{"id":473227,"date":"2026-02-17T05:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473227\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:23:06","slug":"reports-padres-signing-inf-ty-france-to-minor-league-deal-wkzo-everything-kalamazoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473227\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Padres signing INF Ty France to minor-league deal | WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran infielder Ty France is reuniting with the San Diego Padres, signing \u200ba minor league contract \u200cwith the team that drafted him in 2015, multiple media outlets reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Per the reports, \u200cFrance\u2019s \u200bdeal includes an \u2060invitation to major \u2060league spring training. The signing is pending a physical.<\/p>\n<p>France, 31, won his first \u200bGold Glove in 2025 while playing first base \u2060with the Minnesota \u2060Twins and Toronto Blue \u200bJays. He also hit .257 with \u200bseven home runs and 52 \u200cRBIs in 138 games.<\/p>\n<p>A seven-year veteran, France\u2019s best season came in 2022 with \u2060the Seattle Mariners, when he batted .274 with a career-high 20 home \u2060runs \u200cand 83 RBIs and \u2060earned his lone \u200bAll-Star \u200cselection.<\/p>\n<p>In 840 games with \u200bthe Padres, \u2060Mariners, Cincinnati Reds, Twins and Blue Jays, France is a .262 hitter with 81 home runs and 364 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field \u200bLevel Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran infielder Ty France is reuniting with the San Diego Padres, signing \u200ba minor league contract \u200cwith the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-473227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}