{"id":474785,"date":"2026-02-14T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/474785\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:26:10","slug":"padres-sign-griffin-canning-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/474785\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Sign Griffin Canning – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Padres have signed right-hander Griffin Canning<\/a>, as initially reported overnight by the Divine Sports Gospel<\/a>.\u00a0 Canning\u2019s deal will be official once he passes a physical, according to FanSided\u2019s Robert Murray<\/a>.\u00a0 San Diego has a full 40-man roster in the wake of the Nick Castellanos<\/a> signing, so the Padres will have to make another move to open up 40-man space for Canning, who is represented by Wasserman.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something of a SoCal homecoming for Canning, who was born in Mission Viejo and played his college ball at UCLA.\u00a0 The 29-year-old also spent his first first Major League seasons with the Angels, posting a 4.78 ERA over 508 innings (starting 94 of 99 games).\u00a0 This was less than was expected of a pitcher who was once viewed as a top-100 prospect, and the Angels parted ways with Canning via a trade<\/a> with the Braves last offseason for Jorge Soler<\/a>.\u00a0 Atlanta then chose to non-tender Canning, since the Braves\u2019 chief goal of the trade was to unload Soler\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n

Canning then signed a one-year, $4.25MM contract with the Mets that initially looked like it was going to be a steal, as the righty posted a 2.47 ERA over his first nine years in New York.\u00a0 Some struggles over his next seven outings boosted his ERA to 3.77, yet that\u2019s unfortunately where Canning\u2019s story ended, as he suffered a season-ending ruptured Achilles tendon in late June.<\/p>\n

Reports from earlier this offseason suggested that Canning is hoping to be ready for Opening Day, or at least relatively early in April.\u00a0 He was feeling good enough to throw for scouts in a showcase last week, and his velocity was up to 93mph even at this relatively early stage in the preseason ramp-up process.\u00a0 The Mets, Cardinals, and White Sox were all linked to Canning earlier this winter, but he\u2019ll now be part of San Diego\u2019s rotation mix.<\/p>\n

The Padres\u2019 starting pitching situation has been a key issue for the team all winter, as Dylan Cease<\/a> left for the Blue Jays in free agency and Yu Darvish<\/a> will miss all of 2026 while recovering from an internal brace procedure.\u00a0 Re-signing Michael King<\/a> helped the Padres restore some stability, and Canning joins a list of arms that consists of King, Nick Pivetta<\/a>, Randy Vasquez<\/a>, JP Sears<\/a>, and Joe Musgrove<\/a> in his return from Tommy John surgery.\u00a0 Assuming everyone is healthy, Canning will probably push Vasquez or Sears into a relief or depth role once Canning is ready to pitch.<\/p>\n

While 76 1\/3 innings isn\u2019t the largest of sample sizes, Canning\u2019s 2025 season saw him post a 50.9% grounder rate, in a marked change for a pitcher who had only a 39.5% groundball rate during his time in Anaheim.\u00a0 Keeping the ball out of the air helped somewhat counter-act all of the hard contact Canning was allowing, as his 45.7% hard-hit ball rate was only in the 11th percentile of all pitchers.\u00a0 Canning\u2019s 10.7% walk rate was the highest of his career, and his 21.3% strikeout rate was nothing special.<\/p>\n

Pivetta\u2019s breakout in 2025 is evidence that the Padres can help pitchers unlock their potential, but for now, Canning projects as a back-end starter with some upside.\u00a0 How Canning responds to his Achilles injury is another x-factor, and his health history also includes a stress fracture in his back that cost him the entire 2022 season.<\/p>\n

Terms of Canning\u2019s deal aren\u2019t yet known, though it is fair to assume he\u2019ll earn something close to the $4.5MM he received from New York in 2025.\u00a0 The price tag was surely attractive to the Padres, who have been operating within a seemingly limited budget this offseason.\u00a0 Not counting Canning\u2019s deal, San Diego is projected (by RosterResource<\/a>) for roughly a $220.9MM payroll and a $265.48MM luxury tax number \u2014 both are slightly up from 2025, when the Padres had a $211.1MM payroll in 2025 and a $263MM tax number.\u00a0 The addition of Canning\u2019s contract now puts San Diego over the second tier ($264MM) of tax penalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres have signed right-hander Griffin Canning, as initially reported overnight by the Divine Sports Gospel.\u00a0 Canning\u2019s deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,1511,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-474785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-griffin-canning","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}