GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The White Sox won’t be using any openers during the course of their 2019 season.

There might be a game or two where they employ a bullpen-by-committee approach, but that sort of setup won’t feature a reliever for an inning or two followed by a starter. The team’s goal for getting 27 outs per night begins with starting pitchers such as Carlos Rodón, Reynaldo López, Ivan Nova, Lucas Giolito and Ervin Santana working deep into games, and then bringing in the bullpen to finish.

“That opener aspect for me is talking probably in terms of having limited depth in your starting rotation as far as I’m concerned,” White Sox manager Rick Renteria said. “We’d like all these guys to carry us and keep us in ballgames.

“We’ve talked about that a lot. Again, it’s up to them to go ahead and put those expectations to work during the regular season.”

In terms of reliable starters, the White Sox have been spoiled to some extent over the years. They had James Shields top 200 innings as recently as 2018. They could consistently rely on All-Star pitchers, such as Chris Sale and Jose Quintana. Going back a little further, there was Mark Buehrle, who posted at least 200 innings pitched, 30 starts and double-digit victories from ‘01-11 in Chicago.

Don’t forget the 2005 playoffs, when the White Sox starters worked at least seven innings in 11 of those 12 postseason contests on their way to a World Series title, and threw an amazing four straight complete games in the American League Championship Series. The present incarnation of the White Sox rotation is growing as part of the rebuild, but as pitching coach Don Cooper has said previously, they aren’t looking for reasons to pull them from the game.

“From a starting perspective, every guy is working very hard,” Giolito said. “Having the older guys Nova and Santana, learning a lot from them. I'm looking forward to having more conversations.”

Rodon, who earned his first career Opening Day nod, looks like a top-of-the-rotation pitcher who came to camp completely healthy. Lopez finished with a 1.38 ERA over his last seven starts of 2018, working at least seven innings in four of those. Giolito overhauled his approach in the offseason and feels as good as he has throwing the ball since he was 19. Dylan Cease, the 2018 Minor League Pitcher of the Year per MLB Pipeline, will arrive in the Majors at some point this season.

Cease remains the only young White Sox hurler to have some sort of innings restriction ahead. But veterans such as Nova and Santana will help ease the pressure on the young arms.

General manager Rick Hahn has shortened the game by adding closer Alex Colome via trade and bringing in free agent Kelvin Herrera. Manny Banuelos and Dylan Covey provide long relief options and, when adding in Nate Jones and Jace Fry, they could have a handful of options for high-leverage, late-game situations.

Just don’t look for them to open any games.

“Who wants an opener? I don’t want an opener,” Nova said. “We have guys capable enough to give you six, seven innings. It’s never going through my mind about being good enough to give you a lot of innings.”

“Again, it’s different,” Renteria said. “I’m not going to critique it or criticize it. It’s just something that’s existent in the game today. Fortunately for us we have enough starting pitching that we don’t have to continue to worry about that.”