
Stay up-to-date with all the latest news on injured players across Major League Baseball.
Elly De La Cruz, Hunter Greene, Jose Trevino and Pierce Johnson, Reds
De La Cruz (right hamstring strain) was placed on the 10-day IL on June 1. He was diagnosed with between a Grade 1 and 2 strain, will get treatment for a couple of days before resuming activity and will undergo another MRI in mid-June.
Greene (right elbow surgery) was encouraged after completing his first bullpen session on May 26, throwing 15 to 20 pitches without complications. He threw a second bullpen session on May 29 and had a third slated for June 1.
Trevino (left hamstring strain) is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment on June 4 with Triple-A Louisville and play three games.
Johnson (right elbow inflammation) was placed on the 15-day injured list on May 30. An MRI showed no serious damage, and Johnson received a cortisone injection.
Tarik Skubal, Gleyber Torres, Justin Verlander and Javier Báez, Tigers
Skubal (loose body in left elbow) threw a 64-pitch, four-inning simulated game on June 1 at Tropicana Field, striking out six. He could make a rehab appearance with Triple-A Toledo during the weekend of June 6-7 before a potential return to the Tigers' rotation.
Torres (left oblique strain) rejoined the Tigers at Tampa Bay for a pregame workout on June 1 after two rehab games with Triple-A Toledo. He could be reinstated as soon as June 2.
Verlander (left hip inflammation) is expected to make a rehab appearance on June 2 for Triple-A Toledo.
Báez (right ankle sprain) was scheduled to visit a specialist on June 1 for further evaluation on his ankle, which has not progressed as well as he hoped.
J.T. Realmuto, Phillies
Realmuto avoided any serious injury when he was struck by a 97 mph fastball on his left wrist and forced to leave the game early on May 31. X-rays were negative.
Garrett Crochet, Willson Contreras, Ceddanne Rafaela and Roman Anthony, Red Sox
Crochet (left shoulder inflammation) is dealing with lat tightness and won't throw his scheduled live bullpen on June 2, according to interim manager Chad Tracy. He’ll see a doctor when the Red Sox return to Boston.
Contreras (hand/wrist) and Rafaela (back) were both out of the lineup on May 31.
Tracy said on May 29 that Anthony (right wrist sprain) was being shut down again after experiencing soreness while taking tee swings on May 28.
Konnor Griffin, Pirates
Griffin was placed on the 10-day IL on May 31 with a low-grade flexor muscle strain in his right forearm.
Maikel Garcia and Cole Ragans, Royals
Garcia (Grade 1 right hamstring strain) remained out of the lineup June 1 in Cincinnati. He worked out on the field pregame, according to manager Matt Quatraro, who said the Royals remain optimistic that Garcia will avoid the injured list.
Ragans (left elbow impingement) resumed playing catch on June 1. There is still no timetable for his return or next steps.
Jesús Sánchez, Max Scherzer, Dylan Cease and Alejandro Kirk, Blue Jays
Sánchez exited Toronto's game on May 31 against the Orioles in the sixth inning holding his right hand after he was hit by a ball thrown by a fan from the seats in right-center field at Camden Yards.
Scherzer (forearm tendinitis) began a rehab assignment May 31 with Triple-A Buffalo, pitching three hitless innings with two walks and four strikeouts.
Cease (mild left hamstring strain) threw a 25-to-30-pitch bullpen session on May 30.
Kirk (left thumb fracture) took batting practice on the field on May 29 and could begin rehab games soon.
Munetaka Murakami and Austin Hays, White Sox
Murakami was placed on the 10-day IL on May 30 with a Grade 2 right hamstring strain and is expected to miss four to six weeks. He received a platelet-rich plasma injection on June 1.
Hays (left calf strain) was pulled from his injury rehab assignment and sent back to Chicago for further evaluation on June 1 after continuing to experience lower-body soreness.
Bailey Ober, Ryan Jeffers, Cole Sands, Mick Abel and David Festa, Twins
Ober was diagnosed with a mild right flexor strain, general manager Jeremy Zoll said June 1. An MRI exam revealed that the graft on the UCL in Ober’s elbow is intact, and he will be shut down for 10-14 days before being reevaluated.
Jeffers (left hamate bone fracture), who underwent surgery on May 20, had his cast removed and has begun throwing but is not yet swinging a bat.
Sands (mild right forearm strain) will begin a rehab assignment on June 2.
Abel (right elbow inflammation) is expected to throw live batting practice on June 4 and could progress to a rehab assignment not long after that.
Festa (right shoulder impingement) began a throwing program on June 1, Zoll said. He will throw from flat ground for three weeks before throwing off a mound again.
Wyatt Langford, Corey Seager, Chris Martin and Robert Garcia, Rangers
Langford (Grade 1 right flexor strain) began a rehab assignment with Triple-A Round Rock on May 30.
Seager (back inflammation/spasms) took live batting practice on May 30 in addition to fielding and running.
Martin was placed on the 15-day injured list on June 1, retroactive to May 31, with a right shoulder impingement.
Garcia (left rotator cuff inflammation) was transferred to the 60-day IL on June 1.
Chandler Simpson, Taylor Walls and Craig Kimbrel, Rays
Simpson left the Rays' June 1 game against the Tigers. While advancing to second base on a wild pitch, Simpson's helmet bounced off the base and hit him in the mouth.
Walls also exited on June 1, leaving the game in the third inning for “precautionary” reasons due to left hamstring tightness.
Kimbrel was placed on the 15-day injured list on May 31 due to a right wrist strain after just one appearance with his new team.
Edward Cabrera, Matthew Boyd and Matt Shaw, Cubs
Cabrera (right middle-finger blister) was scheduled to throw an extended bullpen session on May 31.
Boyd (left meniscus injury) made his first rehab start on May 31 for Triple-A Iowa, allowing three runs (two earned) and striking out two in four innings. He is expected to make at least one more rehab start.
Shaw (back tightness) is expected to start a Minor League rehab assignment with Triple-A Iowa on June 2.
A.J. Puk, Jordan Lawlar, Lourdes Gurriel Jr., James McCann, Carlos Santana and Cristian Mena, D-backs
Puk (left elbow surgery) will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Reno on June 2. He is set to appear June 2 and June 5 in relief.
Lawlar (right wrist fracture) is playing in complex games at the D-backs' Spring Training facility and could join Triple-A Reno for a rehab assignment as soon as the week of June 1.
Gurriel (left hamstring tightness) has begun taking machine batting practice, running and doing outfield work. He could begin a rehab assignment at the club's Spring Training complex as soon as June 8.
McCann (right quad strain) has begun to hit against a machine, perform catching drills and do some light running.
Santana (right adductor strain) was transferred to the 60-day injured list on June 1. He is participating in live batting practice and running the bases with mild intensity.
Mena will undergo season-ending shoulder surgery, manager Torey Lovullo said June 1.
Lars Nootbaar, Cardinals
Nootbaar (surgery on both heels) will have his rehab assignment moved to Triple-A Memphis from Double-A Springfield either June 2 or June 3, according to manager Oliver Marmol.
Harrison Bader, Tyler Mahle and Jason Foley, Giants
Bader (plantar fasciitis) is using a walking boot, as of a June 1 update, and will see Dr. Robert Anderson for a second opinion later in the week.
Mahle (left hamstring strain) began a throwing progression on June 1 and will return to the mound later in the week.
Foley (right shoulder surgery) has thrown 6 2/3 scoreless innings in his first six rehab appearances for Triple-A Sacramento.
Brandon Woodruff and Brandon Lockridge, Brewers
Woodruff (right shoulder inflammation) is set to throw 60 pitches in a live batting practice session on June 3. There will probably be at least one more step after that, either another BP session or a rehab start, before he returns to the Brewers.
Lockridge (right knee laceration) took a big step forward on June 1 by running at 85-90 percent. If his knee responds well, he could get live at-bats against Woodruff on June 3.
Eury Pérez, Griffin Conine and Janson Junk, Marlins
Pérez (right gracilis strain) was placed on the 15-day IL on May 29 and will take eight weeks to recover.
Conine (left hamstring tear) was transferred to the 60-day IL on June 1. He is running at 70 percent, hitting and throwing, according to manager Clayton McCullough.
The Marlins placed Junk on the 15-day injured list with right shin inflammation on May 31.
Zach Neto, Nolan Schanuel and Yoán Moncada, Angels
Neto was scratched roughly an hour before first pitch on June 1 with whiplash from a May 30 collision at home plate.
Schanuel (left ankle inflammation) ran at light intensity, took grounders and participated in shuffling drills on June 1 and said his ankle is improving.
Moncada (right knee inflammation) participated in light on-field activity on June 1.
TJ Rumfield and Jordan Beck, Rockies
Rumfield (right shoulder inflammation) was available to pinch-hit June 1 and could return to the lineup as soon as June 2, depending on how pregame drills go.
Beck (left hamstring strain) said May 31 he received an anti-inflammatory injection a couple of days earlier and is allowing it to take effect.
Francisco Lindor, Jorge Polanco, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga and Luis Robert Jr., Mets
Lindor (left calf strain) began baseball activities -- fielding drills, running sprints and swinging the bat in the indoor cages -- in late May but is not ready for a rehab assignment as of June 1.
Polanco (left Achilles bursitis) began a rehab assignment on May 27 with Double-A Binghamton and could return to the big league club the first week of June.
Alvarez (meniscus tear) will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Syracuse on June 2.
Senga (lumbar spine inflammation) has made two rehab starts as of May 29 and will start again June 3 but will need to show better results before the Mets consider activating him.
Robert (lumbar spine disc herniation) was progressing better as of a May 29 update, but his timeline will remain fluid until symptoms subside.
Angel Martínez, Guardians
The Guardians received encouraging news on Martínez's left foot injury, which forced the 24-year-old from Cleveland's May 30 game against the Red Sox and necessitated him undergoing an MRI afterward. Martínez has a “mild mid-foot strain.”
Cal Raleigh, Mariners
Raleigh (right oblique strain) swung a bat for the first time on May 29, taking 15 swings off a tee from each side of the plate. He flew to Seattle on May 31 to meet with the medical staff.
Hunter Brown, Cristian Javier and Jose Altuve, Astros
Brown (Grade 2 right shoulder strain) is scheduled to make his next rehab start on June 4 for Triple-A Sugar Land.
Javier (Grade 2 right shoulder strain) is scheduled to start June 3 with Double-A Corpus Christi.
Manager Joe Espada said May 31 that Altuve (Grade 2 left oblique strain) was “really close” to facing live pitching and is “closer than we were all expecting him to be” to returning.
Luis Severino, Athletics
Severino left his May 29 start against the Yankees after one inning with right arm soreness. He was placed on the IL with a right shoulder strain on May 30.