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Fernando Gabriel Tatís Medina Jr., nicknamed “El Niño” or “Bebo”, is a Dominican professional baseball shortstop and outfielder for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball.

Tatís was born in San Pedro de Macoris, in the Dominican Republic. His father was already playing in his third year of professional baseball when Tatís was born, playing for the Cardinals at the time. He spent a lot of time in big league clubhouses and was very athletic, and held an interest in baseball from a young age. He often practiced with Robinson Cano, who is also from San Pedro de Macoris.

Tatís, a 6 ft 3 in, 217 lb (1.90 m, 98 kg) shortstop, is widely considered to be a five-tool player due to his various abilities. In his 2021 season, Tatís hit 42 home runs, the most in the National League that year and only the fifth Padre ever to hit 40+ home runs in a single season. His .282 batting average in 2021 was the highest among leaderboard-qualified Padre batters. Tatís is among the fastest players in baseball, posting an average sprint speed of 29.3 feet per second through his first three seasons and placing in the 98th percentile of all MLB baserunners in 2020.

Despite receiving praise for his athleticism and throwing range, Tatís has been criticized for committing errors at a high rate. In 2019, he committed 18 errors, the fifth-most in MLB that season. Although he committed only three errors in the shortened 2020 season and raised his fielding percentage 40 points to .984%, he committed 21 errors in 2021, the third-most in the league that year. Critics have alleged that Tatís’s highlight-reel defensive plays distract from his inconsistency on easy plays.

Tatís’s father, Fernando Sr., played third base in the major leagues from 1997 to 2010. His mother is named Maria. His younger brother, Elijah, was an infielder in the Chicago White Sox organization, signed in 2019. Tatís is the cover athlete of MLB The Show 21 and at age 22 the youngest player to be featured as the cover star.