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Bryce Montes de Oca

WSH Relief Pitcher #63

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Nationals signed RHP Bryce Montes de Oca to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training.

Montes de Oca is recovering from Tommy John surgery he underwent in September of 2024, and there’s a decent chance he won’t be ready for the start of the season. The 6-foot-7 right-hander has a chance to contribute to the Nationals’ bullpen when healthy, but will need to be added to the 40-man roster to join that group.

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Blaine Crim

COL 1st Baseman #16

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Rockies placed 1B Blaine Crim on the 10-day injured list with a strained oblique.

Crim has been out since late February with a strained oblique and is still working his way back. His absence has allowed T.J. Rumfield to emerge as the likely starting first baseman in Colorado.
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Rays say Pepiot injury not a cause for concern

March 24, 2026 02:53 PM

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Hunter Dobbins

STL Starting Pitcher #40

Cardinals placed RHP Hunter Dobbins on the 15-day injured list following ACL surgery.

Dobbins is throwing, but the Cardinals didn’t want to risk a setback by having him pitch in games this spring. He’s at least a month away from being a candidate for the team’s rotation.

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Lars Nootbaar

STL Left Fielder #21
Cardinals placed OF Lars Nootbaar on the 60-day IL with bilateral Haglund’s Deformity excision.

That’s unexpected. It’d been clear for a couple of weeks that Nootbaar would open up on the IL following his heel surgeries, but it was supposed to be the 10-day. Nootbaar has been hitting and throwing since the beginning of the spring and recently resumed running, but we take it that didn’t go as well as hoped. Nathan Church, Thomas Saggese and José Fermín will divvy up his at-bats for at least the first two months.
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Kyle Teel

CWS Catcher #8
White Sox placed C Kyle Teel on the 10-day injured list with a strained right hamstring.

Teel is back catching and doing some light running after getting hurt running the bases in the WBC. It’s possible he’ll return as soon as his 10 days are up. Until then, Edgar Quero will do most of the catching.
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Brooks Baldwin

CWS Left Fielder #27

White Sox placed INF/OF Brooks Baldwin on the 10-day injured list with a sprained right elbow.

Baldwin likely would have played pretty regularly for the White Sox at the start of the year, but his elbow started bothering him while throwing, which is something he’s dealt with previously. It sounds like he’ll miss at least the first few weeks, opening up extra at-bats for Luisangel Acuña and Lenyn Sosa.

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Mike Vasil

CWS Relief Pitcher #61

White Sox placed RHP Mike Vasil on the 15-day injured list with a torn right UCL.

Vasil was injured on March 14 and will soon have Tommy John surgery that will cost him all of 2026 and, most likely, the first part of 2027.

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Drew Thorpe

CWS Starting Pitcher #33

White Sox placed RHP Drew Thorpe on the 15-day injured list following Tommy John surgery.

Thorpe underwent Tommy John surgery a year ago and had a little bump in the road in dealing with tendinitis earlier this spring. Still, he’s been throwing regularly this month and could go on a rehab assignment in the coming weeks.

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Prelander Berroa

CWS Relief Pitcher #52

White Sox placed RHP Prelander Berroa on the 15-day injured list following Tommy John surgery.

Berroa, once thought of as perhaps the White Sox’s closer of the future, is back throwing off a mound 12 1/2 months after Tommy John and could begin a rehab assignment before the end of April. He’ll likely be optioned to Triple-A once that rehab assignment is complete.

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Korey Lee

CWS Catcher #26

White Sox designated C Korey Lee for assignment.

We thought the White Sox still held some fondness for Lee, but picking up Reese McGuire to replace him showed that that wasn’t really the case. Lee would almost surely get claimed off waivers if he had options left and could be stashed in Triple-A, but as is, it seems more likely that he’ll clear.

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Curtis Mead

CWS 1st Baseman #17

White Sox designated INF Curtis Mead for assignment.

Mead failed to make the White Sox while hitting .233/.258/.500 this spring. His exit velocities as a major leaguer just haven’t been very promising at all, and he’s never contributed much with the glove. Given the ability he showed offensively in the minors, perhaps there’s still something here to be fixed, but unless the Nationals are interested, it seems pretty likely that he’ll clear waivers.

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