The Detroit Tigers have acquired Austin Meadows from the Tampa Bay Rays in a trade.

The Detroit Tigers procured outfielder Austin Knolls in an exchange with the Tampa Narrows Beams on Monday night.

Detroit sent infielder Isaac Paredes and a serious equilibrium round B pick in the 2022 beginner draft to Tampa Narrows for Knolls, who hit .234 with 27 homers and a profession high 106 RBIs last season.

Detroit is significantly better subsequent to going 77-85 last year in its fifth continuous losing season. Knolls joins an arrangement that incorporates Javier Báez, who marked a blockbuster manage the Tigers in free office, and Spencer Torkelson, one of the majors’ top slugging possibilities.

Knolls, who turns 27 on May 3, is a .260 hitter with 70 homers and 225 RBIs in 375 vocation games north of four seasons. He broke into the major associations in 2018 with Pittsburgh and was exchanged to Tampa Sound in the Chris Toxophilite bargain that July.

Knolls made the AL Top pick group in 2019, when he got done with a .291 batting normal, 33 homers and 89 RBIs.

Knolls’ more youthful sibling, Parker, was chosen by Detroit in the second round of the 2018 draft. He played for Class A Lakeland and Class A West Michigan last year.

Paredes, 23, can play second, third and shortstop. He batted .208 with a homer and five RBIs in 23 games with Detroit last season.