July 8th, 2020 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka On Monday evening, it was reported on social media that Dodgers 2020 Compensatory Round-B draft pick Clayton Beeter had been added to the Dodgers 60-man Players Pool – although there was no official confirmation of this from the team.
That confirmation came on Tuesday afternoon when Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was asked during his daily pre-workout media scrum (via Zoom) if Beeter had, in fact, been added to the Player Pool.
“That is true,” Roberts confirmed. “And it is to get him… put eyes on him, get him around a baseball environment, around us.
“When you sign a player like that, you want to continue… you don’t want to lose this year and this summer; get him with our guys, which is a benefit to him,” added Roberts.”
Speaking of Claytons, Roberts was also asked who his Opening Day starter against the San Francisco Giants on July 23 at Dodger Stadium was going to be?
“It’ll be Clayton [Kershaw],” Roberts answered, without hesitation.
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I believe Ryu was last year’s OD starter…although it seems a lifetime ago….
You are 1,000% correct, Ken. It was indeed Hyun-Jin Ryu who started on Opening Day 2019 against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodger Stadium and got the win in the Dodgers’ lopsided 18-5 victory.
Kershaw began the 2019 season on the IL with a left shoulder injury and made his first start with the OKC Dodgers on April 4, 2019.
His (scheduled) start on July 23, 2020, will still be a franchise-record-extending ninth Opening Day start, just not consecutively.
Thank you for pointing this out – fixed.