Chicago White Sox Activate Infielder From Injured List

CHICAGO – Infielder Lenyn Sosa is back with the White Sox ahead of Tuesday’s 6:40 p.m. CT game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Rate Field.

The team reinstated Sosa from the injured list on Tuesday, following three games with the Triple-A Charlotte Knights as part of an injury rehab assignment. During that time, he went 1-for-10 with a double and four strikeouts. He was placed on the injured list retroactive to June 3 with a right hip flexor strain.

“Hope to get some offensive production,” White Sox manager Will Venabe said of Sosa’s return. “Hopefully he can get our offense going a little bit. Obviously he has a dangerous bat, and yeah, excited to have him back in there. Looking forward to it.”

“He feels good. I think it was a good weekend for him, just to get through some at-bats. He feels healthy, and he’s ready to go.”

In a corresponding move, infielder/outfielder Brooks Baldwin was optioned back down to Triple-A after going 0-for-3 with three strikeouts in his second stint in the major leagues this season.

Sosa played second base and third base during the rehab assignment, but Tuesday against the Cardinals he’ll play first base and bat seventh. He has played 10 games at first base for the White Sox this season, as well as 50 at second base, three at third base and two as the designated hitter.

The White Sox claimed Ryan Noda off waivers from Boston while Sosa was on the injured list. So between Noda, Sosa and Miguel Vargas, there will be a rotation at first base.

“At least this series, against the righties, you’ll see Noda over there,” Venable said. “But I think Lenyn and Vargy, there’s scenarios where on different days, we could have some different solutions on the infield and see different guys over there, see different guys at third base. So we have a bunch of flexibility. There’s not anything that sticking out in my mind right now that’s kind of like the go-to set alignment. So I think that’s one of the good things about our roster, both infield and outfield-wise. We have some flexibility to do different things.”

In his fourth season with the White Sox, Sosa is slashing .274/.291/.383 with four home runs, 17 RBIs, 10 doubles, 15 runs, one stolen base, five walks and 48 strikeouts across his first 207 plate appearances. In the first look at 2025 MLB All-Star voting, which was released Monday, Sosa had received the 10th most votes among American League second basemen.

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