CHICAGO (AP) — Kyle Teel is back with the Chicago White Sox after missing most of the season because of injuries.
Teel was activated from the 10-day injured list on Friday and fellow catcher Drew Romo was optioned to Triple-A Charlotte.
Teel, a first-round pick in the 2023 amateur draft, was acquired by Chicago when it traded Garrett Crochet to Boston in December 2024. He hit .273 with eight homers and 35 RBIs in 78 games last year, his first with the White Sox.
But Teel has appeared in just 19 big league games this season, hitting .190 with two homers and 14 RBIs for the AL Central leaders.
Teel strained his right hamstring while playing for Italy in the World Baseball Classic. Then he hurt his right knee while on a rehab assignment for Charlotte.
He made his season debut for Chicago on June 22. But less than a month later he injured his left ankle trying to tag a runner at home in the second inning of a 10-3 victory at Texas. He was diagnosed with a high ankle sprain.
Romo was claimed off waivers from the New York Mets on Jan. 8. He's batting .141 with seven homers and 16 RBIs in 60 games this season. He had no homers and six RBIs in 19 career games — all with Colorado — coming into the year.
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FILE - Chicago White Sox catcher Kyle Teel throws the ball back to the pitcher during spring training baseball, Feb. 10, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
LONDON (AP) — Anti-immigration party Reform UK suspended two senior officials on Friday after they were filmed appearing to discuss accepting funds from a foreign donor in potential breach of British electoral law.
Leader Nigel Farage downplayed the aides' conversations as “loose pub talk,” but the party said Dan Jukes, a longtime Farage adviser, and policy chief James Orr “have stepped down from their respective positions” pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
On Thursday, broadcaster Channel 4 aired footage of Jukes and Farage having lunch with two men purporting to be a U.S. financier and his U.K.-based son. Farage listens to the others discussing how a 500,000 pound ($675,000) donation could be channeled to the party through the son, and thanks the men for their support. The “son” was actually a reporter from investigative group Verbatim, and the “father” an actor.
In separate footage, Orr, a Cambridge University theologian, appears to discuss getting the U.S. donor to pay for opinion polls commissioned by Reform UK. Orr tells the undercover reporter that “we just don’t have British-resident donors, British entities, that would support us.”
U.K. electoral law says parties can only accept donations from British voters or U.K.-registered businesses.
The allegations overshadowed Reform’s annual conference, being held Friday and Saturday in Birmingham, central England.
In a keynote address that was interrupted several times by protesters, Farage said Reform UK was being targeted “because they’re scared of us.”
He insisted the party had not broken any rules or accepted “dodgy money” and accused “foreign-funded hard-left activists” of being behind what he called “entrapment.” Verbatim is an offshoot of the Centre for Climate Reporting, a nonprofit investigative group that says it is funded by grants and donations.
He said Jukes and Orr were “contractors that work for us, who’ve said … some injudicious things at best.” Their claims were “loose pub talk, including a couple of boasts that simply were not true,” Farage said.
“The party has done nothing wrong, taken no illegal money," Farage said at a news conference Friday alongside far-right French politician Jordan Bardella.
The governing Labour Party and opposition Liberal Democrats said they had reported the claims to London’s Metropolitan Police. Kemi Badenoch, leader of the rival right-leaning Conservative Party, also urged police to investigate, saying that “what I saw on camera looked like illegal activity.”
The Electoral Commission, which oversees U.K. elections, said it was “considering all relevant information, in line with our regulatory remit, and we are in touch with the Met Police.”
Founded in 2018 as the Brexit Party to push for a hard break from the European Union, Reform UK has grown rapidly in membership and support since changing its name in 2021 and honing its anti-establishment, anti-immigration message.
Though it holds just eight of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, it has often led opinion polls and was the big winner in local elections in May, a result that helped spur a panicky Labour Party to replace then-leader Keir Starmer with new Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
But Reform has recently suffered reverses, losing several special elections and facing questions about funding. Farage quit his House of Commons seat in July while facing a parliamentary ethics probe over an undeclared 5 million pound gift he received from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire in 2024, before he was elected to Parliament.
Farage said he would run for reelection and let voters be his judge. He easily won the August election, which was dismissed as a stunt by his critics and boycotted by all the other main parties.
Reform Party Leader Nigel Farage points as he speaks during the Reform party's annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)
French politician Jordan Bardella, President of National Rally, and Reform Party Leader Nigel Farage, right, stand on the podium during the Reform party's annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)
French politician Jordan Bardella, President of National Rally, speaks during the Reform party's annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)
Reform Party Leader Nigel Farage speaks during a special tribute to Ann Widdecombe at the Reform party's annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)
A member wears shoes in Union Flag colours during the Reform party's annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)
A member carrys a hat during the Reform party's annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)
Reform party leader Nigel Farage speaks to the media during the Reform party's annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)
