The opener officially came to San Francisco last year, but the implementation was short-lived.
Nick Vincent got shelled in one start, and the Giants didn’t use the strategy again, but that doesn’t mean they’re done with it.
Whether it’s an opener, piggybacking starters, or some new model the game hasn’t seen yet, you can bet the Giants are discussing creative ways to use their young pitching staff in 2020.
One year after he made waves at the Winter Meetings by mentioning the positives of an opener, Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi brought up another possibility when asked about MLB adding a 26th player to rosters and enforcing a three-batter minimum.