{"id":862850,"date":"2026-06-12T19:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/862850\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T19:17:30","slug":"padres-designate-bryce-johnson-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/862850\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Designate Bryce Johnson For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/ajeustace2\" title=\"Posts by AJ Eustace\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AJ Eustace<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at June 12, 2026 1:19pm CDT  <\/p>\n<p>The Padres have designated outfielder <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=johnsbr03,johnso011bry,johnso010bry,johnso008bry&amp;search=Bryce+Johnson&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bryce Johnson<\/a><\/strong> for assignment, per a team announcement. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bogaexa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Xander Bogaerts<\/a><\/strong> is being reinstated from the paternity list. The team\u2019s 40-man roster stands at 39 with the move.<\/p>\n<p>This may conclude Johnson\u2019s second stint with San Diego, which first signed the former Giant to a minor league contract ahead of the 2024 season. He got into 47 games that year and hit just .206\/.286\/.238 (57 wRC+) with no home runs in 73 trips to the plate. Johnson opened 2025 in the Pirates organization, but the Padres <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/04\/padres-pirates-swap-brett-sullivan-bryce-johnson.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">brought him back<\/a> in a mid-April trade for catcher <strong>Brett Sullivan<\/strong>. The move worked out better than expected for the Padres, as the switch-hitting Johnson easily posted career-best numbers. Across 55 games and 84 trips to the plate, he slashed .342\/.383\/.434. Although he only hit one homer, Johnson managed a 135 wRC+.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By AJ Eustace | at June 12, 2026 1:19pm CDT The Padres have designated outfielder Bryce Johnson for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":862851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[141705,1266,62,67,132,68,31137],"class_list":["post-862850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-bryce-johnson","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-xander-bogaerts"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116738749218575532","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}