Follow usSan Diego Padres starting pitcher Joe Musgrove is expected to be unavailable to pitch at the start of the season after he fractured his left big toe.
Joe Musgrove has suffered a fractured toe in a weight room accident, per @BNightengale pic.twitter.com/clSqfKWinb
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) February 28, 2023
A kettlebell slipped out of the pitcher’s hands and fell onto his foot as he was doing an exercise in which he worked on transferring his weight.
“Dropped right on top of it,” Musrgove said. “Yeah, it sucked.”
He revealed that more precise timeline is pending.
“After a couple days, we’ll have a better idea,” Musgrove added. “Got to see how the first couple days go with the swelling.”
A return in April is conceivable.
“It’s gonna be a minimum of a couple weeks before he … starts throwing again,” Padres manager Bob Melvin said. “So we’ll see. It’s kind of tough to forecast when you have a broken toe.
“It’s going to be more about how it heals. Certainly, if it’s a pain tolerance thing, Joe would be one of those guys that would be sooner than later. But obviously we have to evaluate how he’s feeling every day and we’ll see where we go.”
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