Will Wagner is set to return to the big-leagues.<\/p>\n
The <\/a>San Diego Padres<\/a> announced Sunday that they have recalled Wagner from triple-A El Paso, bringing the infielder into the fold after acquiring him from the Toronto Blue Jays at this year’s trade deadline.<\/p>\n Wagner went straight to triple-A after the trade, and in 17 games with El Paso, slashed .270\/.333\/.405 with two home runs and 17 RBIs.<\/p>\n San Diego landed Wagner in exchange for catching prospect Brandon Valenzuela, who has a .683 OPS through 11 games with the Blue Jays’ triple-A Buffalo affiliate.<\/p>\n Before the trade, the 27-year-old Wagner had split time between Toronto and Buffalo. In 40 games with the Blue Jays in 2025, he hit .237 with seven doubles and 15 walks.<\/p>\n Toronto originally acquired Wagner from the Houston Astros as part of the return for Yusei Kikuchi at the 2024 trade deadline. <\/p>\n Now, Wagner will join the NL West-leading Padres as they wrap up a three-game set against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n “I just want to help contribute to the team as best as I can. Whenever my name’s called, be ready,” Wagner said when asked about his goals in San Diego. “Be ready to play second, first, third, wherever they want me, I’ll be ready.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Wagner is set to return to the big-leagues. The San Diego Padres announced Sunday that they have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-96232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}