Sometimes no news is good news. In this case, no news on Mason Miller changing roles just makes everything feel weirder.<\/p>\n
The San Diego Padres are acting like a team in transition and contention at the same time, which is how you end up in this kind of gray area. They\u2019ve already watched Dylan Cease walk. The odds of re-signing Michael King feel slimmer by the day. Yu Darvish is out for the year. So right now, you\u2019re essentially talking about Nick Pivetta, Joe Musgrove coming off Tommy John, and Randy V\u00e1squez as the front of the rotation. That\u2019s not exactly the \u201csleep easy in March\u201d group the fanbase was promised.<\/p>\n
And it gets stranger.<\/p>\n
Padres\u2019 choice on Mason Miller only deepens the mystery around their rotation<\/p>\n
From Alden Gonzalez of ESPN: <\/a>\u201dPadres manager Craig Stammen said they\u2019ll keep Mason Miller, Adri\u00e1n Morej\u00f3n, and David Morgan in the bullpen rather than stretching them out as starters.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a risky proposition health-wise and performance-wise,\u201d Stammen said.<\/p>\n So yes, the Padres are very much still in the market for starting pitching.<\/a> They\u2019re also, reportedly, listening to offers on Pivetta \u2014 their best healthy starter and the guy who just put together the season they were dreaming on when they signed him. Connect those dots and it starts to look less like a plan and more like a flow chart drawn in pencil.<\/p>\n On paper, this is where you\u2019d expect Mason Miller to come in as the big swing.<\/a> If you\u2019re really open to moving Pivetta, the logical counterweight is converting Miller or Morej\u00f3n into the rotation like many assumed was at least on the table. Especially after the recent bullpen adds: Ty Adcock and Daison Acosta, two fliers that scream \u201cwe\u2019re building depth around something.\u201d<\/p>\n