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While they have had some luck winning the opener the last couple years, over the last decade it has been a losing affair. Winning game 1 with a youngster would make it pretty sweet over the disappointment of the club ace losing the first game.

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4 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:
 

Is he the least experienced opening day starter (5 career starts) in Twins history? 

Yes. Per Phil Miller in the Strib, Tom Hall currently has the fewest major league innings pitched of any Twins opening day starter, 29.2, in 1969. When Ryan makes his start he will be doing so with 26.2 major league innings pitched.

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16 minutes ago, Nine of twelve said:

Yes. Per Phil Miller in the Strib, Tom Hall currently has the fewest major league innings pitched of any Twins opening day starter, 29.2, in 1969. When Ryan makes his start he will be doing so with 26.2 major league innings pitched.

And per Do-Hyoung Park, “He will become the third pitcher in the Expansion Era (since 1961) to make an Opening Day start within his first six career games, joining José Guzman of the '86 Rangers and Steve Busby of the '73 Royals.”

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To me people make too big of a deal on opening day starters.  I understand the point is having your top pitcher and we would number our starters in order of talent, but after the first week or two the match ups with teams really get mixed up anyways.  It is rare throughout the season teams will match up their number 1 guy every time.  

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dex8425 Draft Eligible

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12 hours ago, ashbury said:

Hall of Famers, neither one.  But if Joe Ryan has an above-average career, as both of these two did, one hardly could be disappointed at this omen.

Yeah I was going to say at least I've heard of both of those guys and I remember Busby was pretty good. Looked him up- two back to back 6 WAR seasons. 

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