{"id":72400,"date":"2024-05-05T18:04:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T22:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=72400"},"modified":"2024-05-05T18:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T22:04:18","slug":"joe-musgrove-heads-to-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/05\/joe-musgrove-heads-to-injured-list\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres Ace Heads to the Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Sunday&#8217;s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the San Diego Padres placed starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/musgrjo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Musgrove<\/a> on the 15-day injured list with triceps tendinitis. In his place, the Padres called up righty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/vasqura02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-05-05_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Randy V\u00e1squez<\/a> from Triple-A.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have made the following roster moves: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F0W9uusz3S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/F0W9uusz3S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Diego Padres (@Padres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Padres\/status\/1787206981071278429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to reporters, including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dennistlin\/status\/1787211164088471721\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dennis Lin of The Athletic<\/a>, the Padres view Musgrove&#8217;s injured list placement as precautionary. If he is out for the minimum of 15 days, Musgrove projects to miss just three starts. V\u00e1squez will make one of those starts, but the Padres are open to using bullpen games in Musgrove&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<h2>San Diego Padres Place Joe Musgrove on the Injured List<\/h2>\n<h3>Musgrove&#8217;s 2024 Struggles<\/h3>\n<p>While the Padres don&#8217;t think the issue is serious, there are some red flags indicating potential concern. First, Musgrove has struggled mightily this season after serving as one of San Diego&#8217;s best pitchers in recent years. In eight starts, the 31-year-old has tossed 41 innings and has given up a league-leading 10 homers and 29 earned runs.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, hitters have not been fooled by his pitches. Musgrove&#8217;s strikeout rate is down by almost four percent compared to his career average. Plus, hitters are making hard contact while not chasing pitches out of the strike zone.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Spencer Steer takes Joe Musgrove deep in the first! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EjgZUHDA3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/EjgZUHDA3E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Talkin\u2019 Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkinBaseball_\/status\/1785765349176086622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The effectiveness of Musgrove&#8217;s four-seam fastball represents a key contributor to his regression. Last year, the pitch had a run value of 8. This year, it has a run value of -8. The average velocity is only 0.6 mph less this season, but hitters have still teed off on it.<\/p>\n<h3>Is Musgrove Struggling Due To A Lingering Injury?<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if Musgrove&#8217;s struggles have anything to do with his elbow inflammation, but the Padres might be hoping so. If there is no serious injury present, the Padres likely hope a two-week rest could help Musgrove mentally, let alone physically.<\/p>\n<p>However, this injured list stint is just the latest for Musgrove. The California native has dealt with various injuries throughout his career, but perhaps a recent one might still be lingering. The Padres shut Musgrove down last season in late July, and he ended up finishing the year on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unfair to attribute his poor season to any injury, but it&#8217;s notable that Musgrove also struggled in spring training. He clearly struggled to recover from his shoulder issues last season and has not been a good pitcher since returning. It wouldn&#8217;t be surprising if shoulder issues are still impacting his performance while contributing to the latest elbow inflammation and triceps tendinitis.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres have a good offense that has <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/04\/two-time-batting-champ-padres\/\" target=\"_self\">improved greatly this weekend<\/a>. However, run prevention has been an issue. If improved, San Diego might be a serious postseason threat. Unfortunately, that&#8217;s unlikely to happen without a vintage Musgrove.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Michael McLoone-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Sunday&#8217;s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the San Diego Padres placed starter Joe Musgrove on the 15-day injured list with triceps tendinitis. In his place, the Padres called up righty Randy V\u00e1squez from Triple-A. We have made the following roster moves: pic.twitter.com\/F0W9uusz3S \u2014 San Diego Padres (@Padres) May 5, 2024 According to reporters, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4683,"featured_media":72405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1071,35],"tags":[1860],"class_list":["post-72400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-padres","category-mlb","category-news","tag-joe-musgrove"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}