TODAY: Morejón has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a left forearm strain. The Padres recalled righty Nabil Crismatt from the alternate training site to take Morejon’s spot on the active roster.
APRIL 11: Adrián Morejón left his start against the Rangers this afternoon in the first inning. The young left-hander has a forearm/elbow strain in his throwing arm, the Padres later told reporters (including Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune).
That’s an ominous sounding diagnosis, as forearm strains are often a precursor to Tommy John surgery. There’s no indication at this point Morejón will need to undergo that (or any other) procedure, but it seems he’ll require an injured list stint at the very least. Morejón, who broke into the majors as a swingman over the past two years, began this season as San Diego’s fifth starter.
While Morejón has only managed a 6.03 ERA over his first 31.1 MLB innings, a deeper look shows plenty more promise. The former high-profile international signee has been one of the game’s top prospects over the last four years, entering the season as Baseball America’s #75 overall farmhand. While Morejón has given up far too many home runs in his brief big league time, he’s also demonstrated an ability to miss bats and command the strike zone. His 26.1% strikeout rate, 12% swinging strike rate and 5.8% walk percentage are all better than league average, no small feat for a player who just turned 22 years old.
Should Morejón miss time, the Friars could turn to a handful of other young arms in his rotation spot until Dinelson Lamet is ready to return from injury. Top prospect MacKenzie Gore is widely expected to debut at some point in 2021, while former top ten pick Ryan Weathers already made his MLB debut and has been working out of the bullpen this year. Jordan Humphreys, whom the Padres claimed off waivers last month, is among the other starting pitcher options on the 40-man roster.
CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
This is my Last Resort
Suffocation
Combo Breaker!
No Breathing
Don’t give a (bleep) if I cut my arm bleeding!
This is my last resort
Injuries have been crazy through the start of this season. There’s about 25 of these posts every day that someone left a game or got placed on the IL
Pitchers should expect a rough year.
Increased workload.
Less sticky stuff.
Video back in dugout.
Extra innings rules.
Morejon cannot stay healthy. It’s plagued him throughout the minors. If this is something major he may get one more shot at the rotation.
Everyone is injured. This sure is fun.
Why is everyone getting hurt? They had a standard ST, right?
Theoretically while teams had a normal spring training players had an abnormal offseason in which they likely had to do most of their strength and conditioning work to get ready on their own and in (probably) many cases likely failed to do so
Weathers gets transferred into the rotation and Crismatt comes back up. Next man up.
Preller has done a great job of drafting pitchers.
I honestly root for them when they aren’t playing the Dodgers.
Impressive squad.
Hudson I think you get your wish – Crismat most likely with Weathers to rotation.
@ Longtimecoming
Even if Crismatt does come back up it will only be temporary. The Padres have I believe 4 pitchers on the IL who don’t have options left and are almost ready to go in Lamet, Johnson, Strahm and Altavilla. I would expect Strahm to come back as soon as he is healthy and give the Padres their long reliever and another LHP. But we will see.
Totall agree but have not seen anything about those guys’ timelines. If Lamet doesn’t take the start, Weathers will for 1 turn. Then Lamet moves Weathers back to pen. Strahm comes back to pen which moves Weathers either back to rotation – if Paddack is out – or to AAA to stay stretched out if Paddack corrects. A lot of dominoes that may start falling including a trade of one of those out of options guys.
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Looks like Strahm is day-to-day and Johnson is currently pitching at the alternate site.
Never a good time for an injury, but the Padres just started a 17 games in 17 days stretch on Friday. Probably the worst time for this to happen.
Weathers was already going to be in the rotation during this stretch of 17 consecutive games. Either Gore will be called up or Lamet will be hurried back.
wish the kid best of luck and hope a lil time off fixes his issues, but i’m worried that he is going to need tjs, i’ve lost count on how many articles start off as “ forearm tightness” and the next day player x is getting tjs.
Starting pitchers should see their value increase. Hopefully, he is ok.
Everybody needs to max out the injuries on your MLB The Show Sliders Setting if you want to keep it realistic
Pitcher injuries are like death and taxes.
But what are they doing differently in SD?
Their pitchers seem to get hurt more than most teams.
Luckily they have the depth to replace a rotation arm.
I think it’s mostly just pitchers throwing at high velocity – not anything special about SD. Morejon’s fastball can reach 98, and that is just a lot of stress to put on your elbow.
Have you not been paying attention to the Angels for the last ten years or so?
Didn’t the Padres just throw a no-no? I think it’s time for you to change your name.
Good call.
Angels and Orioles are on a level of their own.
Every prospect would be better off if they wouldn’t rank these kids. Morejon could never live up to the hype yet they just keep hyping him and keep hyping him.
As much as I want to see Gore pitch in the big leagues, I think the proper move here is to insert Weathers into that slot until Lamet is completely ready. Lamet reportedly threw 3.2 innings and 56 pitches last time out so he’s close but not quite built up yet.
Weathers has looked great so far and it almost feels inevitable that he’s eventually going to take Paddack’s spot in the rotation. Might as well audition Weathers for a role in the rotation now. Something is clearly wrong with Paddack’s fastball and it’s amplified by him being a 2 pitch pitcher. Unless he can fix it soon they’re going to need to send him down to work on it.
Padres have made many prospect trades to strengthen their MLB team but for Pads fans they better hope the top 5-6 prospects they kept will develop into contributing regulars for this team to continue as a LT-contender. LAD, TB Rays, & Atl Braves are very adept at plugging in young players from their deep farm systems to balance out their rosters/payrolls, which allows them to be strong contenders on a consistent basis. If Pads top prospects can develop into regular players for them, that would allow them to trade some of their current big leaguers in 2-4 yrs for more prospects. This would keep their window to contend open in perpetuity. Last point-Padres won’t keep up with LAD until they begin to consistently add 2-4 strong prospects each yr to their MLB roster.
Padres has the worst arms in the outfield in MLB baseball according to reports for 2021.
I can see that. While Myers has a plus arm, Grisham’s arm is average at best and Pham has a partially torn UCL. I would still rather have these guys than Hunter Renfroe even with his cannon.