Padres, Pirates, Mets officially complete three-team deal
The San Diego Padres brought right-hander Joe Musgrove to his hometown team Tuesday, adding yet another starting pitcher in a seven-player trade involving the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Mets.
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SAN DIEGO It turns out that Joe Musgrove was prescient when, at 18, he got a tattoo of a baseball with the San Diego Padres logo in it, along with his last name and the year he was born.
His grandmother chewed him out, telling the teenager he had no idea if the Padres would draft him out of Grossmont High in suburban El Cajon. They didn t. A decade later, though, it s all good.
SAN DIEGO (AP) Joe Musgrove grew up a San Diego Padres fan and now the right-hander gets to pitch for his hometown team, which in less than a month has remade itself into perhaps one of the best in the major leagues. The Padres brought Musgrove home Tuesday, adding yet another starting pitcher via a seven-player trade involving the.