PEORIA, Ariz. \u2014 Relief pitcher Bryan Hoeing will miss the 2025 season after electing to undergo surgery to repair the flexor tendon in his right arm.<\/p>\n
Camp began with the expectation Hoeing would return to the bullpen after a 2025 season largely spent working through shoulder and elbow issues. But he was shut down late last month after feeling discomfort in his elbow.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bummer,\u201d manager Craig Stammen said. \u201cBecause he\u2019s someone that could have really been a big part of our bullpen, filled a lot of different roles, similar to what we saw from him in 2024 and the playoffs, and just how much better he made our team, our bullpen, how well he fit in. We really felt like we had an ace in the hole with him in the pen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hoeing was acquired from the Marlins at the 2024 trade deadline and put up a 1.52 ERA over 23\u2154 innings in 18 appearances. He made just one appearance for the Padres last season and pitched 18\u2154 innings in the minor leagues.<\/p>\n
Logan Gillaspie and left-handers Kyle Hart and Jackson Wolf are competing to fill the \u201cbridge\u201d reliever role Hoeing would have filled, being called on in different middle innings to face anywhere from one batter to nine.<\/p>\n
Recovery time for MLB pitchers after flexor tendon surgery is typically about nine months for a return to the mound.<\/p>\n
Musgrove still holding<\/p>\n
Every day that passes with nothing new makes it more likely Joe Musgrove likely will not begin the season on the Padres\u2019 roster.<\/p>\n
And that is not anywhere near the top of Stammen\u2019s list of concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably the last thing we\u2019re worried about is if he\u2019s making the first turn through the rotation,\u201d Stammen said. \u201cObviously, in the perfect world, he makes 35 starts for us. That\u2019s not realistic. I think we\u2019re just not rushing anything, being smart about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Musgrove, who had Tommy John surgery in October 2024 and did not pitch last season, has thrown one time in the bullpen since his first start in an exhibition game on March 4. While virtually everything \u2014 velocity, pitch shape \u2014 was considered a plus in that game, Musgrove\u2019s arm did not recover optimally and the Padres have decided to give him a rest.<\/p>\n
They had been clear for months this was a possibility. They did not know when the rest was going to occur, but they knew it was going to happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s (a step) back to move forward,\u201d pitching coach Ruben Niebla said earlier in the week. \u201cIt might not be the last time we do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stammen referred to the current situation as a \u201cholding pattern\u201d and a \u201cpause\u201d and reiterated the goal is to have Musgrove healthy throughout the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWaiting to kind of get over that hump, feel a little bit better before we start doing anything out on the field,\u201d\u00a0 Stammen said. \u201cBut still in a good spot, still something we knew was going to happen, had to prepare for. We\u2019ve got his best interest in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
That leaves two spots to be won in the rotation at the start of the season. Walker Buehler, Marco Gonzales, Triston McKenzie, Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez and JP Sears are ostensibly competing for those jobs. Multiple sources have indicated Buehler and M\u00e1rquez are the favorites.<\/p>\n
Notable<\/p>\n
Sung-Mun Song said he expected to take some swings Thursday for the first time since leaving Sunday\u2019s game with discomfort in his right oblique. Song, who was headed toward being the Padres\u2019 extra infielder, could begin the season on the injured list.
\nLeft-handed reliever Yuki Matsui, out since mid-February with an adductor (groin) strain, is scheduled to throw one more bullpen before facing hitters. That would not seem to give him enough time to be ready for opening day.
\nInfielder Will Wagner will almost certainly begin the season on the injured list. He suffered an oblique strain and has not played or done any baseball activity since the beginning of March.
\nYu Darvish, who will miss at least the 2026 season after major elbow surgery, stopped by the Peoria Sports Complex on Tuesday en route to Miami to watch Team Japan in the World Baseball Classic. He is expected to visit camp again after the WBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PEORIA, Ariz. \u2014 Relief pitcher Bryan Hoeing will miss the 2025 season after electing to undergo surgery to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,853,4,43,137,18,4339,4338,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-620946","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-latest-headlines","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-padres","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sandiegopadres","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116218780110255550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620946","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=620946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}