Royals Rumblings - News for February 17, 2020
Jeffrey Flanagan writes that the Opening Day pitching assignment is still in the air.
Matheny did suggest that whatever direction he goes with the Opening Day starter, he likely will try to go right-left-right-left or vice versa with his rotation.
“I’ve never been a big fan of having two righties with similar height, similar release points, going back to back,” he said, “because when you talk about guys going third time through the order, you’re going to talk about the sixth time through the order by the time you get to that second game if you go righty-righty.