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Brandon Morrow to start Jays’ Grapefruit League opener against the Tigers
DUNEDIN, Fla. – Brandon Morrow will start for the Toronto Blue Jays in their spring training opener against Detroit in Lakeland, Fla., on Saturday.
Manager John Gibbons says Mark Buehrle will then start Sunday in a split-squad game against the visiting Baltimore Orioles.
J.A. Happ will start in the other split-squad game that day, in Tampa against the New York Yankees.
Either knuckleballer R.A. Dickey or Josh Johnson will start Monday at home against a split Boston Red Sox squad.
Gibbons has already said Dickey, who went 20-6 and won the Cy Young Award last season with the New York Mets, will start opening day.
He said he will take a few returning players like Canadian Brett Lawrie, J.P. Arencibia and Adam Lind to Lakeland but will hold Jose Bautista and other veterans back until Sunday for the game against Baltimore.
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