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In baseball, a team's ace is the best starting pitcher in the team and nearly always the first pitcher in the starting rotation. Barring injury or exceptional circumstances, the ace is usually the pitcher that starts on Opening Day. In addition, aces are usually preferred to start crucial playoff games, sometimes on three days' rest.

Major League Baseball aces for the 2008 season

Based on mlb.com depth charts.

NL East

Club	Player
ATL	Tim Hudson
FLA	Ricky Nolasco
NYM	Johan Santana
PHI	Cole Hamels
WAS	Odalis Perez

NL Central

Club	Player
CHC	Carlos Zambrano
CIN	Edinson Volquez
HOU	Roy Oswalt
MIL	Ben Sheets
PIT	Ian Snell
STL	Adam Wainwright (Chris Carpenter when in good health)

NL West

Club	Player
ARI	Brandon Webb
COL	Aaron Cook
LAD	Chad Billingsley
SD	Jake Peavy
SF	Tim Lincecum

AL East

Club	Player
BAL	Jeremy Guthrie
BOS	Josh Beckett
NYY	Chien-Ming Wang
TB	Scott Kazmir
TOR	Roy Halladay

AL Central

Club	Player
CWS	Mark Buehrle
CLE	Cliff Lee
DET	Justin Verlander
KC	Zach Greinke
MIN	Liván Hernández

AL West

Club	Player
LAA	John Lackey
OAK	Justin Duchscherer
SEA	Erik Bedard
TEX	Kevin Millwood

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	In [[baseball]], a team's '''[[ace]]''' is the best [[starting pitcher]] in the team and nearly always the first pitcher in the [[starting rotation]]. Barring injury or exceptional circumstances, the ace is usually the pitcher that starts on [[Opening Day]]. In addition, aces are usually preferred to start crucial [[playoff]] games, sometimes on three days' rest.		In [[baseball]], a team's '''ace''' is the best [[starting pitcher]] in the team and nearly always the first pitcher in the [[starting rotation]]. Barring injury or exceptional circumstances, the ace is usually the pitcher that starts on [[Opening Day]]. In addition, aces are usually preferred to start crucial [[playoff]] games, sometimes on three days' rest.

	== Major League Baseball aces for the 2008 season==		== Major League Baseball aces for the 2008 season==