Dan Brink Peter Brody is a staff writer at Pinstripe Alley, where he first started covering the Yankees in February a glacially slow winter and a spring that flew by, Opening Day is here! The Yankees begin their quest for No.28 after the 2025 season ended in disappointing fashion, getting rolled by the Blue Jays in four games in the Giants meanwhile are hoping to get back to the postseason after missing out on the playoffs with a.500 or worse record in each of the last four 've made it to the playoffs just once since Francisco team president Buster Posey has overseen some major signings and trades already in his short tenure at the helm of the front office, perhaps none more noteworthy than hiring Tony Vitello as manager despite the former Tennessee Volunteers head coach possessing zero professional baseball experience either as a player or Yankees on the other hand were one of the least ambitious teams of the offseason, happy to run it back with last year's squad and making only minor additions in hope of a better 's new ground being broken this Opening Day, with Netflix hosting its firstever MLB is Fried is named the Opening Day starter for the first time with the Yankees after earning the distinction three times with the 32yearold southpaw has made four starts at Oracle Park in his career, pitching to a 2.59 ERA with a 23:8 strikeouttowalk ratio and.209 batting average allowed across 24.1 for him to lean on the cutter against the Giants' rightyheavy lineup, a pitch which went from an afterthought to his mostfrequently used pitch after joining the finished fourth in last year's AL Cy Young race after going 195 in 32 starts, with a 2.8ERA 142 ERA+, 3.07 FIP Will Warren Jersey, and 189 strikeouts in 195.1 Webb has been named the Giants' Opening Day starter for the fifth year in a 's a throwback workhorse in this era of fiveanddive starters, with the most starts 132 https://www.newyorkfanoutlet.com, innings pitched 820, and secondmost fWAR 19.1 of any qualified starter over the last four 's a sinkersweeperchangeup guy and one of the preeminent ground ball and command artists in the game, placing well into the 90th percentile in groundball and walk rates across the last five years, though he did strike out over 200 batters for the first time in his career last 's coming off his thirdstraight topsix NL Cy Young finish having gone 15 in 34 starts, with a 3.22 ERA 124 ERA+, 2.60 FIP, and 224 strikeouts in 207 are both familiar and new faces in Yankees lineup relative to Opening Day Grisham was their most used leadoff hitter and reprises that role after rejoining on the qualifying bats ahead of the Captain, Aaron Judge beginning the quest for his thirdstraight AL MVP Bellinger was the Yankees' bigmoney signing of the winter, reupping for five years and $162.5 million he bats Rice is perhaps the Yankees' best development story since Judge, his meteoric rise earning him the right to bat Stanton continues his march towards Cooperstown and stands as the Xfactor of the offense if he can stay healthy and produce like he did in the second half last Chisholm sixth after becoming just the third player in franchise history with a 3030 Caballero starts at shortstop with Anthony Volpe still recovering from offseason shoulder surgery and looks to lead the AL in stolen bases for the third year in a Deadline acquisition Ryan McMahon and fourthyear catcher Austin Wells are among the game's best defensively at their positions but are looking to rebound from disappointing campaigns at the plate they bat eighth and Giants have assembled their lineup around a core of ninefigure Adames and Matt Chapman have a legitimate claim as the best allaround left side of an infield in might be the one year that Gerrit Cole on the IL as he finishes his Tommy John rehab is relieved not to be Opening Day starter given the presence of his personal nemesis Rafael trio bats secondthroughfourth, ahead of leadoff hitter and offseason signing threetime batting champion Luis Hoo Lee plays right and bats fifth while Heliot Ramos breaks a 19year streak of the Giants naming a different Opening Day left fielder since Barry Schmitt gets the surprise nod at firsts ahead of the Giants' consensus top prospect Bryce Bailey established himself as the best defensive catcher in baseball and bats eighth, while former Yankees and Giants offseason signing Harrison Bader rounds out the lineup and patrols to watchLocation: Oracle Park San Francisco, CA First pitch: 8:05 pm ETTV broadcast: NetflixRadio broadcast: WFAN 660101.9 FM, WADO 1280Online stream: NetflixFor updates, follow us on BlueSky, Twitter https://www.newyorkfanoutlet.com/Jorbit_Vivas_Jersey, and Instagram, and like us on the conversation!Sign up for a user account and get:Fewer adsCreate community postsComment on articles, community postsRec comments, community postsNew, improved notifications system!