Dodgers RHP Tony Gonsolin suffered fairly the fluke harm when he rolled his ankle following a spring training drill last week. Whereas the harm initially wasn’t much of a concern for manager Dave Roberts and the remainder of the employees, it in a short time began to turn out to be worrisome.
Roberts mentioned that Gonsolin likely wouldn’t be ready to go by Opening Day, and wouldn’t present a timetable for his return. He additionally mentioned that RHPs Ryan Pepiot and Michael Grove would be competing for Gonsolin’s spot on the Opening Day roster.
Nonetheless, on Wednesday, Roberts offered a brand new replace on Gonsolin, and this one’s slightly extra optimistic. Roberts mentioned that Gonsolin is doing a little lengthy toss from 120 toes and placing some weight on his left ankle. Nonetheless, he nonetheless didn’t have any replace on a possible timetable for his return (per Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic).
That is positively progress for Gonsolin, and the shortage of timetable isn’t essentially unhealthy information — it simply means Roberts isn’t prepared to provide a agency return date.
It appears seemingly that Gonsolin will miss a minimum of one begin to open the yr (doubtlessly extra) which isn’t ultimate, however between Pepiot and Grove, the Dodgers have greater than sufficient expertise to interchange Gonsolin in the meanwhile.
And with Gonsolin, it’s far more necessary that he’s totally wholesome on the finish of the season, and it doesn’t actually matter if he’s unable to start out the yr on the mound. So, it’s okay for the Dodgers to slowly ramp him up, as there’s no must rush him again for just a few April begins.
We’ll proceed to offer you updates on Gonsolin once we get them, however for now, he’s progressing effectively, and we seemingly gained’t have a agency timetable for a short while longer — however that’s not a trigger for concern proper now.
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