{"id":635969,"date":"2026-03-21T20:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635969\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:47:17","slug":"padres-to-select-ty-frances-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635969\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres To Select Ty France’s Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Padres have told first baseman Ty France<\/a> that he has made the Opening Day roster, the San Diego Union-Tribune\u2019s Kevin Acee<\/a> reports.\u00a0 France will need to have his contract officially selected before the Padres take the field on March 26, but the team has an open space on its 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

As per the terms of the minor league contract France signed last month, he\u2019ll earn a $1.35MM salary for making San Diego\u2019s roster.\u00a0 It also officially completes the full-circle nature of France\u2019s signing, as he was drafted by the Padres (as a 34th-round pick) in 2015 and he broke into the majors with the club in 2019.<\/p>\n

Now 31 years old, France returns to the Padres as the AL\u2019s reigning Gold Glove winner at first base, and with a track record as a pretty solid regular during his time with the Mariners.\u00a0 Over the last two seasons, however, France\u2019s offense has dipped to a subpar .245\/.312\/.363 over 1025 plate appearances with the Mariners, Twins, Mariners, and Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

Some big numbers in camp helped France earn his spot on the 26-man, and his selection also just about ensures that Sung-Mun Song will begin the season on the 10-day injured list.\u00a0 Song has been battling oblique tightness and only resumed swinging a bat this past week, so he\u2019ll need more time to get fully prepared for his debut in North American baseball.<\/p>\n

Song\u2019s injury created room for France, even if he\u2019ll join a crowded first base picture.\u00a0 Gavin Sheets<\/a> is ostensibly the starting first baseman but he probably won\u2019t face much left-handed pitching, allowing room for France, Miguel Andujar<\/a>, or newly-converted first baseman Nick Castellanos<\/a> (all righty bats) to get playing time.\u00a0 The DH spot is also a revolving door in San Diego, giving the team more leeway in finding at-bats for all of these players.<\/p>\n

As an Article XX(B) free agent, France has the ability to exercise the first of three opt-out dates in his minor league contract this weekend if the Padres didn\u2019t add him to the 40-man roster.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t known if France actually triggered his opt-out or if the Padres added him to the roster in advance of any decision, but the end result is that France is now sticking around in San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres have told first baseman Ty France that he has made the Opening Day roster, the San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,3197],"class_list":{"0":"post-635969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ty-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116269131523624445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635969","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=635969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}