XANDER BOGAERTS<\/p>\n
Position(s): Shortstop
\nBats \/ Throws: Right \/ Right
\n2026 opening day age: 33
\nHeight \/ Weight: 6-foot-2 \/ 218 pounds
\nHow acquired: Signed as a free agent in December 2022
\nContract status: Will make $25 million in the fourth year of his 11-year, $280 million deal; will make $25 annually through 2033.
\nfWAR in 2025: 3.2
\nKey 2025 stats: .263 AVG, .328 OBP, .391 SLG, 11 HRs, 53 RBIs, 63 runs, 48 walks, 94 strikeouts, 20 steals (136 games, 552 plate appearances)<\/p>\n
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STAT TO NOTE<\/p>\n
8 \u2014 Bogaerts\u2019 outs above average, according to Statcast, a career high and an effort that ranked in the top 93rd percentile among all fielders in 2025. Bogaerts\u2019 strong defensive metrics are especially noteworthy because he\u2019d moved off shortstop in 2024 to allow a younger, more athletic Ha-Seong Kim to man the position only to return to shortstop in 2025 after Kim had departed as a free agent.<\/p>\n
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TRENDING<\/p>\n
Up \u2014 Three years into his stay with the Padres, Bogaerts\u2019 OPS (.738) pales in comparison to his days in Boston (.814 OPS), where he was a five-time Silver Slugger and a four-time All-Star. Of course, Bogaerts\u2019 stint in San Diego has been marred by a variety of injuries. His first year, the resurfacing of a chronic thumb injury did not send him to the injured list, but it did contribute to a long drought (.671 OPS over 112 games). Then a shoulder fracture limited Bogaerts to 111 games in 2024 (.688 OPS) and a foul ball off his left foot broke a bone in late August, sending Bogaerts to the shelf amid something of a rebound season in San Diego. Bogaerts\u2019 on-base percentage, slugging, OPS and expected slugging were all up a tick in 2025, with a .413 expected slugging serving as his best mark since a .470 expected slugging in Boston in 2021. Bogaerts returned from the injured list during the final homestand, homered in his second-to-last game and took a five-game hitting streak into the postseason. In the NL Wild Card Series, Bogaerts went 4-for-12 with a double and three strikeouts, the last looking on a questionable call in the ninth inning of a Game 3 loss. The Padres brought the go-ahead run to the plate after Bogaerts\u2019 out. After the season, Bogaerts was fined an undisclosed amount for his part in a verbal confrontation with umpires as they left Wrigley Field through the visiting dugout.<\/p>\n
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2026 OUTLOOK<\/p>\n
With prospect Leo De Vries traded away from a thinned-out system, Kim now in Atlanta and Jackson Merrill in center field, Bogaerts is the unquestioned starter at shortstop for the foreseeable future. While the bat has not lived up to the reputation he built in Boston, Bogaerts at least showed in 2025 that he was nowhere near needing to move off shortstop.<\/p>\n
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Xander Bogaerts #2 of the San Diego Padres winces after falling while batting against the Chicago Cubs during Game 3 of the NL Wild Card Series at Wrigley Field on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Meg McLaughlin \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)
\nROSTER RANKINGS<\/p>\n
8. SS Xander Bogaerts
\n9. LHP Adri\u00e1n Morej\u00f3n
\n10. RHP Jeremiah Estrada
\n11. RHP Jason Adam
\n12. 2B Jake Cronenworth
\n13. RHP Joe Musgrove
\n14. RHP Randy Vasquez
\n15. OF Gavin Sheets
\n16. LHP JP Sears
\n17. RHP Yu Darvish
\n18. RHP Bradgley Rodriguez
\n19. RHP David Morgan
\n20. C Freddy Fermin
\n21. LHP Wandy Peralta
\n22. C Luis Campusano
\n23. LHP Yuki Matsui
\n24. INF Sung-Mun Song
\n25. RHP Matt Waldron
\n26. OF Bryce Johnson
\n27. RHP Ron Marinaccio
\n28. RHP Bryan Hoeing
\n29. LHP Kyle Hart
\n30. RHP Jhony Brito
\n31. INF Will Wagner
\n32. OF Tirso Ornelas
\n33. RHP Garrett Hawkins
\n34. RHP Miguel Mendez
\n35. RHP Daison Acosta
\n36. RHP Ty Adcock
\n37. RHP Alek Jacob
\n38. INF Mason McCoy<\/p>\n
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