Padres notes: Darvish readiness to be assessed as WBC ends; Musgrove still aiming for April 6; Pomeranz down
Not long ago, it appeared Yu Darvish would line up as the Padres’ opening-day starter for a third straight season.
It appears Blake Snell is lined up to start opening day, based on the timing of his throwing program. Each team’s opening-day starter will be announced Friday at 9:15 a.m. PT on MLB Network. “Get him off a mound here for three or four innings or whatever it is soon thereafter,” manager Bob Melvin opined Tuesday afternoon of the possibility of Darvish not pitching again for Japan.
“They’re not going to swing,” Melvin said. “We don’t want any balls hit back to him. We don’t want him reacting. Everything went well with the analysis. So we’re good with getting him on a mound. But we’ll have some hitters stand in more so than anything.”
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