Ty France
Tyler Lawrence France is an American professional baseball third baseman for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball.Career
France attended South Hills High School in West Covina, California. After high school, he played college baseball from 2013-2015 at San Diego State University. In 2015, his junior season, he hit.336 with four home runs and 49 RBIs in 64 games, and finished his San Diego State career with a.337/.428/.470 line across three seasons. He was drafted in the 34th round, 1017th overall, of the 2015 MLB draft by the San Diego Padres and signed with them for a $100,000 signing bonus.
He made his professional debut in 2015 with the Class A Short Season Tri-City Dust Devils, hitting.294/.425/.391/.816 with 1 home run and 36 RBI. He split the 2016 season between the Class A Fort Wayne TinCaps and the Class A-Advanced Lake Elsinore Storm, hitting.271/.387/.420/.807 with 14 home runs and 73 RBI. He split his 2017 season between Lake Elsinore and the Double-A San Antonio Missions, hitting.278/.353/.373/.726 with 5 home runs and 58 RBI. He split the 2018 season between San Antonio and the Triple-A El Paso Chihuahuas, hitting.267/.355/.464/.819 with 22 home runs and 96 RBI.
The Padres added him to their 40-man roster after the 2018 season.
He opened the 2019 season back with El Paso. On April 24, he was called up to the major league roster for the first time. He made his debut on April 26, hitting a pinch hit single in his first at bat.
France was called up again to the Padres big league club on August 16, 2019. At that time he was batting.399 with their minor league affiliate El Paso Chihuahuas. Although he had wanted to end his AAA season batting.400 he most likely will remain with the big league club for the duration of 2019 and end.001 point shy of the elusive.400 mark.
