{"id":525339,"date":"2026-01-17T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/525339\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:37:12","slug":"sung-mun-song-to-miss-four-weeks-recovering-from-oblique-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/525339\/","title":{"rendered":"Sung Mun Song To Miss Four Weeks Recovering From Oblique Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Padres infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=song--000sun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sung Mun Song<\/a> will require about four weeks of recovery time due to an oblique injury, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20260117002600315?input=tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jeeho Yoo of the Yonhap News Agency<\/a>.\u00a0 Song sustained the injury during a recent batting practice session.<\/p>\n<p>The projected recovery period just about matches up with the start of San Diego\u2019s spring camp, so Song might not miss any time at all as he prepares for his first big league Spring Training.\u00a0 As always, of course, oblique-related injuries are notoriously tricky to gauge, so the four-week timeline perhaps represents a best-case scenario.\u00a0 Song will also be missing out on offseason prep time in general, so depending on his progress, the Padres could place him on the 10-day injured list to begin the season if Song still needs a little more time to ramp up.<\/p>\n<p>As Yoo notes, the more immediate matter for Song even before Opening Day is the World Baseball Classic in March.\u00a0 That said, it wasn\u2019t known if Song was intending to play for the South Korean national team or if he was skipping the WBC to focus on his debut season in the majors.\u00a0 Yoo writes that Song didn\u2019t take part in the South Korean team\u2019s preliminary camp that opened on January 9, hinting that Song might not have been in the team\u2019s plans even if healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Song wasn\u2019t on the national team\u2019s radar during the last WBC in 2023, as the infielder didn\u2019t really start to produce big numbers in the KBO League until the 2024 season.\u00a0 Song broke out with 19 homers and a .340\/.409\/.518 slash line over 602 plate appearances for the Kiwoom Heroes that year, and followed up by hitting .315\/.387\/.530 with 26 home runs in 646 PA in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This put Song onto the radar of Major League teams, and after the Heroes agreed to post him,\u00a0San Diego <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/12\/padres-to-sign-sung-mun-song.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">signed<\/a> Song in December to a four-year contract worth $15MM in guaranteed money, with a player opt-out prior to the 2029 season and a club option for the 2030 season.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/machama01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-17_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manny Machado<\/a> is occupying Song\u2019s primary position of third base, but Song\u2019s ability to also play first and second base should allow him plenty of playing time bouncing around the Padres\u2019 infield, plus the team has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/12\/padres-considering-song-in-outfield.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">considered him<\/a> as an outfield candidate.\u00a0 There\u2019s plenty of intrigue in how the 29-year-old will adjust to MLB pitching, though this oblique issue is an unwelcome first hurdle to Song\u2019s Padres career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Padres infielder Sung Mun Song will require about four weeks of recovery time due to an oblique injury,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,44543],"class_list":{"0":"post-525339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sung-mun-song"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115911658890273172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525339","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=525339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}