{"id":770540,"date":"2026-08-05T09:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/770540\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:33:15","slug":"padres-new-look-rotation-takes-shape-with-mize-starting-wednesday-and-ray-on-friday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/770540\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres&#8217; new-look rotation takes shape with Mize starting Wednesday and Ray on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 The San Diego Padres&#8217; new-look rotation is starting to take shape, with right-hander Casey Mize scheduled to start Wednesday against the Arizona Diamondbacks while lefty Robbie Ray will make his team debut Friday against the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego manager Craig Stammen said Tuesday it was good to have such quality reinforcements after the Padres were one of the trade deadline&#8217;s big buyers. San Diego came into Tuesday night&#8217;s game against the Diamondbacks with a 58-55 record, two games behind Philadelphia and Arizona for the third National League wild card.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s always nice to improve your roster and like (general manager) A.J. (Preller) says, we&#8217;re here to try to win,&#8221; Stammen said. \u201cAdding those guys is a part of that process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mize had a 4-6 record with a 2.70 ERA through 16 starts with the Detroit Tigers this season despite managing a groin injury. Ray \u2014 the 2021 AL Cy Young Award winner \u2014 was 10-6 with a 3.08 ERA for the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Mize said he knew there was a \u201c50-50\u201d chance he would be traded at Monday&#8217;s deadline. He added that leaving the Tigers was emotional, but he&#8217;s excited to join another quality organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn&#8217;t like I was trying to get out of there \u2014 that place means a lot to me,\u201d Mize said. \u201cBut I couldn&#8217;t be more excited and happy for this opportunity. I landed in a great situation. So some mixed emotions, but I&#8217;m happy with how everything turned out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Padres also hope veterans Joe Musgrove and Nick Pivetta will be able to rejoin the team&#8217;s pitching staff soon. Both had a rehab outing Tuesday at Class A Lake Elsinore, with vastly different results.<\/p>\n<p>Musgrove threw 2 2\/3 innings, giving up one earned run and striking out three. The 33-year-old hasn&#8217;t pitched in the big leagues since having Tommy John surgery in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Pivetta threw just 14 pitches in relief <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MartyCaswell\/status\/2084716378871967840?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">before abruptly walking off the mound<\/a>. Stammen said Pivetta experienced some tightness in his elbow, but recovered to throw a roughly 30-pitch bullpen in the batting cage a few minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake that for what it&#8217;s worth \u2014 we&#8217;ll find out how Nick feels tomorrow, same with Joe,\u201d Stammen said. \u201cWe&#8217;ll find out how they feel tomorrow, reassess, then go on from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pivetta went on the injured list April 14 because of elbow inflammation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 The San Diego Padres&#8217; new-look rotation is starting to take shape, with right-hander Casey Mize&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,399,54201,1531,4,45,9501,43,95161,9496,83120,39138,1822,137,18,4339,4338,5971],"class_list":["post-770540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego-padres","tag-baseball","tag-casey-mize","tag-craig-stammen","tag-joe-musgrove","tag-mlb","tag-nick-pivetta","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-padres","tag-padres-robbie-ray-casey-mize","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40774-ap-arizona-sports-only","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-robbie-ray","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sandiego","tag-sandiegopadres","tag-tommy-john"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117042217152799385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770540","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=770540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}