The Padres could get reinforcements for their starting rotation soon. Joe Musgrove is about to start a minor league rehab assignment.
The Padres are steamrolling into their weekend series at Petco Park against the Colorado Rockies. San Diego has gone 9-2 since the All-Star break, with all but three of those games coming against 1place teams. They are on a roll at the right time of the season. If there’s a question mark with this club right now it's in the starting pitching rotation.
“I'm throwing right now pretty free. I'm not overly concerned with, you know, hesitation in the in the delivery of the pitch,” says Musgrove. “But obviously it's, you know, it could pop back at any moment. So, I'm really being cautious of it.”Musgrove is scheduled to make a minor league rehab start on Sunday. He expects to throw 45-50 pitches. If that goes well, he would either make one more minor league outing, or rejoin the big league staff for the stretch run.
Musgrove says he wants to be able to go at least five innings at the big league level when he returns and recognizes, with the trade deadline additions to the relief corps, he doesn't have to go deep into games immediately.Fellow starter Michael King might also need a little more time away from the mound. He took a line drive off his calf in the 1st inning of his last start in Baltimore and was tough enough to complete six innings.
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