The White Sox reach the halfway point of the 2025 season on Wednesday, but Shane Smith and Mike Vasil have already fulfilled their full-season obligations.
Today is the 90th day of the MLB season, which means that Smith and Vasil have met the minimum requirements for active duty for a Rule 5 pick. They still can’t be optioned to the minors without being offered back to their original teams, but they can now be placed on the injured list, whether it’s for an actual injury or abundance-of-caution workload management purposes, without concerns of coming up short at the end of the season. After the year is up, they’ll be regular members of the White Sox’s 40-man roster with a full slate of options remaining.
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