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,

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.

Yankees ace Gerrit Cole went under the knife on Tuesday to repair a torn ligament in his elbow, an injury that all but guarantees he won’t throw a pitch in the 2025 season. However, there’s a twist—while the expected course of action would’ve been Tommy John surgery,