{"id":651777,"date":"2026-03-30T03:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/651777\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:46:14","slug":"padres-drop-opening-series-key-takeaways-from-first-three-games-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/651777\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Drop Opening Series; Key Takeaways From First Three Games Of Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego had one of the strongest bullpens in baseball last season, and despite being without some key arms from that 2025 staff, they still look really solid. Right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/adamja01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Adam<\/a> and his 1.93 ERA will miss a chunk of the start of the year, and right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/suarero01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Suarez<\/a> departed in free agency, but the majority of the Padres\u2019 bullpen has held up well through the first three contests. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego had one of the strongest bullpens in baseball last season, and despite being without some key&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-651777","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-sandiego","14":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116316077019947974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651777","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=651777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}