{"id":573058,"date":"2026-02-15T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/573058\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:05:15","slug":"padres-continue-busy-day-by-signing-former-longtime-rockies-starting-pitcher-german-marquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/573058\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres continue busy day by signing former longtime Rockies starting pitcher German Marquez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\" data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/san_diego_padres\/23&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1771194649531000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0_D_OGQG-IEdbc8ZogNrPz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/san_diego_padres\/23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Diego Padres<\/a> and president of baseball operations A.J. Preller spent Valentine&#8217;s Day adding players who will give them the best chance to take down reigning the World Series champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/nick_castellanos_quickly_lands_with_new_team_after_phillies_release\/s1_13132_43469852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">came to terms with<\/a> former Philadelphia Phillie Nick Castellanos to play first base, the outfield and be the designated hitter. Then the Padres deepened their rotation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/padres_sign_griffin_canning\/s1_13237_43469892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signing<\/a> veteran right-hander Griffin Canning and now former Colorado Rockies right-hander German Marquez on a one-year deal, according to ESPN\u2019s Alden Gonzalez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marquez has spent his entire 10-year career pitching in the Mile High City (Denver), where he went 68-72 with a 4.67 ERA in 203 games (200 starts) and struck out 1,069 batters in 1,146.1 innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marquez struggled in 2025 after recovering from Tommy John surgery, going 3-16 with a 6.70 ERA (career high) in 126.1 innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego Padres and president of baseball operations A.J. Preller spent Valentine&#8217;s Day adding players who will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-573058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116071728880064352","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573058","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=573058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}