TAMPA — Josh Donaldson is nursing a sore proper shoulder that he doesn’t imagine will trigger him to miss any time — even in spring coaching.
“I don’t expect to sit out any games,” Donaldson mentioned Monday at Steinbrenner Field. “We ramped up fast [in spring training] and are simply attempting to get forward of it. It’s simply sore.’’
Donaldson has been bothered by leg accidents in every of the previous two seasons and spent time on the IL early in 2018 with proper shoulder irritation, which triggered him to have a dead arm and miss two weeks.
He mentioned Monday he could possibly be again at third base as quickly as Tuesday, when the Yankees play host to the Phillies, when he’ll proceed to listen to what pitchers are doing within the wake of MLB’s renewed give attention to cracking down on the usage of international substances.
Donaldson was outspoken in regards to the topic final season — and referred to as out Gerrit Cole within the course of — and mentioned he was conscious that spin charges across the league started to rise barely within the latter a part of the season after dropping considerably in June and July.
“I noticed, I noticed,’’ Donaldson said. “I saw the spin rates go up, but my eyes are pretty in tune to how pitches are supposed to look, and I could see some things starting to happen again.”
Umpires started checking pitchers once more over the weekend, altering their focus from gloves and belts to the palms, with a purpose of being much less invasive and extra environment friendly find potential unlawful substances.
For now, Donaldson mentioned he’s assured MLB will control the state of affairs and he famous he hasn’t seen something untoward this spring.
“I haven’t seen something out of the bizarre,’’ Donaldson mentioned of Grapefruit League video games.
“We’ll see how it plays out. To me, it’s a non-issue at the moment. I think they’re trying to stay on top of it to make sure it doesn’t become an issue.”
Asked if he thought it had turn into a problem once more by the top of final season, Donaldson mentioned: “I think there might have been some teams that went a little bit more with trying to come up with ways to get around it. It wasn’t all over the place.”
And he has no plans for changing into the focal point on the topic once more.
“After last year, I said my piece and let it go,’’ Donaldson said. “I think they handled it and now they’re doing what they have to do to continue to monitor it. If we get to a point in the year where it’s like it was last year, we’ll deal with it, and you’ll know about it.”
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