RAM\u00d3N LAUREANO<\/p>\n
Position(s): Outfield
\nBats \/ Throws: Right \/ Right
\n2026 opening day age: 31
\nHeight \/ Weight: 5-foot-10 \/ 203 pounds
\nHow acquired: Via trade with the Baltimore Orioles in July 2025
\nContract status: Will make $6.5 million in 2025 after the Padres exercised a team option; will be a free agent after the season.
\nfWAR in 2025: 3.0
\nKey 2025 stats: .281 AVG, .342 OBP, .512 SLG, 24 HRs, 76 RBIs, 72 runs, 35 walks, 119 strikeouts, 7 steals (132 games, 488 plate appearances)<\/p>\n
STAT TO NOTE<\/p>\n
.624 \u2014 Laureano\u2019s slugging percentage against breaking pitches in 2025, the best he\u2019d ever done against that pitch group and nearly double last year\u2019s effort (.333). All told, told Laureano hit 10 home runs off breaking pitches \u2014 four off sliders, three off curveballs, two off sweepers and one off a knuckle curve \u2014 or as many as he had over the previous four years combined.<\/p>\n
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TRENDING<\/p>\n
Up \u2014 The Astros\u2019 16th-round pick out of Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in 2014, Laureano was traded to the Athletics in 2017, debuted in 2018 and paired 24 homers with an .860 OPS over 123 games in the majors in 2019. The ensuing five seasons saw Laureano serve an 80-game steroid suspension, post a .709 OPS over five partial seasons and bounce from Oakland to Cleveland to Atlanta. Laureano was at least productive in a 67-game stint with the Braves in 2024 (10 HRs, .832 OPS), but he was still non-tendered after the season. He then signed a $4 million deal with the Orioles that included a team option for 2026. There, Laureano proceeded to turn back the clock to his second season, pairing an .884 OPS with 15 homers over 82 games. In fact, the only thing that slowed Laureano before the trade to San Diego \u2014 with 1B\/OF Ryan O\u2019Hearn for six 2024 draftees \u2014 was the some two weeks he lost to an ankle sprain. The move to a contender seemed to spur on Laureano, who hit seven homers and posted a .935 OPS in August to more than pull his weight. But he cooled in September (.646 OPS) and then fractured the index finger on his right hand on a hit-by-pitch on the last homestand, effectively ending his season just as the Padres were preparing to leave for Wrigley Field for the NL Wild Card Series. Without the right-handed-hitting Laureano to balance out a lefty-heavy bottom of the lineup, the Padres hit .189\/.243\/.305 in falling in three games to the Cubs.<\/p>\n
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2026 OUTLOOK<\/p>\n
Laureano enters his walk year as the unquestioned starter in left field and looking to build off the second-best season of his career. He\u2019ll also help spell Jackson Merrill in center field and maybe even Fernando Tatis Jr. in right on occasion.<\/p>\n
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![\"Manny](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SUT-l-padres-0810-049.jpg\")
Manny Machado #13 and Ramon Laureano #5 of the San Diego Padres celebrate after Laureano hit a walk-off single against the Boston Red Sox during the tenth inning at Petco Park on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025 in San Diego, CA. (Meg McLaughlin \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)
\nROSTER RANKINGS<\/p>\n
7. OF Ram\u00f3n Laureano
\n8. 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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