{"id":707748,"date":"2026-05-24T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/707748\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T20:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:00:14","slug":"tigers-designate-connor-seabold-for-assignment-activate-troy-melton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/707748\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Designate Connor Seabold For Assignment, Activate Troy Melton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/charlie-wright\" title=\"Posts by Charlie Wright\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Wright<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at May 24, 2026 2:56pm CDT  <\/p>\n<p>Right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/seaboco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Connor Seabold<\/a> has been designated for assignment by the Tigers, the team announced. The move opens up a roster spot for the return of righty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/meltotr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Troy Melton<\/a>, who will start Game 2 of the doubleheader against the Orioles. Melton has been sidelined since the spring with an elbow injury.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Charlie Wright | at May 24, 2026 2:56pm CDT Right-hander Connor Seabold has been designated for assignment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,7532,4,33608],"class_list":["post-707748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-connor-seabold","tag-mlb","tag-troy-melton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116631333969761876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707748","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=707748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}