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Justin Verlander likely to make his season debut this weekend - ESPN

HOUSTON — Astros ace Justin Verlander will throw a side session Tuesday, and if that goes well he'll make his season debut this weekend against the Washington Nationals.

2024 MLB ace rankings: Baseball's best starting pitchers - ESPN

Now that the excitement of Opening Day has begun to fade into the grind of the long season ahead, it's time to turn our focus to one of the most valuable positions on the field. Every year, we rank the top starting pitchers in baseball, though this season is unique as the main storyline on the mound is an issue that is building across MLB: injuries.

OutKick Exclusive: Why Are Younger Pitchers Getting Hurt More?

With the Major League Baseball season currently underway, one of the hottest topics has been what's been happening on the pitching mound - but for all the wrong reasons.

Why MLB must act now on alarming rate of pitching injuries - ESPN

It's all so ugly. Every day, it seems, another ulnar collateral ligament falls prey to the mere act of throwing a baseball. In a recent 48-hour period, Eury Perez, Shane Bieber and Spencer Strider — the best young pitcher in baseball, the 2020 American League Cy Young winner and the game's current strikeout king, respectively — all went down with damaged elbows. A game already too thin on starting pitching continues to lose its greatest talent at an alarming rate.