Gary Sheffield Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===San Diego Padres=== After four seasons in Milwaukee, the Brewers traded Sheffield to the [[San Diego Padres]] for [[Ricky Bones]], [[JosΓ© Valentin]], and [[Matt Mieske]] on March 26, 1992. Sheffield faced his uncle [[Dwight Gooden]] for the first time in a Major League game on May 12, 1992, getting a hit in three at-bats. In his first [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] season, he contended for the [[Triple Crown (baseball)|Triple Crown]] for much of the year; while he missed out on the home run (33, two fewer than the leader, teammate [[Fred McGriff]]) and RBIs (100, nine fewer than leader [[Darren Daulton]]) titles, he won the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] batting title (the only one of the nine in Padre history not won by [[Tony Gwynn]]) with a .330 average. In 1993, he started the season by hitting 10 home runs and batting .295 and was traded in midseason to the [[Miami Marlins|Florida Marlins]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page