Padres star joins pitcher Joe Musgrove in underwater training program run by former Marine Raiders; 'I love the silence it brings me'
It’s a little after 9 a.m. on a January morning and Joe Musgrove is floating face down, motionless in the deepest part of a giant swimming pool.
The two teammates are pushing themselves physically and mentally in a weekly underwater training class taught by former Marine Raiders. As they compete against and work with the unforgiving foes of water and doubt, there is common ground in striving for growth.“He’s having to face something that he never has or never wanted to face,” Musgrove said of Tatis, who is attempting to turn the page on the darkest year of his young life. “But he’s handling it really well.
Padres stars working out together underwater as they prepare for highly anticipated 2023 baseball season.Tatis missed the first four-plus months of the season because of a wrist injury sustained in a motorcycle accident. He missed the final two months due to a suspension after testing positive for a performance enhancing drug.
Fernando Tatis Jr. walks across the bottom of a La Jolla pool while carrying weights, part of his offseason training program alongside pitcher Joe Musgrove.In September, Tatis underwent shoulder surgery, something the Padres had encouraged a year earlier. Wrist surgery in October revised the initial procedure done seven months earlier.
“I don’t think so,” he said, shaking his head at the suggestion. “To me it’s just baseball. This is the thing that I’ve been doing since I had memory. The same time I learned how to walk, I was swinging a bat. On the baseball side, I’m definitely not scared of what’s going to happen or how my body is going to react. I mean, I had one arm the last year I was healthy and I still found a way to play baseball in the best way possible.
“I’ve seen baseball all my life,” Tatis said. “From the inside of the field, from the outside of the field. I know what people are gonna talk about out there and what people are gonna be talking about on the field. It depends on me — how I’m gonna approach it, how I’m gonna take it. And it’s gonna be up to me if I’m going to answer back. ... The answer is gonna go out by itself. It’s going to be just me playing and being back on the field.
The pool workout is more than 30 minutes in when one of the instructors announces the final “warm-up” exercise. The morning has already seen the participants hold their breath for intervals of 15, 30 and 50 seconds before a fourth time in which they remained submerged for as long as they could. The bulk of the workout consists of a series of swims and underwater walks while carrying dumbbells, including one impromptu race between Tatis and Musgrove.Tatis grinned. “All right, let’s go,” he said before dipping underwater, grabbing his weights and taking strong, quick strides on his way to victory.
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