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If the Rule 5 draft pick from the Minnesota Twins stays on the active roster for the entire season, the Tigers can keep him. If not, he must be offered back to the Twins.

The Braves’ backstop still has plenty of home run potential and could hit more than Gomes, but his game doesn’t suggest he’ll do much else. To make matters worse for d’Arnaud, he’s easily the worst defensive catcher of the group. He’s never thrown out runners well and started taking reps at first base in 2019. If he remains a catcher moving forward, his defense won’t get much better.

Naehring: “I don't know anybody can point the fingers at any particular individuals when we had all those injuries a few years ago, but when it's all said and done, we can look in the past and try to make things better. Eric’s department is very progressive and obviously there’s a tremendous amount of confidence in what it brings to the Yankee organization. And I know we all have to evolve. ...

The calls for the White Sox to pluck him out of left field and install him as a full-time designated hitter are sure to get louder now that Jiménez's injury makes the team's quest for a World Series title significantly more difficult. And the team will eventually have to think about what comes next.

Kingery is in a three-man race with Odubel Herrera and Roman Quinn for the starting center field job. In the evaluation process, Girardi has put a premium on quality at-bats while also asking Kingery to shorten his swing and adopt more of a gap-to-gap, line-drive approach. It's not easy to compete for a job and make mechanical changes at the same time. Kingery is just 4 for 30 (.133) with a double and a homer. He has walked just twice and struck out 14 times.

Jordan Romano's fastball has enjoyed a more-than-200-rpm boost in spin rate, and he has thrown it nearly two-thirds of the time -- a sizable bump compared to 2020 (40.1%). If those numbers don't register for you, worry not, as the takeaway is that the greater the average fastball velocity (and Romero's has averaged 96.5 mph this spring, which has been fully Statcast-tracked) and the higher the spin rate, the more of a strikeout pitch it becomes. His tweaks mean that he now has two legitimate swing-and-miss pitches, so he no longer has to lean on his slider so heavily. There's a reason Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker declared Romero to be a high-leverage arm for 2021. Given Monday's Kirby Yates news, it's fair to go all-in on Romero when speculating on this team's April saves.

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