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Opening Day:
Opening Day is here at last.
Ever since the Dodgers’ Julio Urías put the finishing touch on the 2020 World Series last Oct. 27, we’ve been counting down to this day. Five months later, MLB is ready to go, with the traditional 162-game marathon beginning in festive fashion on Thursday.
With the Orioles-Red Sox game in Boston postponed by rain until Friday and the Mets-Nationals game postponed for at least two days because of ongoing contact tracing involving members of the Nationals organization, 26 teams are scheduled to be in action, with a jam-packed schedule that gets underway at 1:05 p.m. ET and concludes with three West Coast games starting just after 10 p.m.
So strap in, hydrate and get ready for a full day of baseball with this guide to all 13 matchups, listed in order of start time (all times ET)
| AL | W | L | GB | SRS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East | ||||
| TBR | 1 | 0 | — | |
| TOR | 1 | 0 | — | |
| BAL | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | |
| BOS | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | |
| NYY | 0 | 1 | 1.0 | |
| Central | ||||
| DET | 1 | 0 | — | |
| KCR | 1 | 0 | — | |
| CHW | 0 | 1 | 1.0 | |
| CLE | 0 | 1 | 1.0 | |
| MIN | 0 | 1 | 1.0 | |
| West | ||||
| HOU | 1 | 0 | — | |
| LAA | 1 | 0 | — | |
| SEA | 1 | 0 | — | |
| OAK | 0 | 1 | 1.0 | |
| TEX | 0 | 1 | 1.0 |
Rule Changes:
Roster rules include: By noon ET on the first date of the revised 2020 regular season, each Club must submit to MLB an Opening Day Active Roster with a maximum of 30 players, and a minimum of 25. The maximum Active Roster limit shall be reduced from 30 to 28 on the 15th day of the regular season.
Rumors:
- Blue Jays have checked on veteran left-hander Mike MontgomerySportsnet “The Toronto Blue Jays have recently checked on veteran left-hander Mike Montgomery, according to Sportsnet’s Ben Nicholson-Smith. The Blue Jays’ level of interest in Montgomery is unclear at this point, per Nicholson-Smith, and the process of checking in on…” April 02
- 2021 MLB Draft will be 20 rounds longThe Score “The 2021 Major League Baseball Draft will be 20 rounds, according to J.J. Cooper of Baseball America. The league has informed all 30 teams of the plan. MLB’s agreement with the players’ association allowed the league to shrink the 2021 draft to 20 rounds without…” April 02
Shoes:
