San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin announced that ace pitcher Logan Webb will be the Opening Day starter against the Cincinnati Reds on March 27, per Susan

It was a safe assumption. This will be Webb’s fourth consecutive Opening Day start, matching the longest streak in Giants history since Juan Marichal started six consecutive openers in the 1960s. Madison Bumgarner made a total of five Opening Day starts over a six-year span; Tim Lincecum started four consecutive openers from 2009-12.

Bob Melvin has yet to tell Logan Webb that Webb will be the ’ Opening Day starter. Melvin understands he doesn’t really need to have that conversation with his ace. “He knows,” Melvin said with a smile.

For a fourth consecutive year, Logan Webb will start Opening Day for the San Francisco Giants. He didn’t hear the news from manager Bob Melvin or anyone on the coaching staff, but from a crawl under the MLB Network broadcast he happened to pass by before his bullpen session on Friday afternoon.

Logan Webb was in the trainer’s room on Friday morning, getting ready for the day’s workout, when he saw his name flash across the bottom of a TV screen that was tuned to MLB Network. That’s how he found out — at least officially — that he would be starting on Opening Day.

Logan Webb was in the training room preparing for his bullpen session at Scottsdale Stadium on Friday morning when he happened to glance up at the television and see some breaking news on MLB Network: Manager Bob Melvin had officially named him the Giants’ Opening Day starter.

When Logan Webb kicked off his streak of four consecutive Opening Day starts for the San Francisco Giants back in 2022, he was the team’s youngest Opening Day starter in more than a decade. At 28, he’s no longer young for a baseball player,