Padres expect to determine next step for starting pitcher Yu Darvish this weekend, with a rehab start seeming like the next step
Padres pitcher Dylan Cease returns to the Padres dugout with athletic trainer Mark Rogow during Wednesday’s game against the Yankees. DENVER — The Padres’ “Core 6” got back in full force Friday for the first time in 25 games when Jake Cronenworth returned from a monthlong stint on the injured list necessitated by a fractured rib in his right side.
That he would return for this series has been anticipated for more than a week. The bone is not completely healed, but it is not uncommon for players to return before a bone is fully healed. “I think it was just more or less just getting to a point in the timeline that the bone was healed enough,” Cronenworth said. “… I don’t know if I could have come back earlier, but just from, like, the bone healing standpoint, I think it’s if you still have some pain doing something the bone is still moving. So if I did something to reaggravate it instead of just waiting for it to start healing and it stops moving, I think that’s what they wanted to get, so that when I came back I had no setback.” Croneworth will wear an undershirt that has padding on the sides, similar to what football players wear under their pads. The shirt Cronenworth is wearing has velcro affixed to it where he will put an extra pad when he bats but remove it when he plays second base. The only real risk of reinjury is if he is hit in the ribs again. Cronenworth was initially hurt on April 6 when he was struck by a 93 mph fastball. He hit a home run the next game but left in a great deal of pain after two at-bats in the following game.Center fielder Jackson Merrill went on the injured list April 8 with a strained hamstring and missed 24 games before returning Tuesday. First baseman Luis Arraez missed six games after suffering a concussion on April 20.“It’s been a while,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said in regard to Cronenworth and the Padres not having been at full strength for over a month. “… It feels great. We started the year playing well and tested our depth early in a lot of different ways. … They’re all back. And here we go.”“It feels good,” Cease said. “No pain. I had never had that before, so I didn’t know what to expect. No cramping. I think it’s fine.” Cease had his best start of the season Wednesday against the Yankees, allowing his first hit with one out in the seventh inning before experiencing cramping in his forearm two batters later. “Not an issue,” Shildt said. “Not an issue afterward. Not an issue with strength, not an issue with flexibility. … There is nothing beyond that feeling he had that we got ahead of, hopefully, and it’s nothing that is going to be recurring.”was said to have looked good while throwing 48 pitches over three innings in a simulated game Thursday and to have felt good afterward. Shildt said the Padres will decide Saturday what the next step is. It appears Darvish, who was shut down in spring training with elbow inflammation, is on track to make a rehab start early next week.The Padres have been extremely cautious with the 38-year-old Darvish, and he has largely driven the pace of his rehab. “I think we’re gonna trust a guy who has 200 professional wins and 3,000 career strikeouts to create that path,” Shildt said. “He’s definitely getting closer. We’ll catch up with him tomorrow and see when his is — whether it’s Sunday or Monday — and what takes place after that. … If Darvish got to 65 pitches and we know the next he could get to 80, we could consider that. I don’t think, but it could end up being the case where he we feel like it’s good he’s built up to 80, 85 for his first outing. That’s what the conversations will be the next couple days.”San Diego’s newest overseas nonstop flight takes offSan Diego’s largest hotel undertakes mammoth remodel — including its 40th-story barElton John at Petco Park: 13 tips if you are going to Friday’s San Diego concert‘Un Americano!’ San Diego Catholics celebrate Pope Leo XIV’s election — and his local tiesRobert Prevost, first pope from US in history of the Catholic Church, takes the name Leo XIV
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