{"id":576141,"date":"2026-02-16T20:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/576141\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:28:13","slug":"ty-france-signs-deal-with-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/576141\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty France signs deal with Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to Dennis Lin of The Athletic, Ty France is expected to join the San Diego Padres\u2019 Spring Training camp as a non-roster invitee after signing a minor-league deal with the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">France, 31, has a career .262 batting average in seven big-league seasons with five organizations. He made his debut in the majors with the Padres in 2019 before being dealt to the Seattle Mariners at the following trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In 2025, France split time between the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays. He hit .257 in 490 combined at-bats with the two clubs. The first baseman was acquired by the Blue Jays to become a defensive replacement for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. His ability around the bag upgraded the Jays infield defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The veteran was honored for his elite fielding at first base by winning his first Gold Glove this past offseason. France led all first basemen with a +10 Outs Above Average (OAA) and recorded a .996 fielding percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Friars have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaslampball.com\/gaslamp-ball-staff-editorials\/53356\/padres-need-to-ignore-price-tag-and-sign-ty-france\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">added a reliable glove<\/a> to their infield mix. France will compete with Nick Castellanos, Miguel Andujar and Gavin Sheets for playing time at first base and designated hitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Dennis Lin of The Athletic, Ty France is expected to join the San Diego Padres\u2019 Spring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,58744,2231,2230,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-576141","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-breaking-news","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\/116082200171569622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576141","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=576141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}