Joe Maddon didn’t waste time in naming an Opening Day starter for 2020. A day after telling reporters he plans on instructing his pitchers not to throw at the Astros this season, the team announced Andrew Heaney will take the hill for their opener in Houston.
Heaney was one of the Angels’ most outspoken players about the Astros’ cheating scandal.
“Somebody in that locker room had to say, ‘This is (expletive) up. We shouldn’t be doing this.'” Heaney said, according to The Athletic’s Fabian Ardaya. “For nobody to stand up and nobody to say we’re cheating other players, that sucks.