As the battle for San Diego’s last starting rotation spot comes into focus, right-hander Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez heavily struggled against the Kansas City Royals on Thursday evening. The 31-year-old veteran lasted only 1 2\/3 innings, surrendering six runs on four hits and four walks. In three Cactus League starts, M\u00e1rquez sports a 12.15 ERA to go along with a 2.10 WHIP.<\/p>\n
As currently constructed and based on recent performances, Walker Buehler looks primed to break camp with the big league squad to open the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n
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Joe Musgrove is day-to-day says Stammen<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s looking more likely that the return of Joe Musgrove will have to wait a little longer. Before Thursday’s contest versus Kansas City, Padres skipper Craig Stammen said the right-hander is in “a bit of a holding pattern” as things stand.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re waiting to try and get over that hump, feel a little better before we start doing anything out on the field,\u201d said Stammen. \u201cBut he\u2019s [Musgrove] still in a good spot. It\u2019s still something we knew was going to kind of happen and that we had to prepare for. And we\u2019ve got his best interests in mind,” he added.<\/p>\n Musgrove, 33, missed all of last season after undergoing Tommy John surgery in October 2024. When asked how his arm felt recently, Musgrove was quoted as replying, \u201cIt feels like I had surgery.\u201d His last start came against Team Great Britain in a WBC exhibition game on March 4.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n No one expects Musgrove to supply San Diego with 200, or even 180 innings this season. It’s very noted that his ramp up process will have hurdles to clear. With him possibly sidelined, it gives arms such as M\u00e1rquez, Triston McKenzie, and Marco Gonzales to make a push for a spot on the Opening Day roster.<\/p>\n It also begs the question of how A.J. Preller and Padres brass will fill out the staring rotation. Will it be one of the names mentioned above? Or does the gun slinging GM have a move up his sleeve before March 26? I guess we’ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n Bryan Hoeing to miss entirety of ’26 season<\/strong><\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Per Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune, righty reliever Bryan Hoeing will undergo flexor tendon surgery and miss all of this upcoming season.<\/p>\n Hoeing, who was acquired from the Miami Marlins at the 2024 Trade Deadline along with lefty Tanner Scott, had recently been shutdown due to pain in his throwing elbow.\u00a0<\/p>\n In 82 major league appearances, Hoeing owns a 4.72 ERA with 107 strikeouts and a 1.50 WHIP in 145 innings pitched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the battle for San Diego’s last starting rotation spot comes into focus, right-hander Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez heavily struggled…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":652302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[1280,4618,176121,101305,43018,18818,255391,1286,1266,5741,3549,1306,62,51383,211086,67,132,68,11630],"class_list":["post-652301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-bryan-hoeing","tag-craig-stammen","tag-german-marquez","tag-joe-musgrove","tag-kansas-city","tag-marco-gonzales","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports","tag-tanner-scott","tag-triston-mckenzie","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-walker-buehler"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652301","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=652301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}