St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty will be the Opening Day starter against the Reds on April 1, and he will be followed in the rotation by Adam Wainwright, Carlos Martinez, Daniel Ponce de Leon and John Gant, Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Flaherty, Wainwright and Martinez will have good matchups in the opening series, as they will take on a Reds offense that was tied for the sixth-highest strikeout rate (25.2 percent) and had the worst average (.212) last ...

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty had a rough outing in his penultimate spring start on Monday against the Miami Marlins. Flaherty pitched 5 1/3 innings and allowed five hits, three walks and four runs (three earned) while striking out five. He now has a 6.97 ERA and 1.74 WHIP over 10.1 innings this spring. He'll have one more start this spring and it will again come against the Marlins on Saturday. Flaherty currently has an ADP around 30. He's a great target late in the second...

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty threw four solid innings in Wednesday's Grapefruit League game against the Washington Nationals. In his four innings, Flaherty allowed two runs on two hits and a walk while striking out four. The outing dropped Flaherty's spring ERA to 9.00. He'll be on the mound for the Cardinals on Opening Day and should be a strong contributor to starting rotations in mixed leagues this year.

St. Louis Cardinals Opening Day starting pitcher Jack Flaherty got off to a rough start in the first Cardinals Grapefruit League game on Sunday. Flaherty got the start but only pitched one inning, allowing three runs on four hits and three walks while striking out one. Flaherty threw 39 pitches in his lone inning, just 17 for strikes. This early in the spring (literally February) a rough start is nothing to worry about, but after regressing in almost all relevant categories in the short 2020 ...

St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Shildt announced that right-handed pitcher Jack Flaherty will get the Opening Day start against the Cincinnati Reds. Flaherty had a bit of a down season in the abbreviated 2020 campaign, posting a 4.91 ERA, but he was excellent in 2019, with a 2.75 ERA to go with 11 wins. The 25-year-old has consistently maintained a strike out rate over 28% and approaching 30. He's a solid fantasy starter with upside despite some concerns raised by his performance last season.

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty, who won his salary arbitration case last week against the team, was the unfortunate victim of bad timing in 2020. The right-hander made just one start before the team's COVID-19 outbreak, and his next turn in the rotation came 26 days after his Opening Day start. Flaherty was also put on a strict innings limit upon his return, and he threw just 105 pitches in his first two outings. If we were to remove his three-inning start in September in ...

Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Nate Pearson debuted last July to much fanfare, but he had a sky-high 16 percent walk rate and was among the worst starters in baseball at locating his pitches in 2020. The right-hander can hit triple digits on the radar gun and has a slider with good depth, a big loopy curveball and a high-80s changeup to go with his heater. Each of his secondary pitches had 30-plus percent whiff-per-swing rates, and he compares well to Jack Flaherty, Dinelson Lamet, Yu ...

The St. Louis Cardinals and ace starting pitcher Jack Flaherty haven't agreed to terms on a 2021 contract and exchanged salary arbitration figures on Friday. The 25-year-old asked for $3.9 million and the team offered $3 million. An arbitrator will hear their cases and make a decision next month. Flaherty finished fourth in the National League Cy Young voting in 2019 and he went 4-3 with a 4.91 ERA over nine starts in the shortened 2020 season. It's his first season being eligible for ...

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty dealt with a tumultuous season in 2020 which has not resulted in any sort of discount. In addition to the issues across MLB, the Cardinals also dealt with a lengthy drought of playing time during the season which had to affect Flaherty's endurance and pitching routine. When Flaherty was on the mound, he wasn't as good as the second half of 2019, but he was definitely better than the first half. He finished with a 4.91 ERA and 49 strikeouts ...

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty pitched very well in Sunday's win. He pitched six innings, allowing just one run on two hits and two walks while striking out 11. Flaherty was objectively awful his last time out, so it was good to see him back at his best in this one. The win improved his record to 4-2 and dropped his ERA to 4.84. Flaherty likely has one more start in the regular season.