Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred was asked Monday if the league has decided to shift its stances toward gambling in the wake of Shohei Ohtani's interpreter scandal.

Specifically, prop bets are an area of concern, where fans can bet on individual outcomes from specific events, like a single at-bat.

"We've been on prop bets from the very beginning. When we lobby in states, there's always certain types of bets that we have lobbied against -- I mean, the first pitch of the game, we really don't want that available as a prop bet," Manfred said. 

In the Ohtani scandal, Ippei Mizuhara, the interpreter, was making the illegal bets, Manfred reminded the room: "We haven't had a player that was involved."

"When you have problems in our sport or in other sports, it makes you refocus your efforts but we really do think that our integrity program -- in terms of the monitoring and data available to us -- protect the sport," he said. 

MLB has employed a full-time integrity and compliance team for years. Players are allowed to gamble legally on other sports, but are not permitted to gamble on any diamond sports. 

Manfred also offered up a curious quote regarding legalized MLB gambling. 

"We were kind of dragged into legalized sports betting as a litigant in a case that ended up in the Supreme Court," he said. "Having said that, I recognize -- probably better today than when we were involved in that litigation -- that one of the advantages of legalization is it's a heck of a lot easier to monitor what's going on than it is with an illegal operation." 

Dylan Cease, who was traded to the San Diego Padres in March, has opened up about his final season with the Chicago White Sox.

Cease said his final year with the White Sox "wasn't enjoyable in really any way."

"It's definitely really exciting coming to the ballpark," the right-hander said. "Again with the Sox though, I mean, I really felt like we had that talent. We just didn't put it together."

Cease had a 4.58 ERA in a career-high 33 starts last year, while the White Sox struggled to a 61-101 record.

"I still think that in the minds of a lot of people we had a really good chance to compete," Cease said. "I think we feel like we took a chance to compete and we just didn't put it together. We had a really bad year and it obviously kind of led to the need to kind of redo everything."

The Toronto Blue Jays have reached an agreement with Aaron Sanchez on a Minor League deal, according to a report.

Sanchez returns to the club that drafted him with the 34th overall pick in 2010.

The 31-year-old spent last season in Triple-A between the Minnesota and Arizona systems.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have placed reliever Joe Kelly on the injured list with a posterior strain in his right, throwing shoulder.

He joins relievers Ryan Brasier and Evan Phillips on the IL, all of whom have suffered their injuries over the past six days.

Kelly, 35, has a 4.73 ERA in 15 appearances this season and was last used to record the final out of the seventh inning in Sunday's win over the Atlanta Braves. 

Walker Buehler took the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night for the first time in nearly two years.

The right-hander came away from the outing confident despite allowing three runs on six hits over four innings against the Miami Marlins.

Buehler averaged 96 mph with his fastball and reached 97 and 98 mph on a handful of occasions.

"I think I could be OK if I was 92-94 [mph]; I think I'm confident that way," Buehler said. "But it helps a lot if I can throw 96 or 97. I'm very confident in my ability to do a lot of things with the ball. It's just a lot easier for me to do it the way that I know how to do it. The idea that I can get pretty close to what I used to do, it makes it a little more attainable."

The Cleveland Guardians are expected to call up top prospect Kyle Manzardo, according to a report.

The Guardians acquired Manzardo from the Tampa Bay Rays at least year's trade deadline in exchange for Aaron Civale.

A second-round pick out of Washington State, Manzardo has batted .303/.375/.642 for Triple-A Columbus with nine homers and 10 doubles in 29 games. 

The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the San Francisco Giants 5-4 on Sunday night at Citizens Bank Park.

The Phillies have the best record in baseball at 24-11 entering Monday's action. It is the franchise's best start through 35 games since 1995, when they also went 24-11.

The club's strength this season has been starting pitching. The Phillies' rotation has a 2.65 ERA, the second-best mark in the Major Leagues.

Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Ryan Pepiot left with a lower left leg bruise in the second inning of Sunday's game against the New York Mets after getting hit by a 107.5 mph line drive hit by Starling Marte.

Pepiot immediately fell to the ground but was able to get back up on his own. He left the game after throwing a couple of warmup pitches from the mound.

The Rays said X-rays were negative and Pepiot doesn't expect to miss his next start.

Pepiot is 3-2 with a 3.68 ERA in seven starts. He was acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers last December in a trade where the Rays sent ace Tyler Glasnow to L.A.

Cleveland Guardians left fielder Steven Kwan is headed to the injured list with a hamstring strain, according to multiple reports.

Kwan, who entered the weekend leading the American League in batting, underwent an MRI after leaving Saturday's game with tightness.

Before getting hurt while running down a fly ball, the 26-year-old was batting .353 with a league-leading 47 hits and 28 runs. 

Aaron Judge has accomplished plenty during his nine-year major league career. The five-time All-Star set the American League record for home runs in a season in 2022. He won the AL MVP award. He was named the 16th captain in New York Yankees history.

And not once in his first 869 career games was the 32-year-old slugger ever ejected.

That streak, though, ended Saturday at Yankee Stadium.

Judge was tossed for the first time leading off the seventh inning after arguing a called third strike in the Yankees' eventual 5-3 win over the Detroit Tigers.