TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays put outfielder Addison Barger back on the injured list with right elbow inflammation and designated left-handed pitcher Eric Lauer for assignment on Monday.
Toronto also recalled outfielder Yohendrick Piñango from Triple-A Buffalo and selected right-handed pitcher Yariel Rodríguez to its major league roster before opening a three-game home series with the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays.
Barger had just been activated from the injured list on Saturday after missing just over a month with an elbow issue.
In his first game since April 5, Barger was playing right field when he caught a line drive and then threw the Los Angeles Angels’ Jorge Soler out at the plate with a 101.2-mph throw. That was the fastest outfield assist by any Blue Jays player since Statcast began tracking that data in 2015.
But he was scratched from Toronto’s lineup on Sunday due to right elbow soreness and returned to the injured list a day later. The injury list assignment is retroactive to Sunday.
Barger, 26, has gone just 1 for 22 at the plate in nine games this season after playing a big role in Toronto’s World Series run last year.
He hit .243 with a .301 on-base percentage, 21 homers and 74 RBIs in 135 games in 2025. He batted .367 with a .441 on-base percentage, .583 slugging percentage, three homers and nine RBIs in 17 postseason games.
In Toronto’s World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, Barger went 12 of 25 with a .536 on-base percentage. In a Game 1 victory, he hit the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history.
Lauer, 30, has gone 1-5 with a 6.69 earned-run average this season in eight appearances, including six starts. That follows a 2025 season in which he went 9-2 with a 3.18 ERA.
Piñango, 24, has gone 11 of 26 with no homers and four RBIs in 10 games with Toronto this season. He also has hit .288 with a .370 on-base percentage, three homers, 13 RBIs and two steals in 22 games with Buffalo.
Rodríguez, 29, is 1-0 with a 2.63 ERA in 11 appearances with Buffalo this season. He went 3-2 with a 3.08 ERA in 66 games with Toronto last year.
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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Eric Lauer, right, looks on as Los Angeles Angels' Oswald Peraza, back left, rounds the bases after hitting a two-run home run during the top of the fifth inning of a baseball game in Toronto, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Eric Lauer throws against the Los Angeles Angels during the top of the fifth inning of a baseball game in Toronto, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
Toronto Blue Jays' Addison Barger breaks his bat while facing Los Angeles Angels pitcher Jack Kochanowicz during first-inning baseball game action in Toronto, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department is canceling a rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump's administration eases restrictions on industries and seeks to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land.
The 2024 rule adopted under former President Joe Biden was meant to refocus the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, which oversees about 10% of land in the U.S. It allowed public property to be leased for restoration in the same way that oil companies lease land for drilling.
But Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has said the rule could have blocked access to hundreds of thousands of acres (hectares) of land — preventing energy and timber production and hurting ranchers who graze on public lands.
Supporters argued that conservation had long been a secondary consideration at the land bureau, neglecting its mission under the 1976 Federal Lands Policy Management Act. While the bureau previously issued leases for conservation purposes in limited cases, it never had a dedicated program prior to the Biden administration.
Industry groups and their Republican allies in Congress strongly opposed the rule and had lobbied to repeal it. They said the change under Biden violated the “multiple use” mandate for Interior Department lands, by catapulting the “non-use” of federal lands — meaning restoration leases — to a position of prominence.
The federal government's vast land holdings are concentrated in Western states including Alaska, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Since taking office, Trump has pursued a flurry of actions aimed at boosting fossil fuel production from those taxpayer-owned sites. The Republican administration also has sought to sideline some renewable energy projects, claiming they were unfairly subsidized under Biden.
The official repeal of the rule was scheduled to be published Tuesday in the Federal Register. Documents detailing the action were released in advance.
It comes after Republicans in Congress in recent months canceled land management plans adopted in the closing days of Biden's administration that restricted development in large areas of Alaska, Montana and North Dakota.
In addition to its surface land holdings, the Bureau of Land Management regulates publicly owned underground mineral reserves — such as coal for power plants and lithium for renewable energy — across more than 1 million square miles (2.5 million square kilometers). The bureau has a history of industry-friendly policies and for more than a century has sold grazing permits and oil and gas leases.
FILE - Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, center, is seen at the White House, March 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
FILE - Cows graze along a section of the Missouri River that includes the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument on Sept. 19, 2011, near Fort Benton, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
