{"id":579467,"date":"2026-02-18T15:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/579467\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:48:29","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-padres-deals-become-official-tirso-ornelas-designated-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/579467\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: Padres deals become official; Tirso Ornelas designated for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">San Diego Padres President of Baseball Operations and General Manager A.J. Preller has shown a willingness to take advantage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/02\/17\/notebook-padres-continue-to-make-it-work-with-creative-inexpensive-contracts-ty-frances-chance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">veteran players on low-cost deals<\/a>. Walker Buehler was the latest signing, but prior to that he added Griffin Canning, German Marquez and Ty France. The addition of France makes the competition for reps at first base and designated hitter more intense as he will compete with the incumbent Gavin Sheets as well as Miguel Andujar and Nick Castellanos for playing time and a roster spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres President of Baseball Operations and General Manager A.J. Preller has shown a willingness to take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579468,"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-579467","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\/116092424700854817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579467","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=579467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}