The team hasn't made it official, but Peavy said before Tuesday's game against the Mariners that he's talked to general manager Ken Williams.
"I just saw the doctor, and I think we're going to have to go the conservative route," Peavy said. "Obviously, I wanted to try to push through it and do what we needed to do, but I think we're looking at the disabled list just because of the MRI result and how may exam just went with the doctor."
Peavy was removed from Sunday's game against the Detroit Tigers in the fourth inning. He had been dealing with a sore right groin since his May 30 start at Boston and aggravated it Sunday while trying to cover first base. He continued to pitch, giving up six runs in the inning.
An MRI confirmed he suffered a groin strain.
Peavy thinks his absence could be just a couple of weeks.
The former Cy Young winner was working through an ankle strain when he was traded to the club in 2009. He blew out his latissimus dorsi muscle and needed surgery last season. When rehabbing from that injury this spring he went through a bout of rotator cuff tendinitis.
He was making his fifth start on Sunday since returning from the surgery last July.
Manager Ozzie Guillen said before Monday's game that the White Sox will return to a five-man rotation for as long as Peavy is out. They had been using a six-man rotation since Peavy came off the disabled list on May 11.
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