The 25-year-old who was acquired from New York in the Juan Soto trade looked pretty good in a Cactus League game against the Angels on Friday, tossing 3.0 innings with four strikeouts. He gave up one run, a solo homer to Willie Calhoun, which is the only run he’s allowed over his first two appearances.
Now, technically the Padres open the regular season in less than three weeks with a 2-game series in Seoul against the Dodgers, but Musgrove and Darvish will handle those outings so the Friars don’t have to have their entire rotation set until the end of the month when they resume the regular season at Petco Park against the Giants.
From a sheer numbers standpoint it looks like Vasquez and Waldron are the choices. However, these are Cactus League numbers and Cactus League can be extremely weird. What these guys are doing in their bullpens and on back fields is every bit as important as what they do in exhibition games, and most of the time we don’t get to see those outings.
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