The Cleveland Indians activated pitchers Zach Plesac and Mike Clevinger from the restricted list Friday and optioned them to the team's alternate training site.

Chris Antonetti, the Indians' president of baseball operations, said that both pitchers had driven to Detroit with their playing equipment and met with the teammates ahead of their three-game series against the Tigers this weekend.

Antonetti, manager Terry Francona and general manager Mike Chernoff then met and decided that it was best to option them to the alternate site instead of allowing them to rejoin the team.

"We spent time thinking about what gives our team the best chance to win tonight," Antonetti said, according to Cleveland.com. "We made the determination that it made the most sense to, in order to be the best team we can be, we made the decisions we did to option them to the alternate site."

The pitchers had been placed on the restricted list Tuesday for violating Major League Baseball protocols related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Plesac posted a six-minute video on his Instagram page Thursday to "get out the truth" to fans, saying he and Clevinger were being unfairly portrayed as "bad teammates, bad people and dragged across the mud."

Francona said Friday he was "disappointed" by Plesac's video, while Antonetti said that if Plesac "had a do-over, he may have said things a bit differently,"

Plesac acknowledged breaking team curfew Saturday when he and Clevinger left the team hotel, went out to dinner and socialized with Plesac's friends. Plesac had pitched earlier in the day, getting the win as Cleveland beat the Chicago White Sox.

After the Indians were told by MLB security about the players being out in public, the team got a car service to drive Plesac home so he wouldn't risk being exposed to teammates if he had been infected by the coronavirus.

Clevinger didn't tell the organization he was with Plesac and flew home with the team.

On Tuesday, Indians pitcher Adam Plutko said Plesac and Clevinger had "hurt us bad. They lied to us." On Wednesday, manager Terry Francona said Plesac and Clevinger "got some trust to earn back, and they're gonna have to earn that back."

Plesac said Thursday he and Clevinger were within Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines when they left the team hotel and were never with "more than eight people the entire night."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.