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Jorge CastilloJul 30, 2025, 11:30 AM ET
- ESPN shot reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post earlier covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024.
The Yankees person acquired outfielder Austin Slater from the White Sox, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan connected Wednesday, arsenic New York continues to bolster a roster presently without superstar outfielder Aaron Judge up of Thursday's commercialized deadline.
The White Sox volition get insignificant league pitcher Gage Ziehl, sources told ESPN.
Slater is batting .236 with 5 location runs and a .721 OPS successful 51 games this season, but similar caller Yankees acquisition Amed Rosario, helium has been precise productive against left-handed pitchers with a .261 batting average, .859 OPS and each 5 of his location runs coming successful 77 sheet appearances against them.
The 32-year-old right-handed hitter missed implicit a period betwixt April and May with a torn meniscus successful his close knee. He signed a one-year, $1.75 cardinal woody with Chicago successful November, making him a rental for the Yankees earlier reaching escaped bureau again this offseason.
Slater has started 15 games successful close field, 9 successful near tract and 1 arsenic designated hitter this season. He provides the Yankees further security should Judge, who is connected the 10-day injured database with a flexor strain, not instrumentality to the outfield for the remainder of the year.
As of now, the Yankees anticipation Judge volition instrumentality successful aboriginal August aft the 10-day minimum lack to service arsenic their designated hitter and statesman a throwing programme with the extremity of returning to close tract this season. Giancarlo Stanton, the club's mundane designated hitter, began moving retired successful close tract this week to hole for the anticipation of playing the tract for the archetypal clip since 2023.
Slater besides offers Yankees manager Aaron Boone much lineup and in-game flexibility to antagonistic left-handed pitchers with an outfield radical that leans heavy left-handed. With Judge connected the injured list, the Yankees don't person a right-handed-hitting superior outfielder connected the progressive roster; Trent Grisham and Cody Bellinger are left-handed, and Jasson Dominguez, a switch-hitter, has a .585 OPS successful 98 sheet appearances batting from the close broadside this season. Slater figures to commencement games implicit Dominguez against left-handed pitchers.
Rosario, a utilityman acquired from the Washington Nationals connected Saturday, gives Boone different right-handed-hitting country outfield option, but helium is besides slated to play 2nd and 3rd base.
Ziehl, 22, was a fourth-round prime by the Yankees past year. The right-hander has posted a 4.15 ERA successful 16 appearances (15 starts) betwixt 3 levels this season, topping retired with 1 commencement successful Double-A.
In summation to Slater and Rosario, the Yankees person traded for seasoned 3rd baseman Ryan McMahon successful the past week. They stay successful the marketplace for pitching, some starters and relievers earlier Thursday's 6 p.m. ET deadline, sources said.
