The UT is reporting that the Padres scheduled Opening Day starter, Chris Young, will miss the big day at Petco Park on Monday due to shoulder soreness following his promising season debut in Arizona. Homegrown talent Kevin Correia will take the mound instead.
Young, lauded as one of the Padres veteran leaders, hasn’t started more than 20 games since 2007 due to injury, though in that time his annual salary has taken leaps and bounds from $600,000 in 2007 to $4.6M last year. You can’t blame the guy for the Albert Pujols liner he took to the face in ’08, but hopefully this isn’t the beginning of perpetual injury trouble for the Padres this year.
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sucks, hopefully just playing it safe…i think it was tightness, not necessarily soreness. not that it matters, just sayin
Oops, yeah, it is described as tightness, but hell, to call the guy off a Monday start on Friday due to tightness following his first major league start in 9 months? I’m putting a flag in the sand and saying there’s something more…
Placed on the 15-day DL yesterday…