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Let's dive into everything baseball related from Monday, June 9th. We'll start it off,

as always, with the transactions, injuries, news, and notes from around the league, beginning things

with the bad news. As starting pitcher, Ryan Weathers was placed on the 60-day IL with a latch

strain. It's pretty unusual for a player to be placed directly on the 60-day IL.

So clearly this is a very serious injury for Weathers.

He will not be eligible to return until mid-August, though I wouldn't be surprised if he missed the remainder of the year.

In a corresponding move, starting pitcher Auri Perez was activated from the 60-day IL.

He had been out for the past year

plus after undergoing Tommy John surgery and he made his return to start in Pittsburgh,

tossing three innings, allowing four hits and four and runs while walking two and striking

out five. He induced eight whiffs with 24% CSW across 70 pitches. And Perez's stuff looked

really good. He also displayed some new

pitches. I don't know if it was just the designations that Stackcast was making on his pitches,

but it looked like he had a cutter as opposed to a slider. And he incorporated a sinker,

a pitch that he didn't have before. But Perez definitely looked like he was a little rusty.

However, he was able to touch 100 miles per hour.

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