{"id":544278,"date":"2026-01-29T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/544278\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:36:15","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-xander-bogaerts-looks-to-build-on-strong-finish-to-last-season-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/544278\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: Xander Bogaerts looks to build on strong finish to last season in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Xander Bogaerts brought a winning track record to the San Diego Padres, but he struggled to get comfortable in San Diego. He was asked to move from shortstop to second base and he did so. Bogaerts then moved back to shortstop and the defensive uncertainty seems to have taken a toll on his offensive production. He had a solid second half of 2025 and Jeff Sanders of the San Diego Union-Tribune says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/01\/28\/padres-roster-review-xander-bogaerts-2-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he is the unquestioned shortstop going forward<\/a> after the Padres traded Leo De Vries to the Athletics at last year\u2019s trade deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xander Bogaerts brought a winning track record to the San Diego Padres, but he struggled to get comfortable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544279,"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-544278","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\/115979366152064177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544278","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=544278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}