Griffin Canning has found a new baseball home, as the veteran right-handed starting pitcher has agreed to a one-year deal with the San Diego Padres, per Robert Murray of FanSided.<\/p>\n
The 2026 campaign will mark his seventh season in the majors, as Canning is coming off an outstanding year on the hill for the New York Mets. The 29-year-old posted a 7-3 record with a 3.77 ERA in 16 starts. Unfortunately, his season was cut short after rupturing his Achilles tendon during a late June start.<\/p>\n
Despite the disappointment, Canning put up terrific statistical numbers. He struck out 70 batters in 76.1 innings pitched and posted a 21.3% strikeout rate, which was his best mark since the 2023 season (25.9%) with the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n
He was once regarded as the Angels\u2019 top starting pitching prospect. His best season with the ball club came in 2020, as Canning authored a 2-3 mark with a 3.99 ERA in 11 starts.<\/p>\n
The Angels traded the right-hander to the Atlanta Braves for Jorge Soler. He signed with the Mets as a free agent before the start of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
Canning will compete for the fifth starter\u2019s role with the Friars this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Griffin Canning has found a new baseball home, as the veteran right-handed starting pitcher has agreed to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,58744,2231,2230],"class_list":{"0":"post-572957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-angels","12":"tag-laangels","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-angels","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangelesangels","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-san-diego-padres-breaking-news","19":"tag-san-diego-padres-analysis-commentary","20":"tag-san-diego-padres-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116071445516313439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572957","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=572957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}