{"id":552357,"date":"2026-02-03T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/552357\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:59:11","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-joe-musgrove-making-much-anticipated-return-in-26-catching-position-solidified-by-freddy-fermin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/552357\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: Joe Musgrove making much anticipated return in \u201826; Catching position solidified by Freddy Fermin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Joe Musgrove is returning to the field for the San Diego Padres for the 2026 season. His health and availability will be the keys to keeping him on the mound and Thomas Conroy of Gaslamp Ball says his results will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaslampball.com\/gaslamp-ball-staff-editorials\/53034\/padres-postseason-hopes-rest-on-a-resurgent-joe-musgrove\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">determining factor in whether the Padres<\/a> reach the postseason. Musgrove missed the 2025 season recovering from Tommy John surgery and has said in recent interviews he is looking forward to toeing the slab for San Diego throughout the season and into October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Musgrove is returning to the field for the San Diego Padres for the 2026 season. His health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,38806,2231,2230],"class_list":{"0":"post-552357","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-san-diego-padres-daily-links","11":"tag-san-diego-padres-analysis-commentary","12":"tag-san-diego-padres-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116007296526085589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552357","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=552357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}