 100-steal man Kendall George.

On the pitching side, Christian Zazueta and Adam Serwinoski stand out. Also active on Saturday are three of the Dodgers’ first four draft picks from 2025 — pitcher Zach Root, his Arkansas teammate outfielder Charles Davalan, and outfielder Landyn Vidourek.

Dodgers spring breakout roster

• Left-handed pitchers (4): Maddux Bruns, Cody Morse, Zach Root, Adam Serwinowski
• Right-handed pitchers (4): Cam DayPayton Martin, Marlon Nieves, Christian Zazueta
• Catchers (2): Francisco Espinoza, Victor Rodrigues
• Infielders (7): Moises Bolivar, Chase Harlan, Elijah Hainline, Kellon Lindsey, Emil Morales, Joendry Vargas, Logan Wagner
• Outfielders (10): Charles Davalan, Josue De Paula, Zach Ehrhard, Kendall George, Zyhir Hope, Eduardo Quintero, Mike Sirota, James Tibbs III, Brendan Tunink, Landyn Vidourek

Watching 42 on Friday’s movie night, I had forgotten that among shots of MLB players wearing 42 during the pre-credits montage, there is one at Target Field. That got me thinking about the Twins who have worn #42 outside of April 15 every year, and checking Baseball Reference, there have been just six. (Two of them were Senators, but they still count.)

They are:

Al Kozar
2B, 1950
Kozar spent all of 1948 and 1949 with the Senators, wearing #2 the first season and #1 the second. For the start of the 1950 season, he wore #42, an unusual number change for a player — players usually move to a lower number. However, he only wore #42 for 20 games before being traded to the White Sox, where he played 10 more games before his MLB career ended.

Cass Michaels
2B, 1950-1
Michaels came over to Washington in the Kozar trade and immediately claimed the vacated number. He wore #42 for the rest of 1950 and part of 1951 before switching to #7 (I could not find any further specifics as to when he switched), but in that new number, his Senators career ended the same way as his predecessor’s: a trade, sent to the Browns in May 1952.

Jim Manning
RP, 1962
The first Twin on the list, Manning wore #42 during his entire career: seven innings across five games at the start of the 1962 season.

Jack O’Connor
SP, 1982
O’Connor’s case is interesting. He wore #33 for most of his four seasons (well, three seasons and two games) in Minnesota, but he wore #42 for at least part of 1982, his only season as a primary starter. He ended that season with a 4.29 ERA, the lowest ERA of any full season in his career, walking 57 and striking out 56 across 126 innings.

Butch Huskey
OF, 2000
When MLB retired #42 across the league on April 15, 1997, the dozen or so players still wearing that number were allowed to keep it for the rest of their careers, including if they changed teams. Huskey was a Met in 1997, and three years and three teams later, he found himself wearing his usual number in Minnesota. He stayed with the team until mid-July, playing 64 games as a Twin, until the team traded him to Colorado, where he finished his career wearing #35.

Mike Jackson
RP, 2002
Another post-’97 holdover, Jackson had been with Cleveland at the time of the number’s retirement, and he pitched for that club for three seasons. After missing the 2000 season with injury and spending 2001 in Houston, he signed with the Twins as a free agent and spent 2002 pitching in the Metrodome. Jackson had a solid season, appearing in 58 games to the tune of a 3.27 ERA, but failed to make the bigs with Arizona the next season before finishing his career with the White Sox (wearing #38) in 2004.

And that is the entire list… until April 15 comes around again.

With the 2025 Texas Rangers season having come to an end, we shall be, over the course of the offseason, taking a look at every player who appeared in a major league game for the Texas Rangers in 2025.

Today we are looking at infielder Ezequiel Duran.

Once upon a time, Ezequiel Duran was considered a bat-first infield prospect.

Its been a minute, hasn’t it?

Hell, once upon a time, Ezequiel Duran was a bat-first major leaguer. If we cast ourselves back to 2023 — the greatest season in the history of the Texas Rangers, I think we can all agree — Ezequiel Duran spent the first half of the season contributing significantly to an offense that was wrecking fools left and right. He was playing shortstop when Corey Seager was out, he was playing left field when Corey Seager was in, he was hitting wherever he was. One of the major discussion points leading up to the 2023 trade deadline was, should the Rangers be willing to part with Duran in a deadline deal? The consensus was no, he was too good, too young, too important a part of the Rangers lineup.

At the end of June, 2023, Ezequiel Duran was slashing .320/.361/.557. It looked like, even if Glenn Otto, Trevor Hauver and Josh Smith did nothing, Ezequiel Duran was going to turn the Joey Gallo trade into a steal.

Over the final three months of the season, Duran slashed .225/.382/.310.

In 2024, he slashed .246/.288/.321 in 92 games.

In 2025, he slashed .224/.266/.293 in 90 games.

Things are going in the wrong direction.

In 2025, Duran put up a 572 OPS against righthanders and a 541 OPS against lefties. He put up a 532 OPS at home and a 589 OPS on the road.

Fun fact — in 103 plate appearances on the road in 2025, Duran had 3 RBIs. 3!

If one wants to give him the benefit of the doubt, one can chalk up some of his struggles to irregular playing time. He was optioned in late April, with the Rangers wanting him to get more regular at bats to try to get back into a groove. In 14 games for Round Rock, he slashed .345/.390/.673. He had four homers for the Express in those 14 games, which is four more home runs than he had for the Rangers in 2025.

When things went pear shaped in August and Duran was pressed into more regular duty, he hit better, slashing .278/.303/.348 in 119 plate appearances and 43 games from August 4 until the end of the season. That’s not great, but it is better than the .156/.222/.222 he was rocking prior to that point. Marcus Semien had a .230/.305/.364 slash line for the 2025 season, as a point of comparison.

Duran has spent parts of four seasons in the majors, beginning in 2022. His xwOBA by year is .257, .320, .258 and .247. That 2023 season seems like a bit of an outlier.

Looking at 2022-25, Duran’s walk rates and K rates are pretty consistent from year to year. He strikes out a lot (25.1% for his career, roughly bottom quartile) and doesn’t walk at all (4.9%, roughly bottom 10%). His K rate was actually highest in 2023, at 27.3%, with his 2025 mark being 25.1%. His walk rate in 2023 was 5.2%, and dropped to a career-low 3.7% in 2025, though that delta is just a matter of differing degrees of bad.

As one would expect, Duran swings a lot, both in the strike zone and outside of the strike zone. His rate of swinging at pitches in the zone has ranged from 70.6% to 74.0%, compared to a major league average of 67.0%. His chase rate has ranged from 37.7% to 39.3%, compared to a major league average of 28.4%.

As we have talked about with guys like Adolis Garcia and Josh Jung, you can have success with such a profile if you do a good job hitting the ball hard and in the air a lot, particularly on the pull side. And that’s what Ezequiel Duran did in 2023 — he hit the ball in the air 60% of the time, with a 29.4% line drive rate. Duran’s hard hit rate and average exit velocity were both in the 65th percentile that year, per Statcast.

Every other year, his hard hit rate and average exit velocity have been well below average, with his hard hit rate being at around the 10th percentile in 2025. In 2025, he was hitting fewer ground balls than in 2022 and 2024, but the result was many more pop ups — right about 1 out of every 6 balls in play from Duran in 2025 resulted in a pop up. His 16.4% pop up rate was almost as high as his 17.8% fly ball rate, which is disastrous. His bat speed also dropped a fair amount in 2025, from right around top third the previous two seasons to below 50%, perhaps in an effort to try to make more contact.

Ezequiel Duran, with his current profile, is an okay bench piece, a functional utility guy who can play all over the infield as well as handling the outfield corners. He’s also fast, generally being in the top 10% or so in sprint speed during his career, per Statcast, and was 11 for 13 stealing bases in 2025.

If he can somehow recapture his ability to damage when he makes contact like he did in 2023 — he had a .415 xwOBA on contact that year, compared to .300 to .314 his other three seasons, and compared to a .369 MLB average — he could be an every day player. Duran has an option remaining, and maybe the best thing for his career, long-term, would be to go to AAA and spend a few months playing every day and getting his offensive rhythm back.

But needs must, and the Rangers need a utility infielder, and that will probably be Ezequiel Duran in the 2026 season. Given the injury history of the left side of the Rangers infield, Duran will likely get some opportunities for regular at bats in 2026 at some point. Whether he takes advantage of them or not will like determine whether he sticks around for a while, or whether he’s a non-tender candidate this winter.

Previously:

Gerson Garabito

Tyler Mahle

Kyle Higashioka

Adolis Garcia

Luis Curvelo

Alejandro Osuna

Blaine Crim

Jake Burger

Jacob Webb

Nick Ahmed

Jon Gray

Carl Edwards Jr.

Josh Jung

Leody Taveras

Dustin Harris

Marc Church

Luke Jackson

Danny Coulombe

Wyatt Langford

Dylan Moore

Michael Helman

Evan Carter

Cole Winn

Rowdy Tellez

Dane Dunning

Marcus Semien

Billy McKinney

Jose Corniell

Jonah Heim

Cody Freeman

Sam Haggerty

Jacob deGrom

Merrill Kelly

Caleb Boushley

Justin Foscue

Nathan Eovaldi

Chris Martin

Patrick Corbin

Joc Pederson

Phil Maton

Corey Seager

Tucker Barnhart

Jack Leiter

The Good Phight will be previewing the 2026 season by going over each position on the field. We’ll talk about the players that will occupy them, the players behind them, their strengths and weaknesses and give a few takes about how we think the season will shake out.

It ain’t easy playing the outfield at Citizens Bank Park. No, it’s not because of the high expectations of Phillies fans, or flying batteries, or any of those other clichés. It’s just statistically a rough place to field the ball. That being said, the vagaries of the CBP expanse can’t fully explain why the Phillies have struggled to get production from their outfield recently. Whatever explains the difficulties in fielding the ball there, whether it be wind or something else, it probably can’t explain why the Phillies’ outfielders haven’t hit the ball too well in the past few seasons. But, as Bob Dylan once sang, quite possibly referring to offseason roster changes (he is a baseball fan), the times, they are a-changing. The Phillies will debut a new-look outfield on Opening Day. Will the new unit fare better than their predecessors?

The starters: Brandon Marsh, Justin Crawford, Adolis García

At a wedding, they say that a bride ought to wear something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. Opening Day isn’t quite a wedding, but the Phillies outfield will follow that advice anyway. For something old, we have Brandon Marsh (and by old, we refer solely to the fact that that he’s been in Philly for longer than any of his fellow outfield patrolmen). Marsh was solid at the plate in 2025, posting a 116 wRC+, though his continued struggles against same-handed pitching once again required the Phillies to platoon him. But he was unimpressive with his glove, grading out as neutral by Fielding Run Value, and negative by Defensive Runs Saved; his -6 in the latter put him behind every Phillie save Nick Castellanos. He’s graded out as a positive fielder before, and he’ll look to do so again in 2026. He’ll do so largely in left, thanks to…

Something new: Justin Crawford. As a prospect he was praised for his speed and contact ability, but dogged by questions about his extreme tendencies to hit the ball into the ground. But he’s impressed in the minors (.334/.411/.452 with the IronPigs), and he’ll get his chance to do the same with the Phillies as their center fielder.

For something borrowed, we have Adolis García, who the Phillies grabbed from Texas via free agency. García boasts a mighty arm and a mighty bat, though only the former was fully on display in 2025. He hit the ball hard last season, as he always does, but failed to turn it into much production due to poor contact and swing decisions. When he fully taps into his potential, he’s capable of going on an absolute tear; ask the Rays, Orioles, Astros, or Diamondbacks about his activities in October of 2023. Then again, the same could’ve been said about his Phillies predecessor in right, who showed a similar capacity to set the world on fire in the postseason while enduring long droughts in effectiveness during the regular season. The Phillies are hoping that the comparison will prove less than apt. He’ll be playing in right.

As for something blue, any of the above fit when they’re wearing the City Connects.

The backups: Otto Kemp, Dylan Moore

Otto Kemp got most of his playing time in the infield last season, but he had 11 games in left, helping Marsh platoon. He’ll pull double duty again this season. He was only so-so with the bat in 2025, posting a wRC+ of 95. His arm strength is nothing to write home about, but he is fast, and a right-handed bat in the outfield is much appreciated. Speaking of right-handed bats, Dylan Moore offers the Phillies another, if they can find a spot on the roster for him. Like his fellow newcomer García, Moore comes to Philadelphia via Arlington, though he began the season with Seattle. Between the two teams, he posted a .201/.267/.374 slash line across 106 games. He’s not a great batter, but he offers an impressive history as a fielder having won the utility fielder’s Gold Glove for the AL in 2024. Kemp and Moore should be considered the main backups, though there is another player who qualifies: Edmundo Sosa doesn’t play the outfield often (only three appearances last year, and two of those were the result of mid-game defensive tinkering), but he is an option as well.

The Depth: Gabriel Rincones Jr. Pedro León, Bryan De La Cruz, Johan Rojas

Gabriel Rincones Jr. had a solid season at AAA last year, batting .240/.370/.43o. At 25, he’s not as young as Crawford, but he represents a potential youth infusion. Pedro León got a cup of coffee with Houston in 2024, and will be hoping to get another in Philadelphia. Bryan De La Cruz offers solid MLB experience, having played parts of five seasons with Miami, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta. The past three of those seasons saw him post negative bWAR, but having the option to bring in someone who’s spent plenty of time in the bigs before is a plus. As for Rojas, his PED suspension and struggles with the bat have him on the outside looking in; he may end up playing in a Phillies uniform again, but it seems unlikely that he will be a major part of the picture.

Strengths: Experience plus youth

García boasts two All-Star campaigns and a World Series title. Marsh hasn’t filled up his trophy case to the same degree, but he’s played enough, and had enough postseason experience, to count as a grizzled vet. Combine that experience with Crawford’s upside, and you can see a good picture coming together. With Crawford boasting plenty of promise, and with plenty of opportunity to learn from the experienced outfielders flanking him, he could quickly become a real contributor.

Weaknesses: Uncertainty

At this point, we know what we’ll get from Marsh: solid, though unspectacular, performance as part of a platoon. But his fellow starters are significantly less of a sure thing. Crawford looks the part of a contributor, but rookies are hard to predict and project. His path to the majors has been rather smooth, but the jump to the show is a hard one. It’s probably reasonable to expect him to hit some speed bumps, but it’s hard to know when, and how major those bumps will be, and how long it’ll take him to overcome them, or even whether he’ll overcome them at all. That’s not a knock on Crawford; it’s inherent to rookie-hood. García offers some uncertainty of his own: he’ll be looking to show that he can tap into his power potential and be an above-average batter after a pair of underwhelming campaigns. Bounce-backs happen, but after two seasons as a below-average batter by wRC+, García has something to prove.

Hottest take: Crawford wins Rookie of the Year

It’s been a while since a Phillie won RoY. No fresh-faced Phillie has received a vote since Alec Bohm in 2020, and no Phillie has won it since Ryan Howard in 2005. The Senior Circuit’s crop of juniors this year looks to be excellent: JJ Wetherholt is drawing raves as a future Redbird, and Nolan McLean is good enough to be tapped to start the World Baseball Classic final. The broader baseball world regards Justin Crawford as a promising player, but certainly not a favorite to win RoY. But he offers plenty of talent, and if his bat continues to serve him well in the bigs, his blazing speed and tendency to pilfer bases could make him a star, fast. A young, burgeoning star, the son of a star of yesteryear, putting the Phillies over the top and changing the narrative around the team after a few seasons of falling short might be an irresistible narrative for voters.

Realistic take: the outfield improves, but only to middle of the pack status

Last season, the Phillies outfielders ranked 23rd league-wide by fWAR. The teams around them were mostly also-rans (though the eventual champs weren’t much better, ranking 20th with only 0.2 WAR more). The changes made to the outfield aren’t guaranteed to pay off, and it’s easy to imagine a version of the 2026 season that ends with the Phillies’ outfield in the same place, WAR-wise: Crawford struggles to adjust to big-league pitching, García has a season that looks more like his 2024 or 2025 than his 2023, etc. But Crawford is high-upside, and García’s power potential will be fearsome if he can tap into it a bit more. It wouldn’t be reasonable to expect the Phillies outfield to become a top unit in 2026, but improvement to somewhere in the neighborhood of league-average status seems plausible.

The NL Central will never be confused with a juggernaut division. Featuring two teams with owners with self-imposed spending limits, a budget organization that makes up for it with elite scouting and development, and a former giant embracing a rebuild, the Cubs enter 2026 in another stratosphere when it comes to spending in the division, with no other team within $90 million of their projected luxury tax salary.

But the Cubs have hesitated on going all-in with his opportunity, even after the cheaper Brewers outperformed them last season. They made some moves, but it’s unclear if they’ve put themselves in a position to be better in 2026 and get closer to the league-wide goal of knocking off the back-to-back champion Dodgers.

2025 record: 92-70 (2nd, NL Central)
2026 FanGraphs projection: 85-77 (1st, NL Central)

Kyle Tucker, whom the Cubs paid a steep price for last offseason, is out the door after an up-and-down year. While the Cubs were never quite interested in meeting his asking price, they were involved in the free agent market, eventually inking former Astros and Red Sox third baseman Alex Bregman to a huge five-year deal to solidify one of MLB’s best infields along with Nico Hoerner, Dansby Swanson, and Michael Busch.

But aside from Bregman, the biggest free agent signing they had was a two-year, $14.5 million deal for Phil Maton. In fact, much of their offseason, aside from Bregman and the trade for former Marlins’ arm Edward Cabrera, was focused on the bullpen, additionally signing Hunter Harvey, Hoby Milner, and Shelby Miller. As for position players, they signed a few former MLB outfielders to minor league deals, so overall, it was a two-move offseason.

They didn’t necessarily need to do much to prop up one of the majors’ best lineups that doesn’t have many, if any, holes. With Tucker’s departure freeing up a spot in the outfield, the biggest question appears to be what the team will do at DH. Seiya Suzuki isn’t a great defender, but he’ll get more reps in the outfield this year while they move guys around to get bats like Moisés Ballesteros and Matt Shaw in the lineup. They could also fill out their bench with players like non-roster invitees Dylan Carlson, Michael Conforto, or Chas McCormick. Their decision on that end may depend on how much they want Suzuki in the field.

Shota Imanaga’s extremely complicated contract options resulted in a one-year deal, which has him back to once again lead a Cubs rotation with a lot of upside. Cade Horton was spectacular in 2025 and will look to build upon his 2025 NL ROTY runner-up performance, while Matthew Boyd is coming off a resurgent All-Star campaign. Cabrera is the wild card, making a career-high 26 starts in 2025 with the Marlins after injuries hampered him in his first few years in the league. Former Yankee Jameson Taillon figures to start the year as the fifth starter as former all-star Justin Steele recovers from his 2025 Tommy John surgery.

Daniel Palencia came out of nowhere for the Cubs and became their closer during 2025, posting a 2.91 ERA with 22 saves after entering the year with an ERA north of five in 43 career innings. He’ll be set up by a bunch of their reliever acquisitions and a pair of long relievers who can make some spot starts during the year in Javier Assad and Colin Rea.

The NL Central figures to be a two-team race between them and the resourceful Brewers, who are once again trying to moneyball their way to a division title. But after trading Freddy Peralta and continuing to have a payroll under $150 million, is this the year they slow down? The Cubs will be towards the top of the league in runs with their deep lineup, so all eyes will be on how their pitching holds up. They got a lot of quality outings from starters entering their mid-30s and lost two of their best relievers in Brad Keller and Drew Pomeranz. What if the pendulum swings the other way?

Even if those Brewers make it out on top of the NL Central again, the Cubs figure to be in a good position for a Wild Card, but the biggest questions with them might be what happens come playoff time. Craig Counsell was extremely aggressive with his bullpen in the 2025 postseason, and they got absolutely no length from any of their starters. Come October, will they be able to get more length?

In the NL pecking order, the Dodgers and Phillies feel comfortable at 1 and 2. The Cubs want to be No. 3, but to get there, they’ll need good health, better consistency, and a rotation that’s able to get outs in October.

More Pinstripe Alley MLB team season previews can be found here.

Opening Day is a day of tradition. And it is starting to become a tradition that Cole Ragans starts on Opening Day for the Royals.

Ragans was named the starter for the March 27 opener against the Braves in Atlanta, the third consecutive year he has been given the honor.

Ragans was limited to just 13 starts last year, missing two and a half months with a rotator cuff strain. He returned late in the year for three starts and gave up just four runs, striking out 22 of the 48 hitters he faced. Overall heahad a 4.67 ERA with 98 strikeouts in 61.2 innings, the second-highest strikeout rate in baseball for anyone with at last 50 innings.

Ragans has yet to win on Opening Day – he gave up two runs in six innings in a loss to the Twins in 2024 and gave up three runs in five innings in a no-decision to the Guardians last year.

The Royals have not officially named the rest of the starters, but the rotation is expected to include Seth Lugo, Michael Wacha, Kris Bubic, and Noah Cameron. Ryan Bergert was optioned to the minors on Tuesday.

Royals Opening Day starters

Wally Bunker 1969-1970

Dick Drago 1971-1972

Steve Busby 1973, 1975

Paul Splittorff 1974, 1976-1977

Dennis Leonard 1978-1980, 1982

Larry Gura 1981, 1983

Bud Black 1984-1986

Danny Jackson 1987

Bret Saberhagen 1988, 1990-1991

Mark Gubicza 1989

Kevin Appier 1992-1997, 1999

Tim Belcher 1998

Jeff Suppan 2000-2002

Runelvys Hernandez 2003

Brian Anderson 2004

Jose Lima 2005

Scott Elarton 2006

Gil Meche 2007-2009

Zack Greinke 2010, 2022, 2023

Luke Hochevar 2011

Bruce Chen 2012

James Shields 2013-2014

Yordano Ventura 2015

Edinson Volquez 2016

Danny Duffy 2017-2018, 2020

Brad Keller 2019, 2021

Cole Ragans 2024-2026