{"id":553419,"date":"2026-02-04T02:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/553419\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T02:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:18:26","slug":"two-red-sox-from-2025-set-to-feature-in-cardinals-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/553419\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Red Sox From 2025 Set To Feature In Cardinals&#8217; Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard not to think of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/teams\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> when you look at Bleacher Report\u2019s prediction for the St. Louis Cardinals\u2019 Opening Day rotation.<\/p>\n<p>The prediction, penned by Joel Reuter, has former Red Sox pitchers Dustin May and Richard Fitts factoring into St. Louis\u2019 top five, with May in the No. 2 spot (!) and Fitts rounding out the rotation at the back end.<\/p>\n<p>Reuter\u2019s entire prediction for the Cardinals, in order, was Matthew Liberatore, May, Michael McGreevy, Andre Pallante, and Fitts. Reuter also noted that former Red Sox right-hander Hunter Dobbins will compete for a spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the top three spots on the Cardinals staff appear to be locked, the final two are wide open heading into camp, with newcomers\u00a0Richard Fitts\u00a0and\u00a0Hunter Dobbins\u00a0set to compete with incumbent starter\u00a0Andre Pallante\u00a0and potential reliever-turned-starter\u00a0Kyle Leahy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25380000-predicting-every-mlb-teams-2026-opening-day-starting-rotation-version-30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuter wrote<\/a>. \u201cThis season will be all about assessing roster pieces for long-term potential, so expect top prospect\u00a0Quinn Mathews\u00a0to get a look by midseason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hard not to think of the Boston Red Sox when you look at Bleacher Report\u2019s prediction for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,126,4,2275,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-553419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-dustin-may","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-richard-fitts","13":"tag-st-louis","14":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","15":"tag-stlouis","16":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116009966399181726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}