The San Diego Padres already have nine players on the injured list heading into Opening Day. Yu Darvish is on the restricted list.
The San Diego Padres have placed eight players on the injured list ahead of Opening Day, bringing their IL total to nine. Seven pitchers and two position players will begin the 2026 season on the IL for San Diego.
Yu Darvish, however, will not be one of them.. There were reports of him retiring and voiding the contract, but as of now, he hasn't made that decision. He has three years and $46 million remaining on his contract. "You may have seen an article, and although I am leaning towards voiding the contract, there’s still a lot that has to be talked over with the Padres so the finer details are yet to be decided," Darvish posted on social media this offseason. "Also I will not be announcing my retirement yet. Right now I am fully focused on my rehab for my elbow, and if I get to a point where I can throw again, I will start from scratch again to compete. If once I get to that point I feel I can’t do that, I will announce my retirement." Darvish's decision to go on the restricted list could save the Padres the $16 million he was owed in 2026, freeing up payroll space for San Diego.“Even though it looks good, we’ve got to be smart,” Padres manager Craig Stammen said of Adam. " ... We’ll see him sometime in April, most likely, if all things go the way they should go.”April. He was placed on the 60-day IL in February. He's expected to be back sometime in the middle of the season.Canning joined the Padres on a major league deal in February that guarantees him $2.5 million. He ruptured his Achilles last June andof this season. He'll be on the 15-day IL for now, but will factor into the team's rotation plans when he's healthy., ending his 2026 season before it began. He'll spend the year on the 60-day IL .Musgrove missed all of 2025 after undergoing Tommy John surgery in October 2024. He was expected to be back for the beginning of this season, but didn't bounce back from his March 4 exhibition start as expected. He'llshut down in spring training with an oblique injuryNoah Camras graduated from the University of Southern California in 2022 with a B.A. in Journalism and a minor in sports media studies. He was born and raised in Los Angeles and has extensively covered Southern California sports in his career. Noah is the publisher of Padres on SI after contributing as a writer and editor over the last three years.
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