{"id":501594,"date":"2026-01-01T14:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/501594\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T14:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:54:25","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-new-year-brings-same-old-questions-for-padres-regarding-roster-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/501594\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: New year brings same old questions for Padres regarding roster moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The San Diego Padres watched as their former first baseman, who was acquired at the 2025 trade deadline from the Baltimore Orioles, signed a two-year, $29 million deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates. With Ryan O\u2019Hearn off the free agent board and the Padres still looking to fill their first base position, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaslampball.com\/gaslamp-ball-reacts-poll\/52368\/padres-reacts-survey-should-san-diego-try-to-reunite-with-luis-arraez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could they look to bring back Luis Arraez?<\/a> When he was acquired from the Miami Marlins in 2024, Arraez was primarily a second baseman who was more known for his skills with the bat than his defense. With San Diego, Arraez spent more time at first base where, by all accounts, he improved throughout the season, but his offense struggled compared to his past seasons. Arraez remains a free agent and San Diego still has a need, could\/should the Padres bring him back? That is the question posed to the Friar Faithful by Gaslamp Ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego Padres watched as their former first baseman, who was acquired at the 2025 trade deadline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,38806,2231,2230,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-501594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-padres","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-padres","13":"tag-san-diego-padres-daily-links","14":"tag-san-diego-padres-analysis-commentary","15":"tag-san-diego-padres-news","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115820420403153088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}