{"id":509082,"date":"2026-01-07T03:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/509082\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T03:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:55:20","slug":"detroit-tigers-trade-outfielder-justyn-henry-malloy-to-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/509082\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers trade outfielder Justyn-Henry Malloy to Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">DETROIT \u2013 The Detroit Tigers have traded outfielder Justyn-Henry Malloy to the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Tigers announced the trade Tuesday morning, Jan. 6, 2026, on social media. Detroit received cash considerations in return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Malloy had been removed from the 40-man roster to make room for Kyle Finnegan, who the Tigers re-signed in free agency last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Malloy, who will turn 26 in February, played in 52 games for the Tigers last season, slashing .221\/.346\/.308 with six doubles, one homer, 20 walks, and 32 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He has a career .884 OPS in the minor leagues, including a .416 on-base percentage and 61 homers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Tigers acquired Malloy in December 2022 as the centerpiece of the Joe Jimenez trade.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2013 The Detroit Tigers have traded outfielder Justyn-Henry Malloy to the Tampa Bay Rays. The Tigers announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[58599,5,53,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-509082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-2026-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-rays","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabayrays","17":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115851803092321664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}