Germán Márquez Makes Padres Debut

The first of many matchups this year for the divisional foes took place in Scottsdale and featured Giants ace Logan Webb taking on Germán Márquez in his first official game in a Padres uniform. Márquez struggled in the first, giving up three runs on four hits. The loud contact continued in the second, but he was able to work a 1-2-3 inning regardless, ending his day with 37 pitches.

His velocities were in line with his 2025 averages except for his slider, which sat at 91.4 on average compared to 88.8 last year. The new velocity allowed him to use it more like a cutter, throwing it more to lefties, and he was able to miss barrels with it. Most of the damage from the Giants came from Márquez leaving fastballs over the heart of the plate. There is certainly work to be done for the right-hander to earn a spot on the Padres roster come Opening Day, but the veteran still has plenty of time to get ramped up.

Padres’ bats mostly quiet

Logan Webb opened the game by hitting Padres’ leadoff hitter Jase Bowen. After striking out Bryce Johnson and Ramon Laureano looking, Ty France scorched a hanging Webb sweeper into left field for an RBI double. The 107.7 evit velocity was the hardest contact of any Padre and produced their only run of the day. Jose Miranda had a nice one-out double in the 5th but could not make it home.

Laureano hustled out a triple off of Tristan Beck in the 6th after Bryce Johnson got caught stealing. Sung Mun Song had a particularly rough day at the plate, generating only soft contact and a strikeout while leaving three runners on base, but was able to turn a nice double play in the 4th. Luis Campunsano was the designated hitter and the only Padres player to play the whole game, but he was only able to muster a weak single against Webb. The Padres finished with just five hits and no walks on the day.

The rest of the Padres’ arms

Garret Hawkins impressed again, touching 97 and earning a strikeout in a one, two, three, 3rd inning. Marco Gonzalez made another Spring Training appearance today and struggled once again. His velocity is up from his 2024 season, but the stuff simply was not good enough to fool Giants hitters. He was able to keep them scoreless in his first two innings, but gave up two runs after multiple hard-hit doubles in the 6th. Another candidate for earning a spot in the rotation, Gonzalez has not shown much promise early in Spring Training.

Ethan Routzahn came in for the 7th and gave up a walk, a weak single, and a sac fly before striking out Daniel Susac swinging to finish the inning. Justin Yeager did not have his best performance today, coming in for the 8th and giving up three straight rocket singles to start the inning. After making a defensive play at first to get an out, Yeager walked Nate Furman to load the bases once more and followed it up by giving up another hard-hit single to Christian Koss. After earning a pop-up to first, Yeager was pulled by Stammen in favor of Ryan Och, the left-handed sinker-baller. Och was able to get a weak flyout to finish the day for Padres pitchers.

Back to Peoria

The Friars will head back to their temporary home in Peoria to take on the Athletics tomorrow at 12:10 PST/1:10 MST. The game will be televised on Padres.TV as well as the MLB Network.

Jacob Larose

Jacob grew up with Padres season tickets and walls plastered with Khalil Greene memorabilia. He has dedicated all of his young professional career towards becoming baseball’s next AJ Preller, having already worked with minor league and college teams in different roles. He is always scouring the Baseball Savant page to find the next little nugget that might help his hometown Padres (or his fantasy baseball team).