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Padres left-hander Yuki Matsui skilled tightness in his left groin throughout a batting observe session on Thursday and is taken into account everyday, San Diego supervisor Craig Stammen stated Friday.
Matsui needed to halt the session after roughly 20 pitches and the membership subsequently scratched him from his scheduled Sunday spring-training aid look in opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The concern additionally might have an effect on whether or not Matsui can pitch for defending champion Japan within the upcoming World Baseball Classic.
‘We’ve bought to see how he comes out of this time off, after which how he feels (Saturday),’ Stammen instructed reporters. ‘Honestly, I feel it places the WBC in query.’
Japan’s first sport within the match is March 6 in opposition to Chinese Taipei. Stammen stated the choice will most likely be left to the 30-year-old Matsui, a reliever getting into his third season with the Padres.
‘He has bought to make that call,’ Stammen stated. ‘He has bought to have the ability to discuss with the coaches and the (basic supervisor of Team Japan) and see if that is nonetheless an possibility for him. It’s going to be a troublesome highway for him to get wholesome sufficient to be able to pitch within the WBC. But I’ll let him deal with that. …
‘We’ve had inside conversations about it. Ultimately, it is as much as him. We cannot name Team Japan and say, ‘Hey, Yuki shouldn’t be pitching.’ Yuki has to make that call, and I feel he’ll come to a fairly good choice on that.’
Matsui went 3-1 with a 3.98 ERA in 61 aid appearances final season. Overall, he is 7-3 with a 3.86 ERA in 125 appearances for San Diego however has served up 18 homers in 126 innings.
–Field Level Media