Darrin Beene is entering his seventh year at The News Tribune, having covered the Tacoma Rainiers in 2005 and Major League Baseball for two years before that. Beene, a former assistant sports editor at The News Tribune, also worked for the Los Angeles Daily News and Los Angeles Times. He lives in the South Sound with his wife and two children.
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Medical director Edward Khalfayan in Seattle examined the pictures of J.J. Putz’s right elbow on Saturday and said Putz has a mild strain of the flexor pronator.
Trainer Rick Griffin described the injury as common among pitchers in spring training and that two or three Mariners have already had this condition and recovered from it. Putz, who is still hoping to be ready for opening day on April 2, will play catch on Tuesday.
“This is great news,” Griffin said. “Sometimes you get MRIs on guys when you don’t think there’s something real wrong and it ends up being a pretty serious thing. It’s always kind of a scary thing to do an MRI on somebody because you never know what you are going to find. This is very, very good news.”
Putz said he wasn’t worried about the results because he has felt pretty good since feeling tightness after throwing a 25-pitch bullpen session on Thursday.
“We were never too worried about it and it was more of a precautionary thing anyway,” said Putz, who was wearing a protective sleeve.
