{"id":635828,"date":"2026-03-21T18:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635828\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:43:14","slug":"austin-slater-exercises-release-clause-in-detroit-tigers-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635828\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Slater exercises release clause in Detroit Tigers contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LAKELAND, Fla. &#8212; Outfielder Austin Slater has exercised the release clause in the minor league contract he had signed with the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Slater\u2019s contract enabled him to get released if he wasn\u2019t going to make Detroit\u2019s season-opening roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Slater, 33, hit .216 with a .270 on-base percentage, five homers and 13 RBIs in 65 combined games with the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has batted .248 with a .336 on-base percentage, 45 homers and 184 RBIs in a nine-year career that has included stints with the San Francisco Giants (2017-24), Cincinnati Reds (2024), Baltimore Orioles (2024), White Sox (2025) and Yankees (2025).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKELAND, Fla. &#8212; Outfielder Austin Slater has exercised the release clause in the minor league contract he had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[81419,5,147,53,51685,2583,4,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-635828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-austin-slater-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-602692","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-tigers","12":"tag-detroit-tigers-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-230","13":"tag-detroittigers","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116268643522734458","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635828","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=635828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}