BRADENTON, Fla. -- It's a rotation of an undetermined amount of people being deployed in a not yet revealed amount of ways, but there is one thing we can take for certain about the Pirates’ 2022 rotation: JT Brubaker is taking the ball first.
On Sunday, Derek Shelton announced that Brubaker will be the club’s opening day starter, a distinction that Brubaker called “an awesome honor” not long after receiving the news and sharing it with his family.
If you look solely at the first couple months of last season, then it’s easy to see why Brubaker got the nod.