On the 60-day injured list with a left shoulder impingement to close the season, Adrian Morejon has a clean bill of health this offseason. He and fellow Cuban Michel Baez also have new marching orders: Prepare to start … again.
“We signed those guys as starters; we feel like they’re starters,” Padres General Manager A.J. Preller said Tuesday night. “… I think we gave them an opportunity to get to the big leagues last year out of the bullpen, one, to help our ‘pen because our ‘pen was struggling with those middle innings at that time, but to me also with those guys, a chance to get a taste of the major leagues and felt like that might be a way to get introduced to the highest level of competition.