Left-hander Adrián Morejón is working into a higher-leverage role; Yu Darvish appears set for start next week; left fielder Jurickson Profar returns to lineup
San Diego Padres pitcher Adrian Morejon throws against the Oakland A’s at Petco Park on Monday, June 10, 2024. He is healthy, throwing a new pitch more than any of his other pitches and ever evolving in his role.“I think I’m comfortable,” Morejón said through interpreter Danny Sanchez. “Maybe I haven’t had as much pitching experience because of injuries the last couple of years. But I’ve still had experience around the team, around a lot of the veteran guys.
“I think it might have been maybe a little bit of a problem as to why I wasn’t able to pitch consistently in the past,” Morejón said. “So that was a point of emphasis with , focusing on my secondary pitches and finding one that might work.” Morejón, still just 25, spent time on the injured list last season with three different maladies and ended up throwing just nine innings in the major leagues. He has long been beset by frequent injuries and has never thrown more than 65⅓ innings combined between the minors and majors.Morejón began the year as a longer reliever, getting more than six outs three times.
His knee was taped above and below to help with stability. He said the plan is to focus workouts on his quadriceps.
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