White Sox Shut Down Prospects Cholowsky and Carlson for Rest of Minor League Season

Nick Cholowsky and Dylan Carlson are done for the Minor League season, per White Sox beat reporter Scott Merkin.

Neither the nature of the situations nor any timetable for return was detailed in the report. Whether either shutdown is injury-related, precautionary, or tied to some other circumstance remains unaddressed in the material — so the usual caution applies before reading too much into the timing.

For Carlson, the news arrives alongside a separate item from the same stretch: a skin infection and related treatment had already been affecting his availability, per earlier reporting. Whether that condition is connected to this shutdown is not stated in the material.

The White Sox farm system has had a busy week on the health front, and this adds two more names to the list of prospects whose development calendars have been interrupted before the Minor League postseason picture clarifies.

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Any update on the nature of either shutdown — and whether either player is expected to be healthy and available for spring — would be the next meaningful data point here.