{"id":32732,"date":"2025-07-30T15:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32732\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:31:10","slug":"yankees-to-acquire-austin-slater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32732\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees To Acquire Austin Slater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10:23am: Minor league righty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=ziehl-000gag&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gage Ziehl<\/a> is headed back to the White Sox, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JackCurryYES\/status\/1950578004775588218\" rel=\"nofollow\">Curry adds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>10:13am: The Yankees and White Sox are in agreement on a trade sending outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/slateau01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Austin Slater<\/a> from Chicago to New York, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JackCurryYES\/status\/1950574465659654365\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> Jack Curry of the YES Network.<\/p>\n<p>Slater, 32, is a reserve outfielder who\u2019s played all three spots and posted good numbers against left-handed pitching \u2014 both in 2025 and throughout his nine-year career in the majors. He\u2019s hitting .236\/.299\/.423 in 135 plate appearances this year, including .261\/.338\/.552 versus left-handers. In 1006 career plate appearances versus lefties, the righty-swinging Slater is a .270\/.362\/.436 hitter.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10:23am: Minor league righty Gage Ziehl is headed back to the White Sox, Curry adds. 10:13am: The Yankees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,30409,63,30410,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-32732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-austin-slater","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-gage-ziehl","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}