{"id":161989,"date":"2026-02-03T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161989\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:03:08","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-joe-musgrove-making-much-anticipated-return-in-26-catching-position-solidified-by-freddy-fermin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161989\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: Joe Musgrove making much anticipated return in \u201826; Catching position solidified by Freddy Fermin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Musgrove is returning to the field for the San Diego Padres for the 2026 season. His health and availability will be the keys to keeping him on the mound and Thomas Conroy of Gaslamp Ball says his results will be a determining factor in whether the Padres<\/a> reach the postseason. Musgrove missed the 2025 season recovering from Tommy John surgery and has said in recent interviews he is looking forward to toeing the slab for San Diego throughout the season and into October.<\/p>\n

Padres News:<\/p>\n

The most exciting move of the offseason for the Padres was re-signing Michael King. The right-hander had an up-and-down season in 2025 as a result of a nerve injury and a resulting knee injury, but when he was on the mound, he was one of the best pitchers in the rotation. Jeff Sanders of the San Diego Union-Tribune looks at what King can provide the Padres<\/a> in 2026 in his latest installment of the Padres roster review.<\/p>\n

The catcher position was a question mark in 2024 and 2025, but the Padres enter the 2026 season knowing<\/a> Freddy Fermin will be behind the plate. He learned his craft behind future Hall of Famer Salvador Perez as a member of the Kansas City Royals. Fermin came to the Padres as a surprising trade deadline move and stabilized the catching position in San Diego. He enters this season as the starter and Luis Campusano will have his chance to earn the backup role. <\/p>\n

Keith Law of The Athletic previously ranked the San Diego minor league system as the worst farm system in MLB. He focused solely on Padres prospects for his recent rankings<\/a>, which assigned individual rankings to various players in the San Diego system including Ethan Salas, Kruz Schoolcraft and Kash Mayfield among others.<\/p>\n

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Major League Baseball will take over broadcasts for six additional teams<\/a>, including the Milwaukee Brewers, Miami Marlins, Tampa Bay Rays, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds. The Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angles and Atlanta Braves have not decided if they will join MLB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Musgrove is returning to the field for the San Diego Padres for the 2026 season. His health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5221,78584,49641,7,9004,1496,8797,78582,34744,34745,7866,10909,47,77534,25154,29290,54,78583,74,76,75,2611,58,2846,48889,34743],"class_list":["post-161989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-avisail-garcia","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-california","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-edwin-diaz","tag-freddy-fermin","tag-gaslamp-ball","tag-jeff-sanders","tag-joe-musgrove","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-los-angeles","tag-luis-campusano","tag-miami-marlins","tag-michael-king","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-salvador-perez","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-thomas-conroy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}