starters

With multiple starters on the injured list, the bullpen has shouldered a disproportionate share of the pitching load.

For starters, the competition is prestigious so winning it would be an accomplishment.

Both the Dodgers and Padres’ starters rank among the top five in innings pitched.

For starters, undocumented immigration is not the threat to public safety or the economy that Trump like to bloviate about.

"For starters, de Gaulle was still alive," he said, "so readers already knew a fictional assassination plot set in 1963 couldn't succeed."