{"id":542099,"date":"2026-01-25T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/542099\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T15:51:13","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-yu-darvish-contemplating-retirement-padres-to-wear-patch-in-honor-of-randy-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/542099\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: Yu Darvish contemplating retirement; Padres to wear patch in honor of Randy Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">As the 2026 MLB season draws near, various projections have started to come out about where the San Diego Padres will finish as a team, and some sites have gone on to predict how individual players will finish their season. These projections are a lot like weather models. There are formulas and trends that are taken into consideration and while sometimes these projections come to pass, nothing is certain. Cheri Bell of Gaslamp Ball provides an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaslampball.com\/san-diego-padres-analysis-commentary\/52820\/the-2026-projections-are-in-for-padres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:explanation of how the projections are made;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">explanation of how the projections are made<\/a> and what those projections look like for the Padres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Padres News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Padres CEO Erik Greupner announced at the celebration of life ceremony for Padres Hall of Famer Randy Jones that the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/padres\/news\/randy-jones-honored-by-padres-at-celebration-of-life\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:team will wear a \u201c35\u201d patch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">team will wear a \u201c35\u201d patch<\/a> on their uniforms to honor the late Cy Young Award winner. Current players, former teammates and fans filled Petco Park Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/01\/24\/padres-great-randy-jones-celebrated-for-his-spirit-legacy-and-ability-to-make-everyone-to-feel-special\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:to pay their respects;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">to pay their respects<\/a> to Jones.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/01\/24\/padres-pitcher-yu-darvish-set-to-retire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported Saturday that Padres pitcher Yu Darvish;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">reported Saturday that Padres pitcher Yu Darvish<\/a>, who will miss the 2026 season recovering from offseason surgery, was planning to retire and forfeit the remaining years and money on his contract. Since Acee filed the report, Darvish and his agent, Joe Wolfe, responded on X stating the report was not accurate and that he had not made a formal decision. Sonja Chen of MLB.com is reporting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/padres\/news\/yu-darvish-agent-on-retirement-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Darvish is \u201cleaning towards\u201d voiding;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Darvish is \u201cleaning towards\u201d voiding<\/a> what is left of his contract, but the previous report was premature. Dennis Lin of The Athletic is reporting that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6996261\/2026\/01\/24\/yu-darvish-retirement-report-mlb-padres\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:final details of a potential Darvish;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">final details of a potential Darvish<\/a> retirement have yet to be decided.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Baseball News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li>\n<p class=\"\">Anthony Castrovince of MLB.com reported he believes there are teams that can beat the Los Angeles Dodgers and he listed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/nl-teams-most-likely-to-dethrone-the-dodgers-in-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:his top five candidates;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">his top five candidates<\/a> as the Mets, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the 2026 MLB season draws near, various projections have started to come out about where the San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":542100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,104831,1280,1582,276,239057,1271,13593,95065,87337,2502,4247,1305,2083,1886,10222,185788,239058,3549,1306,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,43014],"class_list":{"0":"post-542099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andrew-mccutchen","10":"tag-atlanta-braves","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-cheri-bell","14":"tag-chicago-cubs","15":"tag-cleveland","16":"tag-craig-kimbrel","17":"tag-kevin-acee","18":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","19":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","20":"tag-new-york-mets","21":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","22":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","23":"tag-projections","24":"tag-randy-jones","25":"tag-samad-taylor","26":"tag-san-diego","27":"tag-san-diego-padres","28":"tag-sandiego","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-united-states-of-america","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-usa","35":"tag-yu-darvish"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542099","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=542099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}