{"id":716,"date":"2025-09-02T19:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:03:12","slug":"the-opener-farris-orioles-yankees-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"The Opener: Farris, Orioles, Yankees, Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>Here are three things we\u2019ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball world throughout the day today:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Farris to make MLB debut:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Angels selected the contract of left-hander <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=farris000mit&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mitch Farris<\/a><\/strong> yesterday when rosters expanded to 28 players. Farris will make his MLB debut when he takes the ball today against the Royals and veteran right-hander <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lorenmi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Lorenzen<\/a><\/strong> (4.62 ERA). Farris has spent the entire 2025 campaign at Double-A after being acquired from Atlanta in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/danieda01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Davis Daniel<\/a><\/strong> trade during the offseason. He has a 4.27 ERA in 116 innings of work at that level to go with an impressive 28.0% strikeout rate. Anaheim has long been aggressive when promoting its prospects, and the 24-year-old Farris will now get the opportunity to impact the big league level before ever setting foot at Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Orioles 40-man move incoming:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Orioles are set to welcome <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=wellsty01,wells-004tyl,wells-006tyl&amp;search=Tyler+Wells&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Wells<\/a><\/strong> back from the injured list today as they move towards a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/08\/orioles-to-move-to-six-man-rotation.html\">six-man rotation<\/a>. With Wells set to start today\u2019s game against <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/darviyu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yu Darvish<\/a><\/strong> (5.66 ERA in ten starts) in San Diego, Baltimore will need to make a 40-man roster move to accommodate the 31-year-old right-hander\u2019s return from the injured list. That could mean moving an injured player like right-hander <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/selbyco01.shtml\">Colin Selby<\/a><\/strong> to the 60-day injured list. If they\u2019re confident all of their players on the 10- or 15-day IL can make it back before season\u2019s end, the O\u2019s could designate someone from the back end of their 40-man roster for assignment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Series Preview: Yankees @ Astros<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A potential postseason preview is set to begin today when the Yankees kick off a three-game set against the Astros in Houston. The series starts with an exciting pitching matchup: southpaw <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/valdefr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Framber Valdez<\/a><\/strong> (3.18 ERA) takes the mound for the Astros as the Yankees counter with fellow lefty <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/friedma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Max Fried<\/a><\/strong> (3.06 ERA). Fried has struggled for much of the second half but will look to keep the good times rolling after back-to-back quality starts against the Red Sox and Nationals. Tomorrow\u2019s game will feature rookie <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/warrewi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Will Warren<\/a><\/strong> (4.30 ERA) against swingman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/alexaja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jason Alexander<\/a><\/strong> (4.61 ERA in 54 1\/3 innings), while the series finale will pit <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodonca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carlos Rodon<\/a><\/strong> (3.18 ERA) against <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/javiecr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cristian Javier<\/a><\/strong> (3.38 ERA in four starts) in the latter\u2019s fifth start back from Tommy John surgery.\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/09\/the-opener-farris-orioles-yankees-astros.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are three things we\u2019ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball world throughout the day today: 1. Farris to make MLB debut: The Angels selected the contract of left-hander Mitch Farris yesterday when rosters expanded to 28 players. Farris will make his MLB debut when he takes the ball today against the Royals &#8230; <a title=\"The Opener: Farris, Orioles, Yankees, Astros\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=716\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Opener: Farris, Orioles, Yankees, Astros\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Opener-Farris-Orioles-Yankees-Astros.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}