{"id":96076,"date":"2025-02-21T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=96076"},"modified":"2025-02-21T14:34:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:34:59","slug":"sf-giants-name-reliable-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/02\/21\/sf-giants-name-reliable-ace\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants Name Reliable Ace as Opening Day Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It comes as no surprise that the San Francisco Giants have named Logan Webb as their Opening Day starter for the fourth consecutive season. Last season for the Giants, Webb sported a 13-10 record with a 3.47 ERA with 172 strikeouts across 204.2 innings pitched. Webb has been the Giants&#8217; durable starter and earned his first All-Star selection last season. He has been a reliable starter in the rotation who is known for eating up innings. Since 2023 he&#8217;s pitched over 200 innings and is looking to sustain that consistency. Webb was drafted by the Giants in 2014 in the fourth round and signed a five-year $90 million <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2023\/04\/18\/giants-logan-webb-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">extension<\/a> through 2028 on April 14th, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unsurprising in any way but Melvin says Logan Webb is the Giants Opening Day starter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/susanslusser\/status\/1892973346066759839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>SF Giants Name Logan Webb As Opening Day Starter<\/h2>\n<h3>Webb&#8217;s Durability Earns Him Spot As Opening Day Starter<\/h3>\n<p>Since 2022, Webb has been named as the Giants Opening Day starter. Webb has strong athleticism and showcased a solid fastball from a young age. When Webb was a senior in high school, his fastball reached the mid-90s. Webb will be entering his seventh season with a Giants organization whose below .500 2024 season is looking to be revamped. But keep in mind, the Giants took a hit to their starting rotation with Blake Snell <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/11\/26\/blake-snell-signs-with-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">signing<\/a> with the Los Angeles Dodgers. But they did add a veteran arm with Justin Verlander. In addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/07\/sf-giants-sign-willy-adames-seven-year-deal\/\" target=\"_self\">franchise-record signing<\/a> of Willy Adames.<\/p>\n<p>But overall, the Giants&#8217; offseason didn&#8217;t drastically enhance the roster. Rumors were speculated that the Giants were pursuing the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/01\/04\/sf-giants-join-trade-market-luis-castillo\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">trade market<\/a> for Luis Castillo, but he remains with the Seattle Mariners. Luckily, they have Webb, who is known as the &#8220;ground ball machine.&#8221; According to <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballsavant.mlb.com\/savant-player\/logan-webb-657277?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baseball Savant<\/a>, last season, his ground ball ranked in the 95th percentile at a rate of 57.2 %. Webb&#8217;s ability to produce ground balls comes from his mixed usage of the sinker\/changeup\/slider. This mix of pitches successfully generates a lot of groundballs as he also gets ahead in the count. Last season, Webb also sported a solid chase rate of 33 %. This showcases his capability to be dominant on the mound against opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It comes as no surprise that the San Francisco Giants have named Logan Webb as their Opening Day starter for the fourth consecutive season. Last season for the Giants, Webb sported a 13-10 record with a 3.47 ERA with 172 strikeouts across 204.2 innings pitched. Webb has been the Giants&#8217; durable starter and earned his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4831,"featured_media":96093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1071],"tags":[1122,3037,92,922,3174],"class_list":["post-96076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giants","category-mlb","tag-blake-snell","tag-logan-webb","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-luis-castillo","tag-willy-adames"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96076"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96101,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96076\/revisions\/96101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}