Daily News | Five Phillies questions on opening day: Breakout candidates, wait for Harper, Painter debut and more
ARLINGTON, Texas — Used in succession, they are two of the most hopeful words in sports.For six weeks, longer actually, from the dark of winter through the dawn of spring, we obsess over the opening-day roster.
There’s never a shortage of minutiae, right up until the pregame pomp and pageantry and the climactic first pitch.How Bryce Harper planted the flag in Philly and got his friends to follow: ‘Cool to see guys picking the Phillies again’ So, as Trea Turner digs in against Jacob deGrom at 4:05 p.m. Thursday, remember this number: 56. That’s how many players the Phillies used last season and proof of how much can — and most assuredly will — change in the next 186 days.1. When will Andrew Painter pitch again?
But the Phillies remain optimistic that Painter will pitch this season — for good reason, according to an independent doctor., the Phillies noted the location of the sprain . The unusual specificity wasn’t lost on Marcus Rothermich, an orthopedic surgeon at Andrews Sports Medicine in Birmingham, Ala. Rothermich recently studied UCL injuries in Division I college players and found that damage to the proximal portion of the ligament is less likely to result in surgery.
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