{"id":34642,"date":"2025-07-30T15:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34642\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:39:07","slug":"yankees-to-acquire-austin-slater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34642\/","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>Slater is playing the season on a one-year, $1.75MM deal, though he\u2019s already tacked on $100K worth of incentives based on games played and plate appearances and could feasibly tack on another $175K by reaching 75 games played and 200 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Though he\u2019s not likely to step into an everyday role, Slater is an affordable means of complementing switch-hitting left fielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=doming002jas&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jasson Dominguez<\/a>, who\u2019s slashing .284\/.354\/.456 versus right-handed pitching but just .207\/.286\/.299 versus left-handed opponents. Much the same way that the Yankees acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rosaram01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amed Rosario<\/a> to platoon with new third baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcmahry01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ryan McMahon<\/a>, Slater can share time with Dominguez moving forward.<\/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":34643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[24781,49,48,26165,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-34642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-austin-slater","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-gage-ziehl","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}