{"id":529199,"date":"2026-01-20T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/529199\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:17:13","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-gavin-sheets-could-have-bigger-role-in-26-jackson-merrill-should-be-commended-for-his-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/529199\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: Gavin Sheets could have bigger role in \u201826; Jackson Merrill should be commended for his commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gavin Sheets was given the opportunity to make the San Diego Padres roster in Spring Training last season, and he took full advantage of it. He quickly become a fan favorite and chants of \u201cHoly Sheets!\u201d could be heard throughout Petco Park during his at-bats. Sheets even earned himself the nickname \u201cDairy Bonds\u201d thanks some timely and powerful homeruns. Jeff Sanders of the San Diego Union-Tribune looks at what Sheets has done since becoming a member of the Padres and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/01\/19\/padres-roster-review-gavin-sheets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">what he can do during the 2026 season<\/a> to build on the success of last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gavin Sheets was given the opportunity to make the San Diego Padres roster in Spring Training last season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,38806,2231,2230,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-529199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-padres","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-padres","13":"tag-san-diego-padres-daily-links","14":"tag-san-diego-padres-analysis-commentary","15":"tag-san-diego-padres-news","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115928094926415583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}