{"id":788115,"date":"2026-07-09T00:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788115\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T00:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:58:41","slug":"padres-select-luis-rengifo-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788115\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Select Luis Rengifo – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Padres announced they\u2019ve selected infielder Luis Rengifo<\/a> onto the big league roster. He takes the place of Samad Taylor<\/a>, who lands on the 10-day injured list with a right oblique strain. San Diego already had an opening on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

Rengifo quickly returns to the big leagues after being released by the Brewers last month. The switch-hitting utilityman signed a minor league deal with San Diego on June 26 and will make his team debut after just six games in Triple-A. Rengifo hit .320 with a couple homers in a brief stint with their top affiliate in El Paso. He hadn\u2019t produced at the big league level this season, batting .205\/.280\/.254 without a home run in 205 plate appearances for Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the second consecutive down year for Rengifo. He had just a .238\/.287\/.335 slash with nine longballs in 147 games for the Angels last season. Rengifo was an above-average hitter over the three seasons before that, running a .273\/.323\/.431 line between 2022-24. He hasn\u2019t been the same since undergoing season-ending wrist surgery in August \u201924. There haven\u2019t been any significant changes to his batted ball metrics, though, and he\u2019s swinging harder this year than he did in either of the previous two seasons.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee used Rengifo primarily at third base. He also made his first two MLB starts as a first baseman this season and played mostly second base with the Angels. He\u2019s not in the lineup tonight even with Manny Machado<\/a> day-to-day with a minor toe injury.\u00a0Sung-Mun Song<\/a> is starting at the hot corner with\u00a0Miguel Andujar<\/a> drawing in as the designated hitter against a right-handed starter in Arizona\u2019s\u00a0Jose Cabrera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Taylor\u2019s injury leaves the Padres without their primary left fielder for at least a week and a half. The offseason minor league signee has hit .330 and stolen six bases in 26 games since being called up in the wake of the Ram\u00f3n Laureano<\/a> injury. Although Taylor was striking out too often to keep up that kind of offensive pace, he\u2019d provided a much needed spark. Gavin Sheets<\/a> and\u00a0Jase Bowen<\/a> figure to split the left field work for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres announced they\u2019ve selected infielder Luis Rengifo onto the big league roster. He takes the place of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,33449,591,178294,85],"class_list":["post-788115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-luis-rengifo","tag-mlb","tag-samad-taylor","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}