Marlins’ top prospect Sanchez shelved

Injured Miami Marlins right-hander Sixto Sanchez will undergo season-ending surgery to repair a small tear in his pitching shoulder.

Sanchez, 22, hasn’t pitched this season due to persistent issues with the shoulder.

“Obviously, awful news starting with him and for us as an organization,” Miami manager Don Mattingly said. “I know we’d like to take the conservative route and hope we wouldn’t get to this, but obviously we have.”

Sanchez is rated as the Marlins’ top prospect by MLB Pipeline. He displayed his promise last season by going 3-2 with a 3.46 ERA in seven starts with 33 strikeouts in 39 innings. Sanchez also made two postseason starts last season, going 0-1 with a 4.50 ERA.

The Marlins acquired Sanchez as part of the deal in which they sent catcher J.T. Realmuto to the Philadelphia Phillies prior to the 2019 season.

DODGERS’ BAUER NOT EXPECTED TO PITCH THIS WEEK >> Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts does not expect Trevor Bauer to be pitching for the team later this week when Bauer’s seven-day administrative leave could expire.

“I don’t see that happening,” Roberts said Monday.

Bauer was placed on administrative leave by MLB on Friday while it investigates sexual assault allegations against the Dodgers pitcher.

The leave will theoretically expire this week. MLB can extend it but only with the agreement of the MLB Players Association.

He had the option to appeal MLB’s decision to put him on administrative leave but chose not to. His representatives have said Bauer denies the allegations “in the strongest terms.”

Bauer, the 2020 NL Cy Young Award winner with Cincinnati, is 8-5 with a 2.59 ERA this season,

Without Bauer in their starting rotation, the Dodgers went with a “bullpen day” on Sunday in Washington, using eight pitchers to cover nine innings. Roberts said Monday they will make Wednesday in Miami another bullpen day with Julio Urias (Thursday) and Clayton Kershaw (Friday) each getting an extra day off before their next starts.

— Bill Plunkett CUBS ADD VETERAN CATCHER >> The Chicago Cubs signed veteran catcher Robinson Chirinos for added depth behind starter Willson Contreras.

Contreras ranks second in baseball this season in innings played by a catcher.

Originally signed as an amateur free agent by the Cubs in 2000, Chirinos, 37, has hit .231 with 86 home runs and 269 RBIs over 602 games in a nineyear big-league career spent with Tampa Bay, Texas, Houston and the New York Mets.

Chirinos was hitting .278 with three homers through 13 games for the Yankees’ Triple-A affiliate when he was released on Sunday.