{"id":542585,"date":"2026-01-28T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/542585\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:21:15","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-jake-cronenworth-could-be-key-to-success-for-padres-yu-darvish-is-an-outlier-who-fans-should-appreciate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/542585\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: Jake Cronenworth could be key to success for Padres; Yu Darvish is an outlier who fans should appreciate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jake Cronenworth has been a mainstay in the San Diego Padres organization since 2020 when he came to San Diego in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays. Cronenworth has proven himself to be a versatile defender who can play multiple positions at a high level. His offense has been an area of inconsistency during his time with the Padres and he has been unable to recreate the success he had at the plate in 2021. Thomas Conroy of Gaslamp Ball looks at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaslampball.com\/gaslamp-ball-staff-editorials\/52885\/padres-jake-cronenworths-versatility-key-to-2026-success\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">value Cronenworth brings to the major league roster<\/a> and how he can be a key to the team\u2019s success in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Cronenworth has been a mainstay in the San Diego Padres organization since 2020 when he came to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542586,"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-542585","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542585","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=542585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}