extra special for the guy who gets the honor of pitching that game and this year that belongs to jake arieta who just turned 26, this is his first opening day start and the youngest starter since mike mussina in 1994. he represents the movement to grow young arms as the foundation of them becoming a winning team along with them. he is coming off elbow surgery, it has been -- even though he is young and it has been a short career it has been a long road and he appreciates this opportunity and this honor. >> the adversity you go through over the course of your career makes it all worth it. the rehab process that i had to go through this off-season. all the time and effort that i had to put in to get to where i am right now and to, you know, b be the opening day starter just makes everything you know a lot sweeter. you know, especially the way that it has panned out, so you know it feels really good. >> reporter: and when he grips that first pitch that is the ball he will be using. every oriole baseball this year at home is stamped with a 20th anniversary stamp so if you are here at the ballpar

. >> there is no doubt about it with jake arieta starting and all that. they needed to do that and if you look what he did, he used 10 different starters to come up with five, 31 relievers pitched. so if you have have an open competition you have that and they believe so because it is strength in numbers it is not just let's take that guy, it is somebody that earned their way on the team. >> well you that have to pitch better and one thing they did is they scored runs -- >> -- oh, they -- >> -- lose, and well you know nolan ryan will be in left field and you know -- >> -they -- >> -- day -- >> -- big question, there is always that potential versus production, chris davis has tremendous home run power and he has home run power to all fields but the key with davis is will he make enough contact -- >> uh-huh -- >> -- ballpark, he has that tremendous raw power that you can't teach especially, as does nolan and with nolan really intriguing in the lead off spot what buck showalter is doing with him. he really has a tremendous batting eye, you might argue he has