Joey Wendle's shoulder hurts
Posted by Jason Wojciechowski on March 18, 2017 at 12:46 PM
Joey
Wendle
isn't
able
to
play
right
now
because
of
a
shoulder
problem.
There's
no
actual
damage,
he
says
to
Susan
Slusser,
but
it's
enough
to
keep
him
from
throwing
or
doing
anything
other
than
some
drills.
It's
these
fringe
type
of
players
who
most
cannot
afford
to
get
hurt
in
the
spring—if
he
was
going
to
make
the
roster,
he
was
going
to
have
to
do
some
major
damage
with
the
bat
to
convince
the
team
they'd
rather
keep
him
around
despite
the
fact
that
he
doesn't
play
shortstop,
and
instead
cut
Adam
Rosales
loose.
This
is
particularly
so
given
that
he's
being
chased
from
the
bottom
by
Chad
Pinder,
who
can
make
Rosales
expendable
by
virtue
of
his
positional
flexibility,
and
Franklin
Barreto.
Wendle's
in
a
squeeze,
and
it's
hard
to
see
a
path
toward
playing
time
for
him
even
if
he's
healthy
and
ripping
line
drives
in
spring.