Blue Jays’ Rolen Suffers Broken Finger in Practice
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Toronto Blue Jays’ third baseman Scott Rolen, who suffered through a left shoulder injury that required three operations while with the St. Louis Cardinals, is again sidelined and likely to miss opening day due to a multiple injury to his right middle finger while taking grounders on back field on Sunday morning.
Rolen, whose playing weight has mushroomed from a normal 210 lbs to 240 lbs, was taking fielding practice when a hard ground ball hit him on the fingernail prior to the Blue Jays’ exhibition game against the Phillies.
The Yahoo sports recap of Sunday’s game, won by the Phillies by a 15-7 score, reports on the injury;
“It ripped his nail completely off his finger,” general manager J.P. Ricciardi said.
Rolen also broke the bone above the top knuckle on his right middle finger. It’s unclear how long he will be out.
“It’s a non-displaced fracture, which is the good news,” Ricciardi said.
“I’m not a doctor, but the early prognosis is it isn’t going to be six weeks, so I don’t even want to throw a schedule out there. Our best-case scenario is that it’s quick and our worst-case is it isn’t as long as most things we have had to deal with. My instinct is I am preparing for the worst-case scenario but I can say this, he won’t be lost for the year,” Ricciardi said.
It appears that sub Marco Scutaro will fill in at third base while Rolen is out.
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