Arizona Diamondbacks: Predicting the 2020 rotation

The Arizona Diamondbacks have made a few moves this season and their biggest acquisition will have huge implications on the starting rotation this year. 

The Arizona Diamondbacks have done one thing really well the past couple of seasons and that is developing starting pitchers.  Several of these pitchers have gone on to have big careers, sometimes with other teams and sometimes sticking around the desert.

A few of those names include Max Scherzer, Patrick Corbin and Daniel Hudson.  They have also been good at acquiring great starting pitching prospects in trades.  A few of the names on this list came via trades a la Paul Goldschmidt.

To be honest this off-season I really did not expect the Diamondbacks to be in the mix for any of the big-name free agents like Stephen Strasburg, Gerrit Cole or even Hyun-Jin Ryu.  To me, it seemed like they were pretty set with the guys they had.  It is a young rotation, but they played very well.

As crazy as it might sound, we are only about a month away from pitchers and catchers reporting for Spring Training.  That’s right people, we don’t need to wait too much longer to have baseball back in our lives.

With that, let’s take a look at who will be in the rotation this year.  I’m going to start from the back-end of the rotation and take it up to who I think will be the opening day starter for the 2020 season