Giants and Orioles lock starters
Logan Webb will make his fifth straight Opening Day start for the San Francisco Giants — a mark only Juan Marichal matched since the team moved to SF — giving the Giants rotation a clear anchor []. The Baltimore Orioles named Trevor Rogers their 2026 Opening Day starter after a strong spring, cementing co-ace dynamics with Kyle Bradish [].
Logan Webb finished 2025 with NL-leading totals of 207.0 innings and 224 strikeouts, per his MLB player profile mlb.com. Webb allowed one run over 8 2/3 innings across two Team USA starts in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, a performance noted by the Giants when announcing their spring plans mlb.com. San Francisco’s projected Opening Day rotation behind the staff anchor lists Robbie Ray, Tyler Mahle, Adrian Houser and Landen Roupp, with the team specifically flagging durability questions around Mahle and Roupp in camp notes mlb.com. Trevor Rogers posted a 1.81 ERA with a 0.90 WHIP across 109 2/3 innings in 18 starts in 2025 and finished ninth in American League Cy Young voting, according to the Orioles’ season review mlb.com. Baltimore scheduled its Home Opener for March 26 at Camden Yards against Minnesota and noted Rogers (age 28) would draw the assignment, marking the club’s first left-handed Opening Day starter since John Means, per the team announcement mlb.com. Kyle Bradish’s late-2025 return from Tommy John included a six-inning, 10-strikeout outing in August, and the Orioles shifted to a six-man rotation late in the year to manage innings as Bradish reintegrated alongside Rogers mlb.com.
