Major League Baseball's 2025 Opening Day is less than two weeks away. As such, it is never too early to keep tabs on each team's Opening Day starter. These announcements have come in throughout spring training,

The New York Yankees will start a left-handed pitcher on Opening Day following Gerrit Cole's Tommy John surgery. It just won't be $215 million free agent signing Max Fried. Yankees manager Aaron Boone announced Friday that Carlos Rodon would get the baseball on March 27 against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Here are a handful of starting pitchers to watch through the first few months of the season who could, eventually, be traded and help the New York Yankees replace Gerrit Cole.