{"id":584796,"date":"2026-04-15T02:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584796\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:01:08","slug":"padres-place-nick-pivetta-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584796\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Place Nick Pivetta On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Padres placed starter\u00a0Nick Pivetta<\/a> on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to April 13, with elbow inflammation. Reliever\u00a0Alek Jacob<\/a> is up from Triple-A El Paso to take the open spot on the pitching staff.<\/p>\n

Pivetta left Sunday\u2019s win over Colorado after three perfect innings due to elbow stiffness. Manager Craig Stammen told reporters (including Annie Heilbrunn of The San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a>) that the team is awaiting imaging results. That\u2019ll eventually shed some light on his injury and a recovery timeline.<\/p>\n

For now, Pivetta joins\u00a0Joe Musgrove<\/a> and\u00a0Griffin Canning<\/a> on the injured list. Musgrove has yet to throw from a mound. Canning is on a rehab assignment but will probably need close to the full 30 days in his return from last season\u2019s Achilles tear.<\/p>\n

Matt Waldron<\/a> also began the season on the injured list, but he\u2019s likely to return this week. The out-of-options knuckleballer will replace Pivetta in the starting five, Stammen said (relayed by AJ Cassavell of MLB.com<\/a>). Michael King<\/a> will go tonight, with\u00a0Randy V\u00e1squez<\/a> and\u00a0Walker Buehler<\/a> theoretically on schedule for the next two days. Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez<\/a> would be on track for Friday\u2019s series opener against the Angels. Pivetta\u2019s spot would come back around on Saturday. The Padres could keep Waldron on the injured list until then if they want an extra reliever in the interim.<\/p>\n

Pivetta\u2019s health is the big picture concern. He\u2019s coming off a sixth place finish in NL Cy Young balloting. That earned him the Opening Day nod this season. Pivetta has recorded 24 strikeouts over his first 16 innings, allowing a 4.50 earned run average. In addition to his evident importance to the San Diego staff, he\u2019s one of the better potential free agent pitchers in next winter\u2019s class. Pivetta can opt out of the remaining two years and $32MM on his contract, which would be an easy call if he\u2019s healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres placed starter\u00a0Nick Pivetta on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to April 13, with elbow inflammation. Reliever\u00a0Alek…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[217511,104693,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-584796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-matt-waldron","9":"tag-nick-pivetta","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}