Montreal Expos: Top 3 Opening Day starters from years past

We examine a list of pitchers the Montreal Expos ran out to the mound for opening day and determine who was the best of them all.

There have been some great names to take the mound wearing a Montreal Expos uniform and getting the call to be an opening day starter is a distinguished honor. We take a look at the top three names, using the criteria of what the pitcher meant to the Expos, their contribution to major league baseball as a whole, and their overall effectiveness on the mound.

Honorable Mention: Carl Morton was an 18-game winner in 1970 for the Expos along the way to winning the Rookie of the Year Award. He got the nod on opening day 1971 and won 35 games total in his four years pitching in Montreal.

Livan Hernandez pitched two years in Montreal and five in Washington and pitched the final opening day in Expos history before the team moved. He was an All-Star for the Expos and the ageless wonder, veteran of seventeen years, won 70 games for the organization, though only 26 wearing an Expos uniform.

*Pedro Martinez was tabbed as the 1996 opening day starter. The game was postponed due to the on-field death of umpire John McSherry, so technically Martinez didn’t pitch an opening day. His Hall of Fame career included two All-Star seasons in Montreal, a Cy Young, and 55 career wins with Les Expos