TORONTO – Tigers center fielder Parker Meadows keeps inching his way back to health, adding more baseball activities.
He is scheduled to throw to bases from the outfield May 17, which is more important than it might sound.
It’s a big step because the only thing that’s really holding him back has been this nerve waking up and him being able to respond with all the normal activities,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said. “So we’ll see how it is tomorrow.”
Meadows suffered an injury to the musculocutaneous nerve in his right bicep during the first spring training game on a throw. He is in Toronto with the Tigers as they try to ease him back from focusing on getting healthy and get him in a competitive mindset.
“He’s here on this trip, at least the first part of this trip, to get some of that work in a major league stadium, in front of a major league staff, get out of the rehab part of governing things,” Hinch said. “It’s the last step for him to hopefully get him to a rehab assignment soon.”
Meadows is on the 60-day injured list and he’s not eligible to return until May 26.
But there are more steps to come. This is just proving he can handle a rehab assignment.
“He’s been progressing and doing better and better,” Hinch said. “He doesn’t have to be fully 100% back throwing wise to go on a rehab assignment. But I think for his mind for his readiness to go compete on the rehab level, tomorrow will be obviously very important.”
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