Projected Opening Day starter Logan Webb will get the ball in Giants’ spring opener, too; 19 games in 20 days to start season a ‘big deal,’ Kapler says.
Webb, who began a throwing program at the beginning of February, said earlier this week that he was only one or two bullpens away from being game ready. San Francisco’s starters are “all at different stages,” Kapler said, but others have already tossed multiple innings. Alex Cobb and Alex Webb both faced live hitters Wednesday for two innings during a simulated game.
Although it is a forgone conclusion that Webb will get the nod on Opening Day, Kapler declined make that declaration Thursday as he announced Webb as the starter in for their Cactus League opener. After not making the team out of camp last spring, Webb finished the regular season as one of the National League’s best starter, going 10-0 with a 2.40 ERA over his final 20 starts.
With six games to make up to get to 162 in a condensed time frame, every major league team knew it was going to face challenges. For the Giants, that comes at the start of the season, with 19 games in 20 days, and at the end, when they were robbed of closing the year at home with back-to-back series against the Rockies and D-backs, the projected bottom two teams in the division; instead, they travel to San Diego to make up the three games they were supposed to start the season with.
“It’s a big deal. It’s going to be incredibly challenging,” Kapler said. “Every club around the league right now is looking around like, wow, we have some major challenges. We’re no exception to that. … I think we’re going to be up for the challenge. … We also start at home. As much as it is going to be challenging to deal with that first road trip, we also get to have a few series at home first.”
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