By SDCN Editor
San Diego, CA–The San Diego Padres have signed outfielder and first baseman Connor Joe to a one-year contract for the 2025 season, the Padres announced.
Joe, 32, joins the Padres after spending the 2023 and 2024 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates, where he hit .228 (83-for-364) with 22 doubles, one triple, nine home runs, 36 RBI, and 49 runs scored across 123 games in 2024. Last season, the 6-foot, 205-pound infielder/outfielder made the Pirates’ Opening Day roster for the second straight season and fourth overall nod (also with Colorado in 2022 and San Francisco in 2019) and was named the Opening Day starter in right field. The San Diego, Calif. native hit .318 (7-for-22) from the pinch for the fourth-best mark in the National League among pinch hitters (minimum 25 plate appearances). Defensively, he made 79 appearances (49 starts) at first base, 44 appearances (35 starts) in right field, and six starts in left field, posting a .992 fielding percentage (four errors, 500 total chances).
He has posted a .242 career average (333-for-1375) with a .337 OBP, 82 doubles, nine triples, 35 home runs, 141 RB,I and 192 runs scored in 438 Major League games across stops with the Giants (2019), Rockies (2021-22) and Pirates (2023-24).
The Poway High School alum was drafted by the Pirates in the first round (39th overall) of the 2014 First-Year Player Draft out of the University of San Diego, where he was named the West Coast Conference Player of the Year and a Golden Spikes Award Semifinalist as a junior in 2014 after batting .367 and leading the conference with 51 RBI.
