Word of Davis Martin heading to Kansas City as the emergency starter for today’s nightcap broke last night, but there are few more wrinkles to the roster as of today:
With Johnny Cueto’s promotion to the White Sox on Monday filling the 40-man roster up, today’s moves got a little tricky.
Paternity leave covers one to three days of absence from the team, so Kopech will be back with the White Sox to start against the Yankees later this week. His replacement (in this case, Martin) does not count against the active roster, so in a sense, calling up a player to replace a teammate on paternity leave is another form of “emergency call-up” for a doubleheader.