Fernando Tatís Jr.

CTL-E-5978 · Person · other · 2019–present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07214 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5978.

Fernando Tatís Jr., born 2 January 1999 in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, is the San Diego Padres' right fielder and the son of former major leaguer Fernando Tatís. He debuted in 2019 and quickly became one of the game's most dynamic players, leading the National League with 42 home runs in 2021 and signing a 14-year, $340 million contract that February. In August 2022, Major League Baseball suspended him 80 games under the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program after a positive test for Clostebol. He returned in 2023, moved to right field and won Gold Glove and Platinum Glove honors for his defense. In 2026 he remained San Diego's lineup fixture — 25 home runs, 83 RBI and a team-leading 38 stolen bases — and played right field through the Padres' October run to the Division Series. CTL stages him as an Afro-Dominican ballplayer; individual descent documentation is named as a gap below.

The record

• Also known as: El Niño

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 4 — 747 Program, Wave 10; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Fernando Tatís Jr. entity in the live graph at 3,683 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5978 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1110 (Baseball Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Afro-Dominican (PROVISIONAL) — Dominican-born (San Pedro de Macorís, the Afro-Dominican sugar-coast city documented in Kurlansky's The Eastern Stars and NPR coverage) player documented at the contextual level. GAP: no source retrieved in this pass states Tatís's African descent individually or quotes a self-identification; tier held at Provisional until one is filed. Vital status: LIVING — played right field for San Diego through its Division Series, eliminated 7–8 October 2026 (Associated Press). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): 2026 regular season (Sportradar Padres leaders): 25 HR, 83 RBI, 38 SB (team leader). Career anchors: NL-leading 42 HR in 2021; 80-game MLB suspension, August 2022 (league announcement). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons portrait of Tatís in a Padres uniform; no file page read at file-page level — CTL-PHOTO-001; CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5978-fernando-tatis-jr.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked — no matching CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). Coordinator verification pass (2026-10-16): one additional targeted search for individual-level Afro-Latino / African-descent documentation was run at assembly for this record; no citable individual-level source was found, so the Provisional cap and the named gap stand, pending a sourced document or a founder scope ruling (precedent: Romeo Santos, Census Intake Wave 3). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• Sportradar, San Diego Padres 2026 team leaders — Tatís (RF): 25 home runs (3rd on club), 83 RBI, team-leading 38 stolen bases in the 2026 regular season — https://sportradar.com/?q=2735793608177082549 (primary source · build store)
• Associated Press, 8 October 2026 — Tatís and the Padres were eliminated from the postseason by Milwaukee in four Division Series games — https://isp.netscape.com/sports/story/0001/20261008/f188af6ae60f8743b41e161adaa6ab0b (build store)
• Major League Baseball, announcement, 12 August 2022 — Tatís suspended 80 games under the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program following a positive test for Clostebol (adjudicated league discipline; stated neutrally). (build store)
• Padres Mission roundup, 15 October 2026 — summary of Tatís's 2026 season: 25 regular-season home runs plus two in the postseason, strongest production after the All-Star break — https://padresmission.com/forums/topic/98755-padres-roundup-oct-15-harveys-development-2027-rotation-playoff-plans/ (build store)

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