{"id":538985,"date":"2026-01-26T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/538985\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:45:14","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-joe-musgrove-is-ready-for-return-to-mound-padres-fans-prefer-lucas-giolito-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/538985\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: Joe Musgrove is ready for return to mound; Padres fans prefer Lucas Giolito in free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove said he is anxious to get back on the mound for his hometown team and a year of good health as he and the Padres look to return to the postseason according to Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/01\/25\/padres-joe-musgrove-ready-to-go-with-eye-toward-healthy-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Musgrove spoke at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at San Dieguito Community Park<\/a> where he and centerfielder Jackson Merrill were in attendance for the re-opening of a ballpark that is used for the Miracle League of San Diego. Musgrove said he wants to have a normal season but understands that the ultimate goal is to pitch in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove said he is anxious to get back on the mound for his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538986,"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-538985","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\/115962178719468589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538985","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=538985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}