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Koenig has been extremely effective in 2024 for the Brewers with a 1.66 ERA and 1.00 WHIP over 29 appearances with a 36/11 K/BB over 38 innings. The southpaw will be a mid-to-late inning option now that he’s back.

There are no results yet, but the fact that the Rockies sprung for imaging could mean that Doyle’s wrist injury is more serious than initially thought. Stay tuned.

It’s broadly good news that López’s surgery was “less invasive” than a standard Tommy John surgery. Assuming he’s able to look good in his build up and has no setbacks, a return in the first half of the 2027 season will be on the table for the star starter. López will be on the final year of his four-year, $73.5 million contract in 2027. “This is the better of the two surgeries,” Twins athletic trainer Nick Paparesta said. “We’re pretty excited about that. Pablo is excited about that as well.”

“Didn’t really say anything because sometimes when you’re building up, you don’t always feel great. But once my bullpen (this week) wasn’t as good as it probably should’ve been, I spoke up and got an image done. Everything lines up pretty well with what I’m feeling. So I plan to sit out throwing for two to three weeks and then if I feel good, get going again,” Festa told The Athletic’s Dan Hayes. The impingement is apparently not related to last year’s shoulder injury.

Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said Jung felt “a little something” in his hamstring and that this is precautionary, adding that “it’s February 26.” Jung has yet to even come close to a full season, with last year’s 131 games standing as his current career-high. Thus, any injury with him should be monitored closely. Jung hasn’t hit well enough to be more than an AL-only league starter at third base for fantasy managers.

He’s continued to play catch after biceps inflammation sprung up in early February, but the fact that we’re now almost in March and Hader doesn’t really seem to be progressing is ominous. Fantasy managers that draft Hader — and at this point we’d continue to break tier ties against Hader — should consider pursuing Bryan Abreu as a contingency plan later in their drafts.

He’ll likely be managed with a lot of DH time this season, but it’s a good sign to see Alvarez ready to go before we get too deep into spring training. Our last update on him was that he was completely pain free, so fantasy managers shouldn’t have any reservations about drafting him early based on what we currently know. He’s still coming at a slight discount after last year’s 48-game injury-plagued debacle of a season.

“I can’t open a bottle,” Stanton said. “I can’t open a bag of chips … a bag of anything. That’s the way it is.” He plans to continue to play through the pain. Obviously, as he’s played just 582 of 1,032 Yankees regular season games since 2019, fantasy managers know what they are getting into at this point. Stanton will almost certainly continue to miss plenty of time this year, even though he has said he wants to play a full season.

“We don’t know what’s going on, so we’ll have more in the upcoming days,” manager Alex Cora said. Rodgers had looked to be a candidate to open the year on the big league roster if Romy Gonzalez’s shoulder injury proved too difficult to overcome. If the injury is serious, it will likely push Andruw Monasterio into a better chance to make the team in a bench role.

He’ll be guaranteed $3 million with a chance to earn up to $10 million more in incentives, according to Ken Rosenthal. Scherzer could have kept waiting and seeing if other organizations had needs, but he’ll stick with the team that he helped get to the World Series last year, even though that club would seem to have little need for him at the moment. We imagine he’ll start off on the IL and wait for something to open up, but that’s to be determined. Given that he had a 5.19 ERA and his strikeout rate has been down considerably the last two years, it’s unclear whether he’d deserve a spot over Shane Bieber and Cody Ponce if all of Toronto’s starters are healthy for any length of time.

Grichuk provides New York with another lefty-mashing platoon outfield option to spell Cody Bellinger and Trent Grisham. His arrival seems to further indicate that the Yankees would prefer to have Jasson Domínguez playing everyday at Triple-A instead of languishing on the bench. The 34-year-old veteran is coming off an underwhelming year split between the Royals and Diamondbacks where he batted .228/.273/.401 with nine homers in 113 games. He makes sense as a bench option with the Yankees but can be safely ignored in all fantasy formats.