Pirates vs. Reds: MLB Opening Day prediction Although the regular season technically began last week.



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That includes the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds, who will play each other to begin the season for just the third time in the last 60 years.Here's how you can watch and what you should be aware of heading into the new season.Pirates: For the Pirates, one of the biggest stories of their season will be the further development of Jameson

Japan, the rest of the league will enjoy Opening Day on Thursday, March 28.Taillon. Last season, he made 32 starts and posted a 3.20 ERA. If Taillon can take yet another step forward, the Pirates will have a budding ace on their hands. They'll need one to avoid the cellar and realistically threaten for a wild-card position.Reds: 

The Reds spent the winter adding rental veterans. You'll find a lot of familiar faces here, including Yasiel Puig, Alex Wood, Matt Kemp, and Tanner Roark. Clearly the Reds are trying this season, the question is whether the effort will pay off. Cincy is stuck in arguably baseball's deepest division, with each team having a realistic chance at breaking .500. Seeing as how the Reds haven't enjoyed a winning season since 2013, it's fair to say that the fanbase has reason to be excited. 

This is the day, of course, that Major League Baseball goes from grapefruits to the one, true opening game anywhere, here in the 150-year-old home of its most venerable franchise: Through the morning and afternoon, the schools and offices are closed, there's a parade through town and into historic Findlay Market."It's a holiday! A baseball holiday!" the legendary red-leg Sparky Anderson once famously exclaimed. "Ain't no other place in America got that!"Nope. 

And at 4:10 p.m., the Reds' Luis Castillo will fire the first pitch to Adam Frazier, and it'll all get really real.See, the problem with peering into the Pirates' future of a full summer is that they never enter a season equipped with the strongest roster they could have and, thus, they wait half the season before determining if it's worthwhile to add and, if it isn't, they're capable of going kablooey on the entire process. So what this morning looks like, oh, another 82-win roster, could just as violently swing toward 90 or 70 depending on which way the front office pendulum swings.