Spring Training Week 2 Injury Recap

Spring Training is a great time of year. Unfortunately, sometimes injuries happen and change the landscape of the season.

Here is the Week 1 injury recap.

Opening Day is almost here. Just a couple of more weeks left. I hope you are doing some mock drafts and trying out different strategies to perfect your perfect team. It’s crunch time. However, those last two weeks will be spent watching Spring Training and hoping no more injuries take place. Unfortunately, it’s too late for that. Here is the week 2 injury recap.

Victor Martinez: Injuries keep piling up for the 37-year-old veteran. He suffered a mild left hamstring strain while running out a single on Monday. This will likely cost him at least a week of minor-league games. The Detroit Tigers were thinking about playing Martinez at first base, but that likely won’t happen before Opening Day.

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It’s important to note that it wasn’t the same left knee that bothered him last year. He suffered a torn medial meniscus in his left knee during offseason workouts. He was ready for Opening Day, but reaggravated it and missed a lot of time in May and June. He played in just 120 games and hit 11 home runs, 64 RBI and .245.

Brian McCann: As a catcher, fatigue and injuries happen more frequently. McCann is no stranger to that. He has not played in 150 games in any season in his career. This season may follow that trend. During a Sunday afternoon game, he took a C.C. Sabathia pitch just above his left knee cap. “It’€™s not something we’€™re overly concerned about,” Girardi said in an interview with the New York Daily News. He is officially listed with a knee bruise.

This isn’t something you should be too concerned about. However, with the constant strain catchers put on their knees, it may affect him early in the season. I still have him ranked as my No. 4 catcher entering this season.

Corey Seager: Injuries spare no man, regardless of age. The top shortstop prospect left Friday’s game with slight tightness in the back of his left leg and did not play on Saturday. The MRI showed that he has a sprained left knee and will be out one to two weeks. The season starts in 20 days (as of this writing), so Seager should be ready for Opening Day.

If, for some reason, he isn’t ready by April, Enrique Hernandez will be the starting shortstop. But I don’t think that will be the case. He is still in my top-five shortstops, but his overall rank may drop a round. Keep tabs on Seager over the next week.

Matt Wieters: Another catcher, another injury. He left early during a Grapefruit League game on Saturday as he was throwing to second base. He said he was feeling discomfort in his right elbow. This was cause for concern because he underwent Tommy John surgery in June of 2014. Wieters went for an MRI Monday morning and the results were negative.

The MRI showed no structural damage to the elbow. Great news. The Baltimore Orioles will likely limit his playing time over the next few days. He is a still a top-10 catcher for me. If he felt pain while throwing across the field now, what will it be like in the middle of the season?

Asdrubal Cabrera: This is the only injury with a definitive answer. He left a minor-league game with a sore left knee. He underwent an X-Ray and then flew back to New York for further examination. Mets asst GM JP Ricciardi on Cabrera flying to NY to have knee examined: “I don’t think it’s anything serious,” John Harper of the New York Daily News tweeted out.

News broke Friday that he will be shut down for at least the next two weeks. He has a strained patella tendon and will likely begin the season on the disabled list. As a result, Ruben Tejada and Wilmer Flores with split time at shortstop. There is no timetable for his return and will ease back into baseball activity “€œas tolerated”€ by his knee, according to Steve Adams from MLB Trade Rumors.

Opening Day is April 3. Just over two weeks away. The names on this list have a lot more star power than the ones last week. Let’s keep hoping that the top superstars start the season with a clean bill of health. I’m afraid to see how the rankings look if they don’t.