The position of the Phillies Bryce Harper is on the disabled list due……

NEW YORK — Right-hander Dylan Covey was placed on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with lower back pain as part of the playoff-bound Philadelphia Phillies’ flurry of transactions.

The Phillies have recalled right-hander Luis Ortiz from Triple-A Lehigh Valley, where he will start a wild-card series beginning Tuesday. Ortiz will pitch in relief in the opening game of Saturday’s doubleheader against the New York Mets, according to manager Rob Thomson.

Weston Wilson, an infielder/outfielder, was recalled from Lehigh Valley, and infielder Rodolfo Castro was optioned to Philadelphia’s spring training complex.

“Really helps us the next two days with the doubleheader today,” Thomson went on to say.

The Dodgers built a superteam — now can they win it all

They’ve been preparing for this for years. Plans, of course, fall apart all the time, whether they’re for dinner, a meeting, or taking over the entire baseball world by signing the best player anyone has ever seen to the biggest contract anyone has ever received and then chasing that down less than two weeks later with the biggest deal a pitcher has ever gotten. For everything to align so beautifully for the Los Angeles Dodgers — for this superteam to gather and take aim on the game — left baseball fans disoriented and queasy from the magnitude of it all.

First, they signed two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani to a 10-year, $700 million deal. They followed that up on Thursday by awarding $325 million over 12 years to his Japanese counterpart Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who has yet to throw a pitch in the major leagues. Following a brief period of austerity — $50 million in free agency on one-year contracts last winter — the Dodgers spent more than $1 billion on two players. And they’re going to be very, very good in 2024 and beyond.