{"id":634573,"date":"2026-04-28T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634573\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:30:15","slug":"slumping-mets-sign-outfielder-austin-slater-after-release-from-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/634573\/","title":{"rendered":"Slumping Mets sign outfielder Austin Slater after release from Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/austin-slater\/a94f3112-28dc-4fb4-a6d1-a73b5c738621\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"a94f3112-28dc-4fb4-a6d1-a73b5c738621\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Austin Slater<\/a> agreed Monday to a one-year contract with the slumping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/new-york-mets\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-york-mets\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Mets<\/a>, who designated Tommy Pham for assignment two weeks after calling him up.<\/p>\n<p>Slater gets a $1 million salary while in the major leagues and $210,000 if assigned to the minors. He can earn $100,000 in performance bonuses for plate appearances in the big leagues: $25,000 each for 150, 225, 300 and 375.<\/p>\n<p>Slater, 33, signed a minor league contract with Detroit on Feb. 12, hit .267 with one homer and four RBIs in 15 spring training games and was\u00a0released at his request on March 21. He signed with Miami on March 25 and hit .174 (4 for 23) with four walks and one RBI on sacrifice fly in 12 games, then was designated for assignment Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He refused an outright assignment to Triple-A Jacksonville and elected free agency on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Slater has a .247 average with 45 homers and 185 RBIs in 10 seasons with San Francisco (2017-24), Cincinnati (2024), Baltimore (2024), the Chicago White Sox (2025), the New York Yankees (2025) and Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Pham, 38, went 0 for 13 in nine games with the Mets after he was\u00a0called up on April 13.<\/p>\n<p>New York also claimed infielder Eric Wagaman off waivers from Minnesota and optioned him to Triple-A Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets have\u00a0lost 15 of 17 games\u00a0and began Monday tied with Philadelphia for the worst record in the major leagues at 9-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Outfielder Austin Slater agreed Monday to a one-year contract with the slumping New York Mets,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-634573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634573","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=634573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}