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The deal also includes a $5 million club option for the 2025 season. The 32-year-old right-hander isn’t expected to be ready to contribute until around mid-season, as he’s still working his way back from Tommy John surgery. Trivino is already in Yankees’ camp and will continue rehabbing and working out there.

Buxton has been scalding hot of late. He’s not hit a home run in four of his last five games and all nine of his long balls this season have come in his last 16 games. Just in the last week, he’s gone from a .705 OPS to an .845 OPS. It’s a good reminder as to how early in the season it still is and that when Buxton is on, the homers can come in bunches.

There’s a phrase for outings like this one by Woods-Richardson: he got pieced up. Of the 20 balls the Blue Jays put in play against him, 12 were hard-hit and Kazuma Okamoto took him deep twice. He doesn’t have an out-pitch, high-end velocity, or particularly good command. It’s hard to see the Twins continuing to send him out there every fifth day much longer.

Muncy doubled in the top of the second inning to drive home Andy Pages and give the Dodgers their first run of the night. On a night where Shohei Ohtani went 0-for-5 at the plate, Muncy’s double was one of the very few bright spots for the Dodgers’ offense on Friday. He has now it safely in seven of his last eight games, and is slashing .353/.441/.745 over his last 15 games with five homers and eight RBI.

Walker continues to be one of the hottest hitters in the Cardinals’ lineup. The 23-year-old got things started with a single in the first inning and was eventually driven in thanks to a Nolan Gorman home run, and then doubled to drive home Alec Burleson and Ivan Herrera in the seventh inning to put the Cards up 6-2. Walker has now hit safely in four-straight games and is slashing a blistering .407/.469/.593 over his last seven games. After a slow start to his career, Walker continues to show the promise that made him a top prospect.

It was a disastrous first inning for Sheehan, who allowed two of the first four batters he faced to reach base, one of whom came around to score on a balk. After said balk, Sheehan would allow a two-run homer to Nolan Gorman to give the Cardinals an early 3-0 lead, but eventually escaped the inning without allowing any additional runs. Sheehan would give up another homer in the third inning, this time to Alec Burleson, to put the Cardinals up 4-1, but came back out to pitch a scoreless fourth inning before being pulled with two outs in the fifth inning. With his ERA now sitting at 5.23 on the season, Sheehan has struggled to be consistent despite good strikeout totals. His next start is scheduled for Wednesday against the Astros.

Liberatore held the potent Dodgers’ lineup in check for most of the night, with his two blemishes coming on an RBI double by Max Muncy in the second inning and a sacrifice fly RBI by Kyle Tucker in the sixth inning. It was a much-needed bounce-back game for Liberatore, who was fresh off allowing five earned runs in his last outing against the Mariners. He’s allowed two earned runs or fewer in four of his seven starts this season and will look to stay on track in his next start, which is set for Wednesday against the Brewers.

Marsh was drilled in the elbow by a pitch that just missed his elbow guard and caught him flush. Fortunately, X-rays came back negative for any fractures and he feels like he should be fine. He’s considered day-to-day.

It wasn’t a pretty first save for Keller, who needed 26 pitches to get through the frame and started things off with a leadoff walk to Javier Sanoja. Sanoja would eventually come around to score on an RBI single by Otto Lopez, but got Xavier Edwards to fly out to center to end the inning on a full count fastball. Given the dicey outing, we’ll see if interim manager Don Mattingly calls on Keller again the next time a save situation arises, or if he opts to go with someone else while Jhoan Duran is on the 15-day IL.

Lopez’s double came in unconventional fashion after a solo homer was overturned via a challenge when instant replay revealed the ball had hit the wall before being knocked out of play by outfielder Justin Crawford, resulting in a double for Lopez. He would come around to score on the following at-bat, and was driven home again in the eighth inning when Augustín Ramírez singled to cut the Phillies’ lead to 6-4. Lopez raised his average on the season to .333 with Friday’s performance and has hit safely in his last four games.

Oblique injuries are rarely day-to-day types of injuries, but Cash was optimistic that they caught it early enough for it to not be a bigger problem. Fantasy managers should expect him to at least get a day off on Saturday as a precautionary measure.