Garrett Cooper happy to play his part of the Padres' postseason push after playing the last six years with the Miami Marlins
would play his first game in the field at first base, leaving Cooper still looking for his first start since joining the Padres.“Anything can change,” Cooper said. “Getting into the game in the inning yesterday was to me like a start. You just take it day by day. If you’re in there, you’re in there. It’s the same preparation you do every day, so anyway to help the team win, facing a lefty or whoever. Just take it day by day and pitch by pitch.
“I can tell you that after being in Miami for six years, that was the loudest I’ve heard a stadium in the last six years,” Cooper said. “That kind of atmosphere definitely riles up the guys. You saw how quickly it changed, too.”The right-handed-hitting Cooper had a .256/.296/.426 batting line while starting 76 of the Marlins’ first 107 games, mostly at first base. The majority of his bats with the Padres figures to come as a DH against left-handed pitching and late in games off the bench.
Familiar faces are certainly helping Choi, a veteran of eight big-league seasons, acclimate in San Diego. He had big hug for, a teammate of his in Tampa Bay in 2021, as the rehabbing right-hander returned from Salt Lake on Sunday morning, and he counts fellow South KoreanChoi and Kim don’t know each other especially well. They cross paths during the offseason but separate paths to the majors means this is their first significant time together.
“I don’t worry about those kinds of things,” he said. “Just whenever my name is called, I just go out there and do my job and give my team solid at-bats. That’s what I’m focused on.”for Triple-A El Paso on Saturday, Wacha returned to San Diego to continue his progression back from the right shoulder inflammation that has sidelined him for more than a month.
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