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EspañolTeam USA manager Mark DeRosa has set his rotation for the World Baseball Classic.
It won’t be either of the reigning Cy Young award winners taking the ball in the pool play opener on Friday night in Houston against Team Brazil, rather Giants ace Logan Webb.
Tarik Skubal and Paul Skenes will then go back-to-back in Games 2 and 3, respectively.
Mets young right-hander Nolan McLean is currently penciled in to follow them as the starter in the pool play finale against the Italians, but it remains to be seen if he will be ready.
McLean was expected to join the club in Arizona for Monday’s team workout session, but he instead remains with the Mets as he fights through an illness, per NY Post's Joel Sherman.
DeRosa still doesn’t know if he’ll have to readjust things ahead of the March 10th meeting.
“We’ll reassess that day-to-day,” he told reporters including ESPN’s Jesse Rogers.
If USA is able to advance past pool play, Skenes, Webb, and McLean have already said they'll make two appearances.
Skubal, on the other hand, is only expected to pitch once.
It also remains to be seen exactly how Clay Holmes will be used as well, as the Mets stretched him out to four-ups and 60 pitches in his second start of the spring on Sunday.