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To make room for Slater on the 26-man roster,
infielder/outfielder Brooks Baldwin was optioned to Triple-A
Charlotte.
Slater had surgery on April 15 to repair a meniscus tear in his
right knee. He batted .385 (5 for 13) over four games in a rehab
assignment with Charlotte.
“So imaging showed I had a slight tear,” Slater said before the
loss to the Mariners. "So I went under and had surgery and that
was almost five weeks ago. So way faster than I thought. I think
when I initially hurt it, I was like, ‘Oh, that’s my season.’
That was my initial reaction, so pleasantly surprised by the
recovery time I would say.”
Slater is batting .227 (5 for 22) with a homer in nine games
with Chicago. He agreed to a $1.75 million, one-year contract
with the White Sox in November.
“Anytime you miss an extended period, you know, and watching the
guys, you just want to get back out there to help any way you
can,” Slater said. “So that’s something I’ve been thinking about
a lot.”
Baldwin, a 12th-round pick in the 2022 amateur draft, made his
big league debut last year. He is batting .215 with three homers
and 16 RBIs in 44 games with the White Sox this season.
“With some of these guys coming back and getting healthy, it’s
going to be a little less playing time,” manager Will Venable
said. “And he’s at a point in his career where he really needs
to play. And we want to expose him to center field a little bit
more, some more opportunity on the dirt. We just think really
highly of him and want to give him a chance to have everyday
at-bats.”
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