{"id":499196,"date":"2026-01-07T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499196\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:36:10","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-joe-musgrove-jackson-merrill-need-impactful-seasons-in-2026-padres-still-looking-to-address-roster-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499196\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: Joe Musgrove, Jackson Merrill need impactful seasons in 2026; Padres still looking to address roster holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Joe Musgrove is returning from a missed season with his sights set on making an impact in the San Diego Padres rotation. Jackson Merrill returned at the end of the season and flashed what could be with a strong month of September to end the year. The Padres will need Musgrove and Merrill to have impact seasons if they are going to challenge for a playoff spot let alone the National League West. If Musgrove and Merrill can stay healthy and if Michael King can bounce back from his pinched nerve and sprained knee, San Diego should find itself in contention in 2026. Gaslamp Ball <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaslampball.com\/gaslamp-ball-reacts-poll\/52490\/padres-reacts-survey-does-joe-musgrove-or-jackson-merrill-need-to-have-the-better-season-in-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked the Friar Faithful<\/a> if Musgrove or Merrill needs to have the better season for the Padres to be successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Musgrove is returning from a missed season with his sights set on making an impact in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,204824,77655,77656,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-499196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-padres-analysis-commentary","13":"tag-san-diego-padres-daily-links","14":"tag-san-diego-padres-news","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115854559398883359","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}