The Padres' likely opening-day center fielder hits second homer in as many days, will be with club when it departs for South Korea
Because the hype was not bubbling over quite yet, Jackson Merrill on Tuesday homered for a second straight game. He certainly did not need the blasts to make the team. Based on what is being said in and around the Peoria Sports Complex and all over the Cactus League, Merrill will be the Padres’ starting center fielder when the team opens the season March 20 against the Dodgers in Seoul, South Korea. “I can tell you Jackson Merrill is going to Korea,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said with a smile.
It wasn’t his best outing of the spring, but perhaps it may be the most telling when the big-league coaching staff considers him for a call-up this year, if the 23-year-old is not on Wednesday’s plane to South Korea. “I didn’t feel like was very good,” said Thorpe, the youngest of the arms received in the Juan Soto trade. “But the results speak otherwise obviously. You’ll take four scoreless all the time. It’s good to have that now, to learn how to pitch with not your best stuff.
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