The White Sox on Friday announced that theyve placed on the 10-day injured list with an adductor strain, selected the contract of veteran outfielder , and designated right-hander for a signment in order to open a roster spot for Gro sman. Jimenezs IL placement is retroactive to April 2. Sox GM Chris Getz suggested earlier this week that Gro sman, 34, could soon be added to the big league roster. The veteran switch-hitter spent the 2023 season with the World Series champion Rangers and batted .238/.340/.394. Hes been an average or better hitter in six of the past eight seasons, collecting 3552 plate appearances and delivering a combined .245/.350/.387 batting line. Gro sman is a career .282/.381/.426 slash against left-handed pitching (126 wRC+). Hes been below-average, albeit not egregiously so, against right-handed pitching. Gro sman has played a bit of center field in his career, but the vast majority of that experience came back in 2013. Hes primarily a corner outfielder and designated hitter, with the bulk of his outfield work coming in left field. He played 553 innings on the gra s for Texas last season but turned in well below-average defensive marks. He can offer the Sox a veteran bat to step in for the injured Jimenez at designated hitter and could also spell left-handed-hitting corner outfielders and against left-handed starting pitchers on occasion. Speas, 26, joined the White Sox via waiver claim last October. The flamethrowing righty sits 99-100 mph with his heater and can climb higher than that. As one would expect, thats led to some prodigious strikeout totals in the minors, but Shaquille O'Neal Jersey Speas struggles to command his power arsenal and has alarming walk rates in the upper minors. He pitched two big league innings for the Rangers last year but split the bulk of the season between Double-A and Triple-A. Speas fanned a ridiculous 41% of his Double-A opponents and nearly 35% of his Triple-A opponents, but he also walked a combined 15.5% of his opponents. Speas was with the Sox during spring training and walked six of his 26 opponents. Hes begun the season in Triple-A Charlotte, where he was tagged for four runs in two innings as he walked another two of the 11 batters hes faced there. The 2016 second-round pick has electric stuff but has walked more than 18% of the opponents hes faced in pro ball. The White Sox will have a week to trade Speas, attempt to pa s him through outright waivers or release him. Jimenez exited the White Sox game back on Sunday due to sorene s in his adductor muscle and hasnt played in a game since. Hes out to a 2-for-11 start on the season, with both hits being singles. The 27-year-old slugger has shown at times that he has the upside to be one of the games most dangerous hitters. Jimenez belted 31 homers as a rookie in 2019 and as recently as 2021, he slashed .295/.358/.500 with 16 homers in just 84 games. Injuries have been far too frequent for the Dominican-born slugger, however. Hes been on the injured list due to ankle, elbow/forearm, and hamstring injuries (twice), in addition to the current adductor strain and a 2023 appendectomy that kept him out for about three weeks. Jimenez has never topped the 122 games he played as a rookie, and that 2019 season is the only one of his career in which hes reached 500 big league plate appearances. Jordan Bone Jersey